"...not knowing the difference between a totalitarian state and a police state."
Perhaps you could assist those of us who fall short of your measure with one or more real-life examples of countries which have been one or the other but not both.
There's not that much in the way of magnets inside a color TV, but there are deflection coils, which, when energized, create varying electromagnetic fields which the earth's field can add to or subtract from.
There are also 3 additional coils, one for each color gun, which can be adjusted for color purity, but of course if the set's orientation is changed afterwards they may need re-adjusting.
'Scopes are monochrome and use electrostatic deflection plates, so any effect upon the cathode ray beam itself would probably be next to impossible to discern visually.
"PS - What, exactly, is the ideology that takes the SBC chairman's statements about preparing to gouge consumers and turns that into "Consumers win! Everybody wins!"?"
Barnum-ology. As in "There's a sucker born every minute."
Once you introduce the concept of going "non-traditional" on the $100 laptop keyboard you open up the possibility of going non-English and the next thing you know those poor little kids in Africa are going to be training themselves for domination by their Chinese or Spanish speaking overlords instead of their English speaking overlords. Or maybe even preparing themselves to be their own overlords, speaking their own native tongue.
I've long suspected that, when it comes to sheer money lust, music publishers make the record companies look positively philanthropic.
Back in the '60s the sheet music for a song cost more than the 45 RPM record, and you got 2 songs on the record and only one on the sheet music.
One could spend their entire life and career tracking down all the songs that got included on albums not because they were good but because of who would make money because of owning the publishing rights.
"Even if it was "terrorist" machine how can you imply what was going on?"
They won't imply, they will infer. Then they'll "render" you off to Gitmo or Syria or Siberia or wherever we're outsourcing "vigorous" interrogation these days, and before long you'll admit to anything they want to hear.
Why go digital at all? (Score:0) by danpsmith (922127) Alter Relationship on Wednesday December 14, @11:27AM (#14256711) Just because computers are good for some things, doesn't mean they are good for everything. I don't know why people don't get this concept.
Digital is great because of a few of its attributes:
* Malleable - Digital media can easily be altered in order to keep up with changing information
* Manipulability - Digital media can be altered automatically and even remotely if desired
Now what else does this list encompass... Oh that's right, the exact opposite of what you want from voting results!
"For my 600VA unit, I pulled the stock 7VA battery and hooked up a car battery."
Car batteries (or tractor or marine or anything along those lines) do not belong indoors, and are probably a good way to void your homeowner's or renter's insurance, assuming that you're still alive to care.
If only one line in the previous Wikipedia was correct maybe it was somebody else's bio. Perhaps someone cranked out bio's for all of RFK's assistant's and tried to post them all at once and got their labels switched.
But seriously, if Answers.com and Reference.com just cut and paste from Wikipedia, what is their excuse for existing?
"But perhaps more compelling to Google is AOL's access to reams of content owned by sister companies such as Time Inc. and cable channel HBO."
So if Time-Warner sells off AOL, doesn't that mean that AOL won't have any more access to TW-owned content than anybody else?
Remember when AOL was so overvalued that it could buy TW instead of the other way around? And then Wall Street was going on about how the monopoly on accessing TW content via the web would cause millions to flock to AOL to get their online Elmer Fudd fix? And then that didn't exactly happen and they took AOL out of the parent company name? Maybe they're so desperate to get rid of AOL that they're willing to throw Bugs Bunny and Wolf Blitzer in to sweeten the deal.
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Perhaps you could assist those of us who fall short of your measure with one or more real-life examples of countries which have been one or the other but not both.
So you just jump into a thread in the middle and work your way down, ignoring the upper part of the thread?
There are also 3 additional coils, one for each color gun, which can be adjusted for color purity, but of course if the set's orientation is changed afterwards they may need re-adjusting.
'Scopes are monochrome and use electrostatic deflection plates, so any effect upon the cathode ray beam itself would probably be next to impossible to discern visually.
Do O'scope CRTs, which are electro-statically deflected rather than electro-magnetically, suffer from this as well?
Yeah, but that's after the rebate, if it ever arrives.
And as the NYT's reputation goes to hell in a handbasket, the reverse is true less and less often.
Barnum-ology. As in "There's a sucker born every minute."
Once you introduce the concept of going "non-traditional" on the $100 laptop keyboard you open up the possibility of going non-English and the next thing you know those poor little kids in Africa are going to be training themselves for domination by their Chinese or Spanish speaking overlords instead of their English speaking overlords. Or maybe even preparing themselves to be their own overlords, speaking their own native tongue.
Well, perhaps we could make an exception for sex. :-)
Back in the '60s the sheet music for a song cost more than the 45 RPM record, and you got 2 songs on the record and only one on the sheet music.
One could spend their entire life and career tracking down all the songs that got included on albums not because they were good but because of who would make money because of owning the publishing rights.
Well, yeah, but this one was worth posting for the title alone.
They won't imply, they will infer. Then they'll "render" you off to Gitmo or Syria or Siberia or wherever we're outsourcing "vigorous" interrogation these days, and before long you'll admit to anything they want to hear.
Why go digital at all?
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by danpsmith (922127) Alter Relationship on Wednesday December 14, @11:27AM (#14256711)
Just because computers are good for some things, doesn't mean they are good for everything. I don't know why people don't get this concept.
Digital is great because of a few of its attributes:
* Malleable - Digital media can easily be altered in order to keep up with changing information
* Manipulability - Digital media can be altered automatically and even remotely if desired
Now what else does this list encompass... Oh that's right, the exact opposite of what you want from voting results!
Yeah, it's so much better now that thousands of Iraqi civilians are being targeted for torture by some Iraqi or Iraqis other than Saddam.
In addition to the ones that we torture or "render" to other countries so as to get them to do our dirty work for us.
Car batteries (or tractor or marine or anything along those lines) do not belong indoors, and are probably a good way to void your homeowner's or renter's insurance, assuming that you're still alive to care.
Can you receive both on the same piece of hardware?
If, by improved, you mean replaced humans with a computer of no use whatsoever during local weather emergencies, then, yeah, you're right.
I'm pretty sure that there's at least one. The one that says you should have said that there 'are' no solid rules in English. :-)
But seriously, if Answers.com and Reference.com just cut and paste from Wikipedia, what is their excuse for existing?
So in order to have posting access you'd have to abandon your #638 account and get another one?
I wonder if Cmdr Taco has already reserved # 1,000,000 for himself to avoid being trapped in the 1-999 ghetto.
I'm guessing that you never actually worked in a for-profit radio station.
"But perhaps more compelling to Google is AOL's access to reams of content owned by sister companies such as Time Inc. and cable channel HBO."
So if Time-Warner sells off AOL, doesn't that mean that AOL won't have any more access to TW-owned content than anybody else?
Remember when AOL was so overvalued that it could buy TW instead of the other way around? And then Wall Street was going on about how the monopoly on accessing TW content via the web would cause millions to flock to AOL to get their online Elmer Fudd fix? And then that didn't exactly happen and they took AOL out of the parent company name? Maybe they're so desperate to get rid of AOL that they're willing to throw Bugs Bunny and Wolf Blitzer in to sweeten the deal.
Somebody mod this up. Interesting, perhaps.
Can one buy enough stock in one to control the company and direct it down a path that disadvantages either or both of the other two?
Can you tell we have TW cable?