picky picky:-)
these resolutions come in certain ranges and things are not exact of course. just finding the closest one.
also as it turns out horizontal resolution is not an exact science because it's not actually pixelated but is a continuous signal with finite bandwidth. and odd details of interlacing adds some wobblyness to things too.
BZZZT sorry sir but you cant put 10 pounds of dog poop in a 5 pound bag.
You get more than roughly 360,000 pixels out of a DVD. Therefore no matter how hard you try you can't increase the resolution. You can have an infinitely dense pixel array but there's not going to be more than 360,000 pixels worth of information there. The only thing interpolation can do is smooth it. But to smooth it in space requires it also to smooth it in time (because of interlacing). As result interpolation ALWAYS neccessarily must decrease the resolution. this is just math. it's not something to argue about. you cant make something blurry and keep the same resolution. period.
So learn some information theory and convolution theory and come back later. thank you for playing.
By the way If you like blurry then you can achieve a similar result just by defocusing the projector. It's just a different kind of interpolation that does not blur in time. Maybe you don't like that? well either way more pixels != more resulution. But more pixels+interpolation means blurring.
You can get a great digital projector, receiver, speakers, and DVD player off of eBay, all reliable Japanese products, for about $1,000.
Why enforce unreasonable requirements upon the system such as "it must be a PC."?
this has a really simple techincal answer. DVD players, by law, cannot put out digital quality signals. Thus S-video is much lower resolution than RGB or DVI. S video has the resolution of a TV set and DVDs have about 4 to 16 times more infomration content that you cant access except through your PC.
The workaround quasi solution is component video output. It's still a notch down from RGB but it's better than S-video. Cheap DVD players and DLP projectors don't have these.
A DVD does not contain more information content than the number of pixels on an SVGA screen. An HD-TV broadcast contians less information than an XGA screen. Thus going to higher resolution screens not only does not increase performance. Actaully the reverse is true it degrades it. When you go to higher resolution projectors you either have to use a subset of their pixels, which proportioanlly throws away the majority of the lumens, or you have put up with the ugly and noticable artifacts of interpolation (jagged edges on fast moving high contrast edges, and the poor rendering of fog and smoke). Additionally, all else being equal, denser pixel projectors waste more of the surface area to the dead zones around the pixels and also tend to have more variation and lower contrast.
Now there are two important exceptions to the above statements. First, generally all else is not equal. When you pay buttwads more for a high end high pixel projector you almost always get upgraded components everywhere else. Better color control, better contract control, better uniformity, better interpolation,.... thus to comapre a cheap SVGA to one of the higher end machines is not an even handed comparison that will allow you compare the effects of resolution alone. Second, while the information content of a DVD is indeed equal to the number of pixels on a 800x600 projector, the aspect ratio is not. Thus the optimal projector for 16x9 movies is WGA and the optimal projector for 4x3 is SVGA.
My guess is that most people are best off buying a WGA projector for two reasons, first it's optimal for wide screen movies and adequate for full frame movies. But more importantly, manufacturers are not treating WGA as a low-end product like they do SVGA. They may be putting in the higher wuality components into their WGA and WXGA projectors. And it's those components, not the useless improved resolution that you want to buy.
Fo me all I'm interested in are DVDs but many folks are keen on HD (By the time HD becomes mainstream your current pojector will have bunred out anyhow so need to look ahead in your current purchase). And for them a WXGA or XGA projector is the right choice. For everyone else WGA or SVGA.
Things to look for in the following order of importance are 0) DLP 1) quiet 2) RGB or digital inputs 3) contrast 4) lumens 5) darkness control 6) color fidelity 7) optical, not digital keystone correction 8) a short throw range for most people's rooms also reuires a sharp offest angle (see keystone correction above) 9) some zoom 10) ability to work upsidedown
If you want to disagree with me just fine but make sure you dont claim there is actually more information on a DVD than an SVGA/WGA can support
I had to watch it twice an then flip thought the scenes over and over. I never did figure all of it out so I had to cruise some web discussions. Some pretty interesting physical interpretations of the movie. My favorite thing about it is that the time travel scheme actually would work without paradoxes. This is because this same scheme happens in reality, albeit on microsopic quantum scales. Then a photon splits into matter and antimatter and then recombine to form a photon again one can think of the anti-matter as just matter going back in time to it's origin. so you can time travel if you arrange the paths so you dont overlap and you meet at the point of origin.
AP reports online digital music sales have tripled in the last year, accounting for over 6% of sales. But there's more than meets the eye here. Profit margins on on-line digital sales are rumored to be much higher so that is much more than 6% of profits. Not only did this more than offset the decline in physical unit sales but, more importantly physical unit sales have also declined in price as well as volume, further increasing the advantages of on-line digital sales (6% gross price decline, 3% volume decline). Note that a 6% gross price decilne means an even larger profit margin decline assuming manufacturing, distribution and marketing costs are not decliniing.
The article further points out that there are 500 million iTunes songs sold and 22 million ipods sold. Averaging this gives one only 23 itunes sold per iPod: thus one can hardly say that iTunes sales are the motivating factor for iPod sales but one could neccessarily say the reverse. People are clearly filling those Ipods with their purchased CDs, borrowed and pirated music. The record industry rants about selling music too cheap and iPods leveraging their IP for sales would seem dubious.
I don't use windows, but it sounds like this is saying there's no current way to print a PDF document in windows from every application without some third party add-on? Is that really true?
I'm in disbelief! for years now I've been asking people to "send me a PDF" of their word or whatever document assuming Windows had this like. Apparently that must be difficult to do on windows?
Amazing. Well we mac users can feel smug about something else now. Welcome to the modern age windows users. heh.
I see I have ten seeds in 30 peers. My DSL connection is typcially rated at 650Kb.sec up 280Kb.sec down. I'm seeing about 6 to 14KiB/sec torrent download rate with an average near 9KiB, and 12 to 50 KiB/sec upload rate with an average near 39KiB.
when I look at my internet connection's packets I see lower values: 3 to 8 KB/sev and 8 to 50KB/sec
I'm about 30 minutes into what looks like a 13 hours download.
is that good for the download rate? I would have expected more upload rate, higher than or at least on par with the upload rate.
is the apparent difference bwteen torrents KiB and the KB on my internet something to do with headers and compression?
Thank you for all of us. really. I do a awful lot of work on this issue but I not the kind who can afford to go to jail over it. I'm so glad there are people like you to make up for me.
Canadians have different kind of election system as do all parlimentary countires. Elecitons are normally aperiodic (due to no-confidence votes) and thus the election ballots are ususally just for a single branch of goverment at a time. There are also fewer elected offices. IN the US it is common to vote for things like "county surveyor" and in some places the dog catcher. there are fewer ballot initatives and bond issues. As a result ballots are simpler.
In the US there are also many places of overlapping jursidictions so that any one person voting might possibly be subject to different scha ool disticts, counties, cities, legislative, congressional districts and thus need a different paper ballot. Counting different ballots by hand can be problematic.
The trend in the US is to go to early voting and to allow voting outside your own precint. That increases the number of votes in any give precint beyond that which a few eleciton judges can count in one night. It creates security issues. and it increases the diversity of the ballot styles. it also increases the opportunity and value for ballot maipulation since one person can now affect a lot of votes.
Handicap access raises issues for some forms of paper ballots. For simple ones like in cananada where relatively few choices are presented, simple methods such as tactile ballot or cut-away templates suffice. For intricate US style ballots those can become more difficult.
First the OVC system is a hybrid. It has paper ballots and touchscreen entry and hand counting and electronic counting. The cool thing is they pull all of that off in way that is simple and workable, not layers of complexity.
Second, this hybrid is more secure than either paper ballots or electronic voting alone.
Third it's potentially very cheap. Various bussiness models can be applied. One is that cheap commodity hardware is used and the computers given away to schools after every election. That ways maintainence, storage and physical security costs are minimized. Another possible bussniess model is that OVC becomes a standard and certifies vendors to that standard. They can only use OVC software, which is open source. THus no funny bussiness but professionally run elections and reusable hardware. Of course states could own all their own hardware and conduct their own election set-ups just like they do now so there's no need for a radical bussiness plan.
since the hardware is very cheap, states can have excess numbers of voting stations per precint to elminate lines. when heavy turn-out is expected adding more stations is not a problem.
It can be booted clean from CD. so there are fewer risks with physcial security and the software is immutable and verifiable afterwards (compared to harddisk or firmware in which validating what software actually ran is difficult to prove later).
The OVC systems has many of the virtues of touchscreen voting such as handicapped and language assitance. It also can handle multiple jursidictions in a single precint
OVC is techincally not a DRE system. it's a ballot printer system
The OVC system also avoids the major pitfalls most other electronic systems have namely: 1) no roll fed paper ballots under glass. OVC uses cut sheets the voter puts in the ballot box 2) standalone ballot bar code readers are available and separate from the vote casting machine. this allows voters to independently validate the bar code or have it readback to them in audio mode in a way that prevents any machine collusion 3) standalone ballot counters. again zero collusion with the ballot printer.
If something goes wrong and the machine loses the votes, the paper ballots still function as aperfect record of the vote.
the OVC system has many exingencies worked out like what happens if a voter flees. What happens if the number of electronic ballots differed from the number of paper. and many others. Election's expert Doug Jones consulted on many of these features.
The basic process is this. Vote on the terminal and it prints our a single sheet ballot with an edge bar code and a summary of all your choices in human readable form. if you don't like it just discard the ballot and vote again. Since there's no "terminal activation" tokens there's no hassle to vote over. When you have a ballot on paper that you like you can optionally validate the bar code with a wand which will read it back to you. then you place it in the ballot box and go get drunk.
when the polls close the election judges open the sealed box. then in the presence of witnesses they shuffle all the ballots, permenantly destroying any serial vote order. Next they wand each ballot and a computer reads it in, diplays the english version of the ballot on screen, and correlates that vote with the previously recorded electronic record. There must be an electronic record for every ballot to prevent stuffing the ballot box. the election judge can spot check as many screen texts with the printed texts as they want so there is now a second check on the bar codes. The existance of even a single discrepancy in the bar code and the printed text would signify a software malfunction and appropriate steps taken. The bar code adds a number of secure features. First it can be made hard to forge and possibly contain signaures. Second it can contain checksums and handshaking codes to assure the code was read correctly (unlike a conventional hand marked paper ba
First I agree with you that everything following Wickard V. Fillburn is a horible abuse of Federal Govenement authority. (of course states could also make the same laws, and whether that was abuse woudl depend upon the state constitution). But the fact is they have that right.
consumer rights come from three course: common law, legislation, and regulatory policy. So you have some standard rights and epxectations. But Congress is allowed to make a law that says No, you dont have this or that consumer right.
Case I: You buy a movie theater ticket. You have purchased the avility to view the movie. But because you can't make it to the theater that night, you instead set up a video camera on your seat, so you can time shift your viewing of the movie. Are you entitled to do that? No.
Case II: You buy some ephedrine, some lithuim batteries, some drano and some Acetone. They are your property to use as you wish. You decide to whip up a batch of Crack. Are you allowed to do this? NO.
Case III: You own your car. You decide it would be cool to remove the windshield wipers and seatbelts. Can you do that? only if you don't put it on the road or try to sell it for such a use.
case IV: you own some swapland. You want to drain it. can you do that? Not if it's considered a protected wetland.
case V: you own a CD. You trade it to someone else for another CD. Can you do that. Yes. You own a peice of DRM'd music for which you contracted to play on a single computer. Can you sell that to someone else. NO. you contracted for that.
In fact that is the single most compelling argument both for and against DRM. If you are forced to contract for something in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion, there is precedent in some situations that says you cannot be forced to contract to give up consumer rights. However if you are offered something at a lower price in return for giving up a right then you can lose a standard right. Thus one thing you could ask is the folloowing. When you bought the DRM'd music, did you ask if you could pay more and not have it DRM'd. If not then tough luck, you accepted the contract. If so, and were refused, you might just barely possibly have a case.
Case VI: Your a farmer and the govenement tells you you can grow so many bushells on your land. You grow more but you plan to use them only for internal consumption on the property. Can you do that? seems like you could but infact you can't (read the case of Wicard Wheat). That case in fact IS the entire basis of 90% of federal law. The goverment has the right to regulate how anything is consumed or used if there is even tangentially some affect on interstate commerce. in the case of Wickard, the Supreme court ruled that if he had not grown the crops for his own use, he might possibly have purhcased them on the open market.
The point is that No you can't do what you please even if you own property. Don't like that? change 200 Years of case law, otherwise stop whining.
Look at the photos of it. Especially look at the side and bottom views.
the controlls look pretty fiddley. I operate my lanyad ipod worn under my shirt while bike riding or skiing. I dont think I could quickly operate those teeny controls. The volume knob looks especially crappy. All of them look like great pocket lint collectors.
Look at the seems. Even in the demo-model they can't get them to line up! this is chunk of crap.
And then where's the connectivity? just a couple jacks.
It's all exactly like Steve Jobs predicted: cramming a screen and controls on to a small device compromises the usefulness of both. Here's the concrete realization of something with a uselessly small screen and awful human interface.
Okay this is such a crybaby story. Why does the Motherhood of these women matter? Why does the marital status of these women matter. Are they alledging these are defenseless creatures or something. Oh PLease.
It's okay to hate the RIAA. But demonizing them for kicking elf, stepping on spiders, and scaring babies is just taking it too far.
Enough with this crap.
Seriously. This is enough to make me believe all the anti-RIAA propaganda we read here is just as much hot air as this story. I'm beggining to think if this is the best people can do to smear the RIAA that maybe I should consider if the RIAA has a valid point. Hmmm maybe they do since the people opposing them are apparently excitable children.
But in the interests of discsussion: Okay let me rephrase my point using your termniology: a "wire" is a "waveguide" that supports too few modes or is too dispersive to support clean modulation.
Furthermore if the impedance is varies quickly with frequency (or is otherwise dispersive) then the end termination will be essentially impossible to match. You will get ringing that will prevent clean modulation. Hence termination prevents clean modulation.
In my experience it's really bad termination that leads to poor modulation in most cases. But that can simply arrise from dispersive or variable impedances. In otherwords from something that would not usefully be called a "waveguide" but might be called a "wire". ( I note that One way to look at dispersion is to think of it as distributed bad termination so really it's all "bad termination" if you want to look at it that way)
Distributing your clock with photons imples you have a photon wave guide. If you are going to build a photon wave guide then why not build an electrical wave guide. Electrical wave guides, like for example coax cable, have wave velocities that are faster than light in glass, so they would logically be even better. And you dont' need any special materials like you would for optical wave guides.
The problem might be that usually wave guides have to be the size of the wavelength to work right. ghz wavelength are larger than the chip. Thus you get forced towards the optical region by this considerarion.
But you can beat this two ways.
1) use negative index of refraction materials. Then the waveguide can be smaller than the wave length
2) use near field waveguides with amplification. When the wavelength is a lot larger than the waveguide then the wave becomes evanscent (decaying). So it can't propagate very far. But hey, that's okay because the chip is not very wide either, so we can tolerate some loss of signal. And we could toss in some amplification to offset it.
okay folks repeat after me. ON-star is a service the user signs up and pays for. it is not forced on you. there are no privacy issues, stop with the knee jerk response that big brother watching is bad. You are paying big brother to watch you because you want it!!!! Why is this so hard to grasp. Is everyone here a 17 year old or something?
Will the Nano be upgradable? that is, was the chip oldered in or is in in there in a stadard flash drive socket. If so did apple or the CPU maker, cripple the nano's address range? if not buy that nano now and upgrade it next year.
On the other hand the Nano sells for about $30 bucks more than the retail price of the 4Gb NAND chip. Son unless you can buy it below wholesale like apple, you'll be better off buying a new Nano when the 32 GB ones roll out.
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picky picky :-)
these resolutions come in certain ranges and things are not exact of course. just finding the closest one.
also as it turns out horizontal resolution is not an exact science because it's not actually pixelated but is a continuous signal with finite bandwidth. and odd details of interlacing adds some wobblyness to things too.
BZZZT sorry sir but you cant put 10 pounds of dog poop in a 5 pound bag.
You get more than roughly 360,000 pixels out of a DVD. Therefore no matter how hard you try you can't increase the resolution. You can have an infinitely dense pixel array but there's not going to be more than 360,000 pixels worth of information there. The only thing interpolation can do is smooth it. But to smooth it in space requires it also to smooth it in time (because of interlacing). As result interpolation ALWAYS neccessarily must decrease the resolution. this is just math. it's not something to argue about. you cant make something blurry and keep the same resolution. period.
So learn some information theory and convolution theory and come back later.
thank you for playing.
By the way If you like blurry then you can achieve a similar result just by defocusing the projector. It's just a different kind of interpolation that does not blur in time. Maybe you don't like that? well either way more pixels != more resulution. But more pixels+interpolation means blurring.
You can get a great digital projector, receiver, speakers, and DVD player off of eBay, all reliable Japanese products, for about $1,000.
Why enforce unreasonable requirements upon the system such as "it must be a PC."?
this has a really simple techincal answer. DVD players, by law, cannot put out digital quality signals. Thus S-video is much lower resolution than RGB or DVI. S video has the resolution of a TV set and DVDs have about 4 to 16 times more infomration content that you cant access except through your PC.
The workaround quasi solution is component video output. It's still a notch down from RGB but it's better than S-video. Cheap DVD players and DLP projectors don't have these.
A DVD does not contain more information content than the number of pixels on an SVGA screen. An HD-TV broadcast contians less information than an XGA screen. Thus going to higher resolution screens not only does not increase performance. Actaully the reverse is true it degrades it. When you go to higher resolution projectors you either have to use a subset of their pixels, which proportioanlly throws away the majority of the lumens, or you have put up with the ugly and noticable artifacts of interpolation (jagged edges on fast moving high contrast edges, and the poor rendering of fog and smoke). Additionally, all else being equal, denser pixel projectors waste more of the surface area to the dead zones around the pixels and also tend to have more variation and lower contrast.
.... thus to comapre a cheap SVGA to one of the higher end machines is not an even handed comparison that will allow you compare the effects of resolution alone. Second, while the information content of a DVD is indeed equal to the number of pixels on a 800x600 projector, the aspect ratio is not. Thus the optimal projector for 16x9 movies is WGA and the optimal projector for 4x3 is SVGA.
Now there are two important exceptions to the above statements. First, generally all else is not equal. When you pay buttwads more for a high end high pixel projector you almost always get upgraded components everywhere else. Better color control, better contract control, better uniformity, better interpolation,
My guess is that most people are best off buying a WGA projector for two reasons, first it's optimal for wide screen movies and adequate for full frame movies. But more importantly, manufacturers are not treating WGA as a low-end product like they do SVGA. They may be putting in the higher wuality components into their WGA and WXGA projectors. And it's those components, not the useless improved resolution that you want to buy.
Fo me all I'm interested in are DVDs but many folks are keen on HD (By the time HD becomes mainstream your current pojector will have bunred out anyhow so need to look ahead in your current purchase). And for them a WXGA or XGA projector is the right choice. For everyone else WGA or SVGA.
Things to look for in the following order of importance are 0) DLP 1) quiet 2) RGB or digital inputs 3) contrast 4) lumens 5) darkness control 6) color fidelity 7) optical, not digital keystone correction 8) a short throw range for most people's rooms also reuires a sharp offest angle (see keystone correction above) 9) some zoom 10) ability to work upsidedown
If you want to disagree with me just fine but make sure you dont claim there is actually more information on a DVD than an SVGA/WGA can support
I had to watch it twice an then flip thought the scenes over and over. I never did figure all of it out so I had to cruise some web discussions. Some pretty interesting physical interpretations of the movie. My favorite thing about it is that the time travel scheme actually would work without paradoxes. This is because this same scheme happens in reality, albeit on microsopic quantum scales. Then a photon splits into matter and antimatter and then recombine to form a photon again one can think of the anti-matter as just matter going back in time to it's origin. so you can time travel if you arrange the paths so you dont overlap and you meet at the point of origin.
Insightful parent.
AP reports online digital music sales have tripled in the last year, accounting for over 6% of sales. But there's more than meets the eye here. Profit margins on on-line digital sales are rumored to be much higher so that is much more than 6% of profits. Not only did this more than offset the decline in physical unit sales but, more importantly physical unit sales have also declined in price as well as volume, further increasing the advantages of on-line digital sales (6% gross price decline, 3% volume decline). Note that a 6% gross price decilne means an even larger profit margin decline assuming manufacturing, distribution and marketing costs are not decliniing.
The article further points out that there are 500 million iTunes songs sold and 22 million ipods sold. Averaging this gives one only 23 itunes sold per iPod: thus one can hardly say that iTunes sales are the motivating factor for iPod sales but one could neccessarily say the reverse. People are clearly filling those Ipods with their purchased CDs, borrowed and pirated music. The record industry rants about selling music too cheap and iPods leveraging their IP for sales would seem dubious.
I don't use windows, but it sounds like this is saying there's no current way to print a PDF document in windows from every application without some third party add-on? Is that really true?
I'm in disbelief! for years now I've been asking people to "send me a PDF" of their word or whatever document assuming Windows had this like. Apparently that must be difficult to do on windows?
Amazing. Well we mac users can feel smug about something else now. Welcome to the modern age windows users. heh.
I see I have ten seeds in 30 peers. My DSL connection is typcially rated at 650Kb.sec up 280Kb.sec down. I'm seeing about 6 to 14KiB/sec torrent download rate with an average near 9KiB, and 12 to 50 KiB/sec upload rate with an average near 39KiB.
when I look at my internet connection's packets I see lower values: 3 to 8 KB/sev and 8 to 50KB/sec
I'm about 30 minutes into what looks like a 13 hours download.
is that good for the download rate? I would have expected more upload rate, higher than or at least on par with the upload rate.
is the apparent difference bwteen torrents KiB and the KB on my internet something to do with headers and compression?
Thank you for all of us. really. I do a awful lot of work on this issue but I not the kind who can afford to go to jail over it. I'm so glad there are people like you to make up for me.
Canadians have different kind of election system as do all parlimentary countires. Elecitons are normally aperiodic (due to no-confidence votes) and thus the election ballots are ususally just for a single branch of goverment at a time. There are also fewer elected offices. IN the US it is common to vote for things like "county surveyor" and in some places the dog catcher. there are fewer ballot initatives and bond issues. As a result ballots are simpler.
In the US there are also many places of overlapping jursidictions so that any one person voting might possibly be subject to different scha ool disticts, counties, cities, legislative, congressional districts and thus need a different paper ballot. Counting different ballots by hand can be problematic.
The trend in the US is to go to early voting and to allow voting outside your own precint. That increases the number of votes in any give precint beyond that which a few eleciton judges can count in one night. It creates security issues. and it increases the diversity of the ballot styles. it also increases the opportunity and value for ballot maipulation since one person can now affect a lot of votes.
Handicap access raises issues for some forms of paper ballots. For simple ones like in cananada where relatively few choices are presented, simple methods such as tactile ballot or cut-away templates suffice. For intricate US style ballots those can become more difficult.
First the OVC system is a hybrid. It has paper ballots and touchscreen entry and hand counting and electronic counting. The cool thing is they pull all of that off in way that is simple and workable, not layers of complexity.
Second, this hybrid is more secure than either paper ballots or electronic voting alone.
Third it's potentially very cheap. Various bussiness models can be applied. One is that cheap commodity hardware is used and the computers given away to schools after every election. That ways maintainence, storage and physical security costs are minimized. Another possible bussniess model is that OVC becomes a standard and certifies vendors to that standard. They can only use OVC software, which is open source. THus no funny bussiness but professionally run elections and reusable hardware. Of course states could own all their own hardware and conduct their own election set-ups just like they do now so there's no need for a radical bussiness plan.
since the hardware is very cheap, states can have excess numbers of voting stations per precint to elminate lines. when heavy turn-out is expected adding more stations is not a problem.
It can be booted clean from CD. so there are fewer risks with physcial security and the software is immutable and verifiable afterwards (compared to harddisk or firmware in which validating what software actually ran is difficult to prove later).
The OVC systems has many of the virtues of touchscreen voting such as handicapped and language assitance. It also can handle multiple jursidictions in a single precint
OVC is techincally not a DRE system. it's a ballot printer system
The OVC system also avoids the major pitfalls most other electronic systems have namely:
1) no roll fed paper ballots under glass. OVC uses cut sheets the voter puts in the ballot box
2) standalone ballot bar code readers are available and separate from the vote casting machine. this allows voters to independently validate the bar code or have it readback to them in audio mode in a way that prevents any machine collusion
3) standalone ballot counters. again zero collusion with the ballot printer.
If something goes wrong and the machine loses the votes, the paper ballots still function as aperfect record of the vote.
the OVC system has many exingencies worked out like what happens if a voter flees. What happens if the number of electronic ballots differed from the number of paper. and many others. Election's expert Doug Jones consulted on many of these features.
The basic process is this. Vote on the terminal and it prints our a single sheet ballot with an edge bar code and a summary of all your choices in human readable form. if you don't like it just discard the ballot and vote again. Since there's no "terminal activation" tokens there's no hassle to vote over. When you have a ballot on paper that you like you can optionally validate the bar code with a wand which will read it back to you. then you place it in the ballot box and go get drunk.
when the polls close the election judges open the sealed box. then in the presence of witnesses they shuffle all the ballots, permenantly destroying any serial vote order. Next they wand each ballot and a computer reads it in, diplays the english version of the ballot on screen, and correlates that vote with the previously recorded electronic record. There must be an electronic record for every ballot to prevent stuffing the ballot box. the election judge can spot check as many screen texts with the printed texts as they want so there is now a second check on the bar codes. The existance of even a single discrepancy in the bar code and the printed text would signify a software malfunction and appropriate steps taken. The bar code adds a number of secure features. First it can be made hard to forge and possibly contain signaures. Second it can contain checksums and handshaking codes to assure the code was read correctly (unlike a conventional hand marked paper ba
I believe RADO uses Saphire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
First I agree with you that everything following Wickard V. Fillburn is a horible abuse of Federal Govenement authority. (of course states could also make the same laws, and whether that was abuse woudl depend upon the state constitution). But the fact is they have that right.
consumer rights come from three course: common law, legislation, and regulatory policy. So you have some standard rights and epxectations. But Congress is allowed to make a law that says No, you dont have this or that consumer right.
You don't have to like it. But it's legitimate.
interestate commerce
read case here
other aspects
Case I: You buy a movie theater ticket. You have purchased the avility to view the movie. But because you can't make it to the theater that night, you instead set up a video camera on your seat, so you can time shift your viewing of the movie. Are you entitled to do that? No.
Case II: You buy some ephedrine, some lithuim batteries, some drano and some Acetone. They are your property to use as you wish. You decide to whip up a batch of Crack. Are you allowed to do this? NO.
Case III: You own your car. You decide it would be cool to remove the windshield wipers and seatbelts. Can you do that? only if you don't put it on the road or try to sell it for such a use.
case IV: you own some swapland. You want to drain it. can you do that? Not if it's considered a protected wetland.
case V: you own a CD. You trade it to someone else for another CD. Can you do that. Yes. You own a peice of DRM'd music for which you contracted to play on a single computer. Can you sell that to someone else. NO. you contracted for that.
In fact that is the single most compelling argument both for and against DRM. If you are forced to contract for something in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion, there is precedent in some situations that says you cannot be forced to contract to give up consumer rights. However if you are offered something at a lower price in return for giving up a right then you can lose a standard right. Thus one thing you could ask is the folloowing. When you bought the DRM'd music, did you ask if you could pay more and not have it DRM'd. If not then tough luck, you accepted the contract. If so, and were refused, you might just barely possibly have a case.
Case VI: Your a farmer and the govenement tells you you can grow so many bushells on your land. You grow more but you plan to use them only for internal consumption on the property. Can you do that? seems like you could but infact you can't (read the case of Wicard Wheat). That case in fact IS the entire basis of 90% of federal law. The goverment has the right to regulate how anything is consumed or used if there is even tangentially some affect on interstate commerce. in the case of Wickard, the Supreme court ruled that if he had not grown the crops for his own use, he might possibly have purhcased them on the open market.
The point is that No you can't do what you please even if you own property. Don't like that? change 200 Years of case law, otherwise stop whining.
the controlls look pretty fiddley. I operate my lanyad ipod worn under my shirt while bike riding or skiing. I dont think I could quickly operate those teeny controls. The volume knob looks especially crappy. All of them look like great pocket lint collectors.
Look at the seems. Even in the demo-model they can't get them to line up! this is chunk of crap.
And then where's the connectivity? just a couple jacks.
It's all exactly like Steve Jobs predicted: cramming a screen and controls on to a small device compromises the usefulness of both. Here's the concrete realization of something with a uselessly small screen and awful human interface.
Okay this is such a crybaby story. Why does the Motherhood of these women matter? Why does the marital status of these women matter. Are they alledging these are defenseless creatures or something. Oh PLease.
It's okay to hate the RIAA. But demonizing them for kicking elf, stepping on spiders, and scaring babies is just taking it too far.
Enough with this crap.
Seriously. This is enough to make me believe all the anti-RIAA propaganda we read here is just as much hot air as this story. I'm beggining to think if this is the best people can do to smear the RIAA that maybe I should consider if the RIAA has a valid point. Hmmm maybe they do since the people opposing them are apparently excitable children.
grow up!
But in the interests of discsussion: Okay let me rephrase my point using your termniology: a "wire" is a "waveguide" that supports too few modes or is too dispersive to support clean modulation. Furthermore if the impedance is varies quickly with frequency (or is otherwise dispersive) then the end termination will be essentially impossible to match. You will get ringing that will prevent clean modulation. Hence termination prevents clean modulation. In my experience it's really bad termination that leads to poor modulation in most cases. But that can simply arrise from dispersive or variable impedances. In otherwords from something that would not usefully be called a "waveguide" but might be called a "wire". ( I note that One way to look at dispersion is to think of it as distributed bad termination so really it's all "bad termination" if you want to look at it that way)
I beg to difffer. if the modulation is terrible then its not a well terminated wave guide. period. a wire does not constitute a waveguide.
Distributing your clock with photons imples you have a photon wave guide. If you are going to build a photon wave guide then why not build an electrical wave guide. Electrical wave guides, like for example coax cable, have wave velocities that are faster than light in glass, so they would logically be even better. And you dont' need any special materials like you would for optical wave guides.
The problem might be that usually wave guides have to be the size of the wavelength to work right. ghz wavelength are larger than the chip. Thus you get forced towards the optical region by this considerarion.
But you can beat this two ways.
1) use negative index of refraction materials. Then the waveguide can be smaller than the wave length
2) use near field waveguides with amplification. When the wavelength is a lot larger than the waveguide then the wave becomes evanscent (decaying). So it can't propagate very far. But hey, that's okay because the chip is not very wide either, so we can tolerate some loss of signal. And we could toss in some amplification to offset it.
okay folks repeat after me. ON-star is a service the user signs up and pays for. it is not forced on you. there are no privacy issues, stop with the knee jerk response that big brother watching is bad. You are paying big brother to watch you because you want it!!!! Why is this so hard to grasp. Is everyone here a 17 year old or something?
Will the Nano be upgradable? that is, was the chip oldered in or is in in there in a stadard flash drive socket. If so did apple or the CPU maker, cripple the nano's address range? if not buy that nano now and upgrade it next year. On the other hand the Nano sells for about $30 bucks more than the retail price of the 4Gb NAND chip. Son unless you can buy it below wholesale like apple, you'll be better off buying a new Nano when the 32 GB ones roll out.
then microsoft could write a winLoader to load windows if you wanted to dual boot your linux machine :-)
seriosly for anyone who uses linux clusters or is otherwise uninterested in Dual boot, it makes sense to flash you roms and get it over with.