Of course if you do not own a high-definition television of a reasonably good size then you probably don't need to upgrade, atleast not for a while until these type of discs become the norm. But if you are the owner of a standard-def television you should be aware of the resolution limitation and not have to ask why other people are interested in higher resolutions.
Please add 'less compression' into the mix. One DVD just seems to have too little capacity to easily fit a movie without compression artefacts. I have got a tiny 4:3 television hooked up to my DVD player (the TV screen is slightly smaller than my 17" notebook screen) and even on that midget I notice artefacts on least half of the movies that I rent.
Music is a stereo format. We only have two ears, so it only makes sense to encode two channels for music. Surround music is a superfluous and unnatural extension of digital music.
Dear Sir,
May I advise you to read The Stereo Soundbook? It is very clear on the differences between 2-channel playback and our auditory system. Yes, you could do with two channels: but only if you limit yourself to Binaural recording which implies Binaural playback: please ditch those loudspeakers now, and limit yourself to headphone listening.
To retain all the spatial qualities inherent in sound, you need exactly four channels (3 for air pressure in three axes, and the fourth for... ahum must be some time ago that I read the book). Luckily there is a recording format, Ambisonics, that does exactly this. There are also very cool looking (and uncool priced) microphones that can catch all spatial information of sound.
Exactly. This is about bathroom sanitizing, not cleaning.
Won't do a damned thing about dirt on the floor or mineral buildup in the shower/toilet; and these are the time consuming aspects of cleaning the bathroom.
Since you can already buy self-cleaning clothing with nano-technology,it really shouldn't be to hard to make a self-cleaning bathroom. Price might be a problem though, these garments are already way beyond my budget.
I bought a T-shirt from the site, probably about 6 years ago. Never re-visited the site, because you couldn't enter dollar bills from Europe. A pity, because at that time I still had to pay for some software, merchandise etc. by sending dollar bills around the globe.
I don't wear the T-shirt very often, but when I do, people always aks me what it is about. And I tell them "Oh, it is this site from long ago that had this cool idea on tracking dollar bills on-line, but that has probably ceased to be years by now". And here they are, alive and kicking! What a pity it is freezing outside...
... wow... brilliant... the Steve must be proud... I'll take only $1 in salary... plus stock and corporate jet, thanks...
Steve did that better: the jet was a gift from Apple, which he the rented back to Apple at market value, to fly him around. You can't become a billionaire without being penny-wise!
However, NTP clients uses multiple servers and uses some fairly advanced correlation algorithms to detect outlyers and bad servers. The client configuration is your responsibility. So configure it to use a set of servers that you believe you can trust.
And this exactly why the default OpenBSD settings connect to 8 different ntp pool servers:
If you are a businessman, have no illusions that your papers and files are safe in your hotel room in China. There have been documented cases of government-sponsored spies following businessmen and bugging or entering their hotel rooms to scour their belongings for useful trade secrets and intellectual property.
We can see clearly that they are pursuing a strategy of mercantilism in trade, to our great disadvantage, thanks to the cluelessness of free-traders in Congress and the White House.
If you are a businessman, have no illusions that your electronic correspondence is safe _anywhere_, thanks to your 'naive' US. Ever heard of the uses of Echelon in your so-called 'free trade'?
Some quotes from the link above:
* In 1990 the German magazine Der Speigel revealed that the NSA had intercepted messages about an impending $200 million deal between Indonesia and the Japanese satellite manufacturer NEC Corp. After President Bush intervened in the negotiations on behalf of American manufacturers, the contract was split between NEC and AT&T.
* In 1994, the CIA and NSA intercepted phone calls between Brazilian officials and the French firm Thomson-CSF about a radar system that the Brazilians wanted to purchase. A US firm, Raytheon, was a competitor as well, and reports prepared from intercepts were forwarded to Raytheon.
* In September 1993, President Clinton asked the CIA to spy on Japanese auto manufacturers that were designing zero-emission cars and to forward that information to the Big Three US car manufacturers: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. In 1995, the New York Times reported that the NSA and the CIA's Tokyo station were involved in providing detailed information to US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor's team of negotiators in Geneva facing Japanese car companies in a trade dispute. Recently, a Japanese newspaper, Mainichi, accused the NSA of continuing to monitor the communications of Japanese companies on behalf of American companies.
* Insight Magazine reported in a series of articles in 1997 that President Clinton ordered the NSA and FBI to mount a massive surveillance operation at the 1993 Asian/Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) hosted in Seattle. One intelligence source for the story related that over 300 hotel rooms had been bugged for the event, which was designed to obtain information regarding oil and hydro-electric deals pending in Vietnam that were passed on to high level Democratic Party contributors competing for the contracts. But foreign companies were not the only losers: when Vietnam expressed interest in purchasing two used 737 freighter aircraft from an American businessman, the deal was scuttled after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown arranged favorable financing for two new 737s from Boeing.
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Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University, for investigating the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule about whether it's safe to eat food that's been dropped on the floor.
The Dutch are notorious for not caring about human rights. Did you know that it's illegal to use racist remarks there? Like, if you use the "N" word in public, they can fine you or throw you in jail.
[Falls into trolls trap] And of course your real American problem is not with the N-word, it's with the *meaning* of the word. You can change words from nigger to black man to afro-american to whatever you like, that does not change anything as long as you don't change the racist stereotypes these words are referring to. Change your society, not your language. Or your candy.
The 100 song limit is not a huge deal [...snap...] It's only a big issue if you don't believe in listening to any song longer than 30 seconds or something.
No speedmetal then, and certainly no Ruoyi Ikeda, who only needs 20 minutes for 99 tracks.
I really don't get the emotional attachment to tools.
Time to read Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things then. Not the best book on the subject, but one of the most convincing. Norman has been stressing functionality all his live, until he found out that people care less about functionality when the product they are using is nice (funny, or beautiful, or in any other way satisfying) enough.
And remember: basically everything you use is a tool, your car, your aplliances, your clothing, your food. And all these items are primarily sold through branding - emotional attachment.
Personally, I believe maps should have their own subsection within Intellectual Property laws. People do need an incentive to make them generally, but with aerial photographs, this is getting easier and easier as time goes on. Blueprinted building and track ways makes this even more trivial, and once you get down to it, a map is just a graphical representation of the factual geography of a location.
The company I work for makes map, usually for speciality needs like large buildings, city parks, musea, airports and public transport. Let me tell you this: this is not easy, and it is not getting easier by using aerial photographs. You really misunderstand map making, there is a whole world of decisions and a whole lot of man-hours between your 'factual geography' and the 'graphical presentation'. Trivial my ass.
NY City Transport has every right to pull that map: if they do not act now, eventually somebody will release the map just like you say: branded with advertising. In which case NY Transport will have spent their money, and somebody else cashes in. If you want to release content, you need a license, it is as simple as that.
Besides, if you're looking for anti-intellectual property types, look in the BSD camp.
Well, it took me some time to understand that sentence. At first I thought these BSD guys/girls were anti-intellectual, and had a lot of property. How odd.
Nowadays, CGI effects are used for the sake of the effect - there's not even any intent to make something look real, the intent is instead to draw attention to the effect.
Just like hard-core cheapies, movies like 'Terminator 2' and 'Jurassic Park' aren't really 'movies' in the standard sense at all. What they really are is half a dozen or so isolated, spectacular scenes -- scenes comprising maybe twenty or thirty minutes of riveting, sensuous payoff -- strung together via another sixty to ninety minutes of flat, dead, and often hilariously insipid narrative.
I was constantly grounding myself with the back of my hand(hurts a lot less than the front of the hand).
That sounds familiar! I used to have a client in the Groot Handelsgebouw in Rotterdam. Every time I visited them I got zapped on opening the hallway door. Sometimes strong enough to draw visible sparks - after I while got used to routinely performing the gesture you describe.
It is probably a combination of:
Airco (dry air)
Carpet (builds up charge)
Soles of your shoes (do not release charge)
I kept opening that door cautiously even after they changed the carpet (or did I change my shoes maybe?) and the static build-up ceased to be so bad. I had become well trained as a Pavlov dog.
Currently downloading the new iTunes at 2KB/sec (this brings back memories of modem days) but I wonder: any improvement in the smart playlists?
I really would like to have functionality such as 'play songs that I added over a year ago, and songs that I added just last week, plus the latest Brainwashed podcast'. Currently the only way to do this is by nesting your smart playlists, for a smart playlist is either 'any of the criteria' or 'all of the criteria'. There is more to Boolean logic Steve!
Oh, and while were on it, album-aware smart playlists would be great too. Just because Apple sells separate tracks doesn't mean that I want half an album chopped off when I limit my playlist in time or space.
Really? In the coverage of Katrina I only saw at most 5-level apartment blocks. Goes to show how television distorts reality
Amsterdam Zuid-Oost (AKA Bijlmer) was on its way to turn into a ghetto a couple of years ago, but that development was stopped by demolishing some of the high-rises and replacing them with residential buildings. (a very controversial decision by the way)
The tragedy of the Bijlmer is that its roots were really Utopian, but the outcome was grim. Just as the flats in the Bijlmer were finished, the original Amsterdam population started to earn a lot more money, and moved to the suburbs. At the same time the oncoming indepency of the former colony Surinam led to a huge influx of poor blacks (with Dutch nationality), that were housed in the Bijlmer. And then it appeared that the strict division between work and living, between car and bicycle (fully funded on the city building ideas of Le Corbusier), made social control nearly impossible and gave a lot of room for petty crime. So the Bijlmer got a bad name, and started on a downward spiral which ended with some areas more or less taken over by junkies. A real pity, for the houses themselves were really nice, and the surroundings were large and green. This was public housing that was meant to elevate people, not to hide them from view.
And yes 'African Dutch'(*) would be similar to 'African Americans', they were shipped on the same ships from the same countries, they just ended up in South America.
(*) I _never_ heard that term being used in the Netherlands. There is a discussion about 'accepting our guilt for the slave trade', a discussion that is very one-sided for only blacks take part, whites just ignore it. But I don't think I ever heard somebody complaining about terminology.
Amsterdam and New Orleans have a lot more in common than just negative elevation - and I'm not referring just to decades of Spanish dominion;)
Big difference: our blacks (can't call them 'African Americans', these are mostly people and their descendants that came from Surinam, plus a lot of Senegalese, Ethopians, Gambian, etc) live in highrises. In case of a mayor flood they will only lose their bicycle paths.
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Of course if you do not own a high-definition television of a reasonably good size then you probably don't need to upgrade, atleast not for a while until these type of discs become the norm. But if you are the owner of a standard-def television you should be aware of the resolution limitation and not have to ask why other people are interested in higher resolutions.
Please add 'less compression' into the mix. One DVD just seems to have too little capacity to easily fit a movie without compression artefacts. I have got a tiny 4:3 television hooked up to my DVD player (the TV screen is slightly smaller than my 17" notebook screen) and even on that midget I notice artefacts on least half of the movies that I rent.
Music is a stereo format. We only have two ears, so it only makes sense to encode two channels for music. Surround music is a superfluous and unnatural extension of digital music.
Dear Sir,
May I advise you to read The Stereo Soundbook? It is very clear on the differences between 2-channel playback and our auditory system. Yes, you could do with two channels: but only if you limit yourself to Binaural recording which implies Binaural playback: please ditch those loudspeakers now, and limit yourself to headphone listening.
To retain all the spatial qualities inherent in sound, you need exactly four channels (3 for air pressure in three axes, and the fourth for... ahum must be some time ago that I read the book). Luckily there is a recording format, Ambisonics, that does exactly this. There are also very cool looking (and uncool priced) microphones that can catch all spatial information of sound.
Since you can already buy self-cleaning clothing with nano-technology ,it really shouldn't be to hard to make a self-cleaning bathroom. Price might be a problem though, these garments are already way beyond my budget.
I bought a T-shirt from the site, probably about 6 years ago. Never re-visited the site, because you couldn't enter dollar bills from Europe. A pity, because at that time I still had to pay for some software, merchandise etc. by sending dollar bills around the globe.
I don't wear the T-shirt very often, but when I do, people always aks me what it is about. And I tell them "Oh, it is this site from long ago that had this cool idea on tracking dollar bills on-line, but that has probably ceased to be years by now". And here they are, alive and kicking! What a pity it is freezing outside...
Steve did that better: the jet was a gift from Apple, which he the rented back to Apple at market value, to fly him around. You can't become a billionaire without being penny-wise!
Bloopers like this make me check the calender, sounds like perfect April 1st Slashdot news.
And this exactly why the default OpenBSD settings connect to 8 different ntp pool servers:
If you are a businessman, have no illusions that your papers and files are safe in your hotel room in China. There have been documented cases of government-sponsored spies following businessmen and bugging or entering their hotel rooms to scour their belongings for useful trade secrets and intellectual property.
We can see clearly that they are pursuing a strategy of mercantilism in trade, to our great disadvantage, thanks to the cluelessness of free-traders in Congress and the White House.
If you are a businessman, have no illusions that your electronic correspondence is safe _anywhere_, thanks to your 'naive' US. Ever heard of the uses of Echelon in your so-called 'free trade'?
Some quotes from the link above:
"Yes, I'm paranoid - But am I paranoid enough?"
The 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
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Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University, for investigating the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule about whether it's safe to eat food that's been dropped on the floor.
It was not until the end of 38 that Hitler started doing what he is known for today.
By the end of 38 my great-grandfather had already spent over 5 years in a german prison.
Sure, then either the Dutch state must be filthy rich or the jails must be awfully full: 443.000 Neger (Nigger/Negroe) articles.
[Falls into trolls trap] And of course your real American problem is not with the N-word, it's with the *meaning* of the word. You can change words from nigger to black man to afro-american to whatever you like, that does not change anything as long as you don't change the racist stereotypes these words are referring to. Change your society, not your language. Or your candy.
Have I got news for you.
No speedmetal then, and certainly no Ruoyi Ikeda, who only needs 20 minutes for 99 tracks.
Time to read Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things then. Not the best book on the subject, but one of the most convincing. Norman has been stressing functionality all his live, until he found out that people care less about functionality when the product they are using is nice (funny, or beautiful, or in any other way satisfying) enough.
And remember: basically everything you use is a tool, your car, your aplliances, your clothing, your food. And all these items are primarily sold through branding - emotional attachment.
The company I work for makes map, usually for speciality needs like large buildings, city parks, musea, airports and public transport. Let me tell you this: this is not easy, and it is not getting easier by using aerial photographs. You really misunderstand map making, there is a whole world of decisions and a whole lot of man-hours between your 'factual geography' and the 'graphical presentation'. Trivial my ass.
NY City Transport has every right to pull that map: if they do not act now, eventually somebody will release the map just like you say: branded with advertising. In which case NY Transport will have spent their money, and somebody else cashes in. If you want to release content, you need a license, it is as simple as that.
Well, it took me some time to understand that sentence. At first I thought these BSD guys/girls were anti-intellectual, and had a lot of property. How odd.
Ignorant me. Makes note: Must read more comic strips.
I think you have been listening to Nurse With Wound a wee bit too long.
Nowadays, CGI effects are used for the sake of the effect - there's not even any intent to make something look real, the intent is instead to draw attention to the effect.
David Foster Wallace, F/X Porn.That sounds familiar! I used to have a client in the Groot Handelsgebouw in Rotterdam. Every time I visited them I got zapped on opening the hallway door. Sometimes strong enough to draw visible sparks - after I while got used to routinely performing the gesture you describe.
It is probably a combination of: Airco (dry air) Carpet (builds up charge) Soles of your shoes (do not release charge)
I kept opening that door cautiously even after they changed the carpet (or did I change my shoes maybe?) and the static build-up ceased to be so bad. I had become well trained as a Pavlov dog.
Currently downloading the new iTunes at 2KB/sec (this brings back memories of modem days) but I wonder: any improvement in the smart playlists?
I really would like to have functionality such as 'play songs that I added over a year ago, and songs that I added just last week, plus the latest Brainwashed podcast'. Currently the only way to do this is by nesting your smart playlists, for a smart playlist is either 'any of the criteria' or 'all of the criteria'. There is more to Boolean logic Steve!
Oh, and while were on it, album-aware smart playlists would be great too. Just because Apple sells separate tracks doesn't mean that I want half an album chopped off when I limit my playlist in time or space.
Really? In the coverage of Katrina I only saw at most 5-level apartment blocks. Goes to show how television distorts reality
Amsterdam Zuid-Oost (AKA Bijlmer) was on its way to turn into a ghetto a couple of years ago, but that development was stopped by demolishing some of the high-rises and replacing them with residential buildings. (a very controversial decision by the way)
The tragedy of the Bijlmer is that its roots were really Utopian, but the outcome was grim. Just as the flats in the Bijlmer were finished, the original Amsterdam population started to earn a lot more money, and moved to the suburbs. At the same time the oncoming indepency of the former colony Surinam led to a huge influx of poor blacks (with Dutch nationality), that were housed in the Bijlmer. And then it appeared that the strict division between work and living, between car and bicycle (fully funded on the city building ideas of Le Corbusier), made social control nearly impossible and gave a lot of room for petty crime. So the Bijlmer got a bad name, and started on a downward spiral which ended with some areas more or less taken over by junkies. A real pity, for the houses themselves were really nice, and the surroundings were large and green. This was public housing that was meant to elevate people, not to hide them from view.
And yes 'African Dutch'(*) would be similar to 'African Americans', they were shipped on the same ships from the same countries, they just ended up in South America.
(*) I _never_ heard that term being used in the Netherlands. There is a discussion about 'accepting our guilt for the slave trade', a discussion that is very one-sided for only blacks take part, whites just ignore it. But I don't think I ever heard somebody complaining about terminology.
Sure you can: the French built New Orleans to begin with.
Big difference: our blacks (can't call them 'African Americans', these are mostly people and their descendants that came from Surinam, plus a lot of Senegalese, Ethopians, Gambian, etc) live in highrises. In case of a mayor flood they will only lose their bicycle paths.