If you put it in New Jersey, you'd have to worry about all of the idiot drivers... I don't know what's worse, a terrorist with 15lbs of C4 strapped to his schlong, or some 18-year old Jersey Girl putting on her makeup, talking on her cellphone, eating her celery stick, and reading the newspaper all while not realizing that she's driving a vehicle.
There are actually two modern fighters that could easily land and take off. One is the Harrier as you mentioned. The other is the Joint Strike Fighter, which also has vertical T/O and landing capability...
I've been in hundreds of 7-11 convenience stores and don't remember a single one of them NOT being staffed by someone appearing to be from that part of the world.
And why might I ask is it racism to imply that many or all 7-11 stores are Indian run? Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. I don't see how "All 7-11 stores are run by Indians" can possible be equal to "Indians are inferior to my race."
Would it be racism to say that most Americans are idiots? Or, with so much evidence supporting that notion, is it simply a cultural observation?
So, what I'll say is: "they call in culturally institutionalized liberal reactionism." When you take the time to notice trends in the real world, you're automatically a racist pig who deserves to be butchered and fed to pigs.
And where, might I ask, is it made wrong or illegal to walk down the street in NYC with a Klan robe on? Members of the Ku Klux Klan have the same right to freedom of expression and speech that you and I do. It's the liberal left that endeavors to censor free speech and expression from groups or individuals that they do not agree with. This is not only hypocrisy, but also illegal. I may not agree with the principles of the KKK, but I will defend their right to believe what they believe. The same goes for any other group the foundations of which I believe are incorrect.
When you start censuring people for their beliefs, you are far worse than the "racist" you think someone is.
Did they bother to read the history of linux? If so, they'd realize that linux followed after Andrew Tanenbaum's MINIX system. In fact, there was a lot of tension between Torvalds and Tanenbaum over the design of linux, and Tanenbaum even went so far as to proclaim that "Linux is obsolete." Apparently he didn't approve of Linux's kernel design.
Yeha, there are several warnings in many books about hiking the A.T. that under no circumstances should you venture off of the appalachian trail near the lehigh gap. There is a 18-mile stretch that is listed as a "no water" zone.
Scary what the industrial revolution has done to our environment.
I remember hiking through the Cumberland Gap... man that was a pain, but not nearly as bad as Lehigh Gap - that sucker was not only straight down and up, but all of that loose rock from the Zinc strip mines made it dangerous and toxic! Nothing like hiking through an EPA superfund area to get your tired feet moving.
Well, the think that you're overlooking here is that the wave is going to have a significant amount of forward momentum and kinetic energy when it hits land. All of that intertia is going to carry the water right up the hill, likely much farther than 35 feet. So, guess what, you're screwed:)
The first kind prevents you from working in your general field if doing so presents competition for your employer. This kind is very unethical and usually will not hold water in court. Some states, like Georgia, have specific laws making such agreements illegal and punishable by civil fines. Some people still sign them, but in general it is either illegal or at the very least not recognized by courts that one employer can prevent you from getting a job in the field in which you have your expertise.
The second kind prevents you from soliciting customers from your employer if you leave and go to work for a competitor. This type is ok as far as I can tell as it prevents companies from planting people in their competitors' companies just to steal customers.
I have to ship my Compaq laptop in for repair about every six months for the same problem every time... they always blitz and reimage the hard drive for me, so I never have to spring clean.
It does suck; however, to have to re-install everything twice every year...
I don't see where your post addresses the inefficiency issue. You spoke more about accuracy and procedure than efficiency.
Most people in this thread are bitching about how expensive medical care is, and we're not blaming you doctors. We're blaming the people who have your hands tied: the lawyers and insurance companies. As an ER doctor, you probably aren't subject to a lot of the abuse that family practice doctors are. You aren't forced to promote the latest fad drug just so you can stay in business. You aren't told by some bureaucrat how much you can charge for your services (or are you?). You probably aren't a puppet to big-pharma, big-insurance, and big-litigation, but maybe you are, we don't know.
You have a great opportunity in this public forum to expose a lot of the crap that we lay-people speculate about. We know lots of things go on behind closed doors that seriously inflate the cost of medical care - like price-fixing among big-pharma, secretive pricing structures, and flat out "pay us $100,000 or you die" extortion of seriously ill people.
In Pennsylvania, even expensive doctors can't afford to say in business because of high malpractice insurance premiums and the fear of being sued. Also, CYA-medicine is rampant (patient: *cough* I think I'm sick, doctor: here, I want you to go in for a full-body MRI, an echocardiogram, a colonoscopy, and a full-body diagnostic) because if a doctor overlooks something or makes even the slightest error, he/she can be sued out of business regardless of whether there were even any negative consequences for the patient.
You'd be doing a much better public service by confirming or denying some of these allegations or at least shedding some light on why medical care has become such a fat bloated pig.
I refuse to go to doctors anymore. I don't care how sick I feel or how high my fever is. The last time I went to the doctor with some persistent heartburn (from binge eating) I ended up going to the hospital for $4k worth of unneccesary tests when a little bit of therapy for my eating disorder was all I needed. The physician didn't even ask about any medical history, my eating habits, or ANYTHING. He asked what the problem was. I said I had had heartburn consistently for 3 or 4 days, and he wrote up the Rx and shoved me out of his office. That was the end of medical care for me - about 2 years ago.
There's no reason for any of this crap to be going on. If there were no insurance companies or lawyers, human medicine would cost about the same as veterinary medicine, which is much more reasonable.
Yeah, did you see the pics from the party? Lots of fat ugly nerds and porn stars.... wonder how much the porn stars set nVidia's customers back... I wonder how much of that $99 the card costs at the store is attributable to Catalina (or whatever her name is) strutting around in a thong for the geeks at nVidia. Isn't that the kind of behavior that crashed most of the.coms way back in the day? Blowing all of your money on lavish parties and such?
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Not to mention that going out of your way to draw an assault against yourself will probably get you into more trouble than you're ready to deal with..
I'm pretty sure there's a law against entrapping someone so you can use a weapon against them... and yes, this thing IS a weapon..
LAWYERS! Here in PennSUElvania, doctors are fleeing to other states in droves because malpractice insurance can cost 50% of a doctors GROSS revenue.
Another poster also mentioned CYA medicine - and I wholly agree. I went in with persistent heartburn (from persistent overeating - and I told him that I have a problem dealing with food control), and the doctor ended up shoving me into a $2300 echocardiogram, a $1300 thoracic endoscopy, and, of course, shoved my pockets full of little purple pills, an AstraZeneca notepad, a bunch of Purple Pens, a purple calculator, and all kinda other promotional big-pharma items. Oh yeah, and let's not forget the $70 office visit.
So, rather than send me to a therapist to help deal with my binge eating disorder (cost to insurance company: $800 for 8 visits), he did all these tests and didn't solve the problem... and cost my insurance company almost 5 times as much money..
I have no more faith in doctors.. They're not allowed to be doctors any more out of fear of lawyers...
I wonder if putting phony MP3's on your ftp server in hopes of confusing the powers that be might fall under this. After all, isn't that sort of honeypot-ish?
I wonder what this would mean for other "red herring" type of defense measures....
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The article claims he sends 120 to 180 million emails every 12 hours, so that's up to 360 million emails per day. At that rate, it takes approximately 18 days to email every man, woman, and child on the planet....
How about a global "Do Not Call" list for email?
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Why not just mandate what exists in many states for telemarketers? Establish a global blacklist that people can sign up for, and spammers must check that list before sending an email? The fines could be made substantial enough to be a deterrent - say 5 years in the pokie with a 300lb hairy "woman" named "Bubba" and siezure of all assets without forbearance of liabilities. That way, after 5 years of hell, they can get out of prison to a mountain of debt with no hope of ever climbing out.
This might be a technical challenge, but so was landing on the moon...
"Blatant forgeries in commercial email headers should be made illegal."
Of course, this legitimizes the little "concealing the source of network traffic" is illegal thing that's going on with NAT routers and WLANs right now...
"There must have been something that made these companies decide to test with 8VSB. Was 8VSB transmission gear cheaper than COFDM? Did 8VSB have any advantages over COFDM for transmitting digital data? It does sound like 8VSB is very similar to data modems in modulation."
It could be that COFDM wasn't that mature back when hardware was first being developed (in the late 80's). Now that I think about the design implications some more, COFDM does require a more linear amplifier because the peak-to-average power ratio can be very high - as much as 8 to 10dB. That probably drives the cost of a transmitter up pretty significantly. However, to cover the same number of households with 8VSB requires a much higher average power, which also drives up cost.
So I guess it's just a tradeoff there... If you want to shoot me an email, I'll follow up and see if I can find some old articles and filings with more info...
8VSB has a lower data capacity than COFDM as well as a higher required S/N ratio at the receiver end for recovery.
The advantages of COFDM are that, with any coded orthogonal carrier system, you can cram many more carriers together in a tightly defined frequency spectrum and therefore carry much more data. Also, since COFDMs carriers are frequency modulated, the capture effect drastically improves reception.
You ever notice that when you listen to an FM station, it's more or less either all there or all not? When you listen to AM, there's all kinds of interference on top of it all the time. That's essentially the same thing as COFDM vs. 8VSB, which is why there is no technical merit to using 8VSB for over-the-air HDTV.
Here's the really interesting part - most every single data trasmission method used to day is based on AM. Any interference on top of the signal can and usually will cause a symbol error. That's why you rarely see higher orders of modulation than 16 in over the air and 64 in cable-driven systems. (Order 16 carries 4 bits per symbol and 64 carries 6 bits per symbol).
A 9600 baud modem using 16-QAM will give you a datarate of 38400bps. Of course, telephone companies give you very narrow spectrum, about 3000Hz, which means you can only have about a 1200 baud modem. So, that's why there are distance restrictions on your 56k modem - it's probably a 1200 baud modem trying to run three orthogonal 256-QAM signals (8 bits per symbol per carrier). The reason you're limited to 53k in the US is because you aren't allowed to put enough power on the phone line to actually do 256-QAM (need a very high S/N ratio). So, they use 128 instead, giving you 7 instead of 8 bits per symbol, and therefore losing 3600 bits per second of throughput.
But, I'm off on a tangent now, so I'll shut up:) But, the short story is that COFDM would have been a much better choice, and two corporations who didn't want to sacrifice about $15Mio between them together ruined over-the-air HDTV. I'm sure the cable industry probably had something to do with it, too...
Did you know that Bill Gates lobbied to have HDTV limited to 640x480? He's still trying to take over HDTV and turn it into a Windows-only standard. His next goal is to have all televisions running WindowsCE.
"Again the US was the first to come up with a digital HDTV standard, at the time 8VSB was chosen the rest of the world was using analog HDTV."
This simply isn't true. Europe adopted COFDM long before the FCC decided to go with 8VSB. In fact, there was a R&O following an NPRM about a year after Europe adopted FM. Despite all of the technical evidence presented to the Commission demonstrating that COFDM was far and away a better choice, they decided to go with 8VSB. This was because broadcasters had already deployed a bunch of test stations using 8VSB - knowing full well that the standard had not yet been decided. We can thank about a dozen stations for the fact that we have an inferior HDTV system to the rest of the world. WPIX in New York and some station in Las Vegas, Nevada that was used for the NAB demo were the two most vocal and influential corporations responsible for the choice.
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If you put it in New Jersey, you'd have to worry about all of the idiot drivers... I don't know what's worse, a terrorist with 15lbs of C4 strapped to his schlong, or some 18-year old Jersey Girl putting on her makeup, talking on her cellphone, eating her celery stick, and reading the newspaper all while not realizing that she's driving a vehicle.
What about insurance and legal fees? There goes your profit...
There are actually two modern fighters that could easily land and take off. One is the Harrier as you mentioned. The other is the Joint Strike Fighter, which also has vertical T/O and landing capability...
I've been in hundreds of 7-11 convenience stores and don't remember a single one of them NOT being staffed by someone appearing to be from that part of the world.
And why might I ask is it racism to imply that many or all 7-11 stores are Indian run? Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. I don't see how "All 7-11 stores are run by Indians" can possible be equal to "Indians are inferior to my race."
Would it be racism to say that most Americans are idiots? Or, with so much evidence supporting that notion, is it simply a cultural observation?
So, what I'll say is: "they call in culturally institutionalized liberal reactionism." When you take the time to notice trends in the real world, you're automatically a racist pig who deserves to be butchered and fed to pigs.
And where, might I ask, is it made wrong or illegal to walk down the street in NYC with a Klan robe on? Members of the Ku Klux Klan have the same right to freedom of expression and speech that you and I do. It's the liberal left that endeavors to censor free speech and expression from groups or individuals that they do not agree with. This is not only hypocrisy, but also illegal. I may not agree with the principles of the KKK, but I will defend their right to believe what they believe. The same goes for any other group the foundations of which I believe are incorrect.
When you start censuring people for their beliefs, you are far worse than the "racist" you think someone is.
Offtopic, but it had to be said...
Yeha, there are several warnings in many books about hiking the A.T. that under no circumstances should you venture off of the appalachian trail near the lehigh gap. There is a 18-mile stretch that is listed as a "no water" zone.
Scary what the industrial revolution has done to our environment.
I remember hiking through the Cumberland Gap... man that was a pain, but not nearly as bad as Lehigh Gap - that sucker was not only straight down and up, but all of that loose rock from the Zinc strip mines made it dangerous and toxic! Nothing like hiking through an EPA superfund area to get your tired feet moving.
Well, the think that you're overlooking here is that the wave is going to have a significant amount of forward momentum and kinetic energy when it hits land. All of that intertia is going to carry the water right up the hill, likely much farther than 35 feet. So, guess what, you're screwed :)
The first kind prevents you from working in your general field if doing so presents competition for your employer. This kind is very unethical and usually will not hold water in court. Some states, like Georgia, have specific laws making such agreements illegal and punishable by civil fines. Some people still sign them, but in general it is either illegal or at the very least not recognized by courts that one employer can prevent you from getting a job in the field in which you have your expertise.
The second kind prevents you from soliciting customers from your employer if you leave and go to work for a competitor. This type is ok as far as I can tell as it prevents companies from planting people in their competitors' companies just to steal customers.
US notes aren't made out of paper. They're made out of a cotton-based cloth that is made from recycled clothing, among other things
And jesus christ - this 2 minute/20 second things is a piece of crap - I've been trying to post this damn comment for 10 minutes now...
This would also decrease the government's abiliy yo levy taxes, so it will never ever happen...
I have to ship my Compaq laptop in for repair about every six months for the same problem every time... they always blitz and reimage the hard drive for me, so I never have to spring clean.
It does suck; however, to have to re-install everything twice every year...
I don't see where your post addresses the inefficiency issue. You spoke more about accuracy and procedure than efficiency.
Most people in this thread are bitching about how expensive medical care is, and we're not blaming you doctors. We're blaming the people who have your hands tied: the lawyers and insurance companies. As an ER doctor, you probably aren't subject to a lot of the abuse that family practice doctors are. You aren't forced to promote the latest fad drug just so you can stay in business. You aren't told by some bureaucrat how much you can charge for your services (or are you?). You probably aren't a puppet to big-pharma, big-insurance, and big-litigation, but maybe you are, we don't know.
You have a great opportunity in this public forum to expose a lot of the crap that we lay-people speculate about. We know lots of things go on behind closed doors that seriously inflate the cost of medical care - like price-fixing among big-pharma, secretive pricing structures, and flat out "pay us $100,000 or you die" extortion of seriously ill people.
In Pennsylvania, even expensive doctors can't afford to say in business because of high malpractice insurance premiums and the fear of being sued. Also, CYA-medicine is rampant (patient: *cough* I think I'm sick, doctor: here, I want you to go in for a full-body MRI, an echocardiogram, a colonoscopy, and a full-body diagnostic) because if a doctor overlooks something or makes even the slightest error, he/she can be sued out of business regardless of whether there were even any negative consequences for the patient.
You'd be doing a much better public service by confirming or denying some of these allegations or at least shedding some light on why medical care has become such a fat bloated pig.
I refuse to go to doctors anymore. I don't care how sick I feel or how high my fever is. The last time I went to the doctor with some persistent heartburn (from binge eating) I ended up going to the hospital for $4k worth of unneccesary tests when a little bit of therapy for my eating disorder was all I needed. The physician didn't even ask about any medical history, my eating habits, or ANYTHING. He asked what the problem was. I said I had had heartburn consistently for 3 or 4 days, and he wrote up the Rx and shoved me out of his office. That was the end of medical care for me - about 2 years ago.
There's no reason for any of this crap to be going on. If there were no insurance companies or lawyers, human medicine would cost about the same as veterinary medicine, which is much more reasonable.
"but instead they are pissing money away"
.coms way back in the day? Blowing all of your money on lavish parties and such?
Yeah, did you see the pics from the party? Lots of fat ugly nerds and porn stars.... wonder how much the porn stars set nVidia's customers back... I wonder how much of that $99 the card costs at the store is attributable to Catalina (or whatever her name is) strutting around in a thong for the geeks at nVidia. Isn't that the kind of behavior that crashed most of the
Not to mention that going out of your way to draw an assault against yourself will probably get you into more trouble than you're ready to deal with..
I'm pretty sure there's a law against entrapping someone so you can use a weapon against them... and yes, this thing IS a weapon..
The first time I get shocked by one of these, I'm going to _sue_ her pants off...
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After that, who knows
Healthcare is so expensive because of...
*gasp*
LAWYERS! Here in PennSUElvania, doctors are fleeing to other states in droves because malpractice insurance can cost 50% of a doctors GROSS revenue.
Another poster also mentioned CYA medicine - and I wholly agree. I went in with persistent heartburn (from persistent overeating - and I told him that I have a problem dealing with food control), and the doctor ended up shoving me into a $2300 echocardiogram, a $1300 thoracic endoscopy, and, of course, shoved my pockets full of little purple pills, an AstraZeneca notepad, a bunch of Purple Pens, a purple calculator, and all kinda other promotional big-pharma items. Oh yeah, and let's not forget the $70 office visit.
So, rather than send me to a therapist to help deal with my binge eating disorder (cost to insurance company: $800 for 8 visits), he did all these tests and didn't solve the problem... and cost my insurance company almost 5 times as much money..
I have no more faith in doctors.. They're not allowed to be doctors any more out of fear of lawyers...
I wonder if putting phony MP3's on your ftp server in hopes of confusing the powers that be might fall under this. After all, isn't that sort of honeypot-ish?
I wonder what this would mean for other "red herring" type of defense measures....
The article claims he sends 120 to 180 million emails every 12 hours, so that's up to 360 million emails per day. At that rate, it takes approximately 18 days to email every man, woman, and child on the planet....
Why not just mandate what exists in many states for telemarketers? Establish a global blacklist that people can sign up for, and spammers must check that list before sending an email? The fines could be made substantial enough to be a deterrent - say 5 years in the pokie with a 300lb hairy "woman" named "Bubba" and siezure of all assets without forbearance of liabilities. That way, after 5 years of hell, they can get out of prison to a mountain of debt with no hope of ever climbing out.
This might be a technical challenge, but so was landing on the moon...
"Blatant forgeries in commercial email headers should be made illegal."
Of course, this legitimizes the little "concealing the source of network traffic" is illegal thing that's going on with NAT routers and WLANs right now...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
"There must have been something that made these companies decide to test with 8VSB. Was 8VSB transmission gear cheaper than COFDM? Did 8VSB have any advantages over COFDM for transmitting digital data? It does sound like 8VSB is very similar to data modems in modulation."
It could be that COFDM wasn't that mature back when hardware was first being developed (in the late 80's). Now that I think about the design implications some more, COFDM does require a more linear amplifier because the peak-to-average power ratio can be very high - as much as 8 to 10dB. That probably drives the cost of a transmitter up pretty significantly. However, to cover the same number of households with 8VSB requires a much higher average power, which also drives up cost.
So I guess it's just a tradeoff there... If you want to shoot me an email, I'll follow up and see if I can find some old articles and filings with more info...
8VSB has a lower data capacity than COFDM as well as a higher required S/N ratio at the receiver end for recovery.
:) But, the short story is that COFDM would have been a much better choice, and two corporations who didn't want to sacrifice about $15Mio between them together ruined over-the-air HDTV. I'm sure the cable industry probably had something to do with it, too...
The advantages of COFDM are that, with any coded orthogonal carrier system, you can cram many more carriers together in a tightly defined frequency spectrum and therefore carry much more data. Also, since COFDMs carriers are frequency modulated, the capture effect drastically improves reception.
You ever notice that when you listen to an FM station, it's more or less either all there or all not? When you listen to AM, there's all kinds of interference on top of it all the time. That's essentially the same thing as COFDM vs. 8VSB, which is why there is no technical merit to using 8VSB for over-the-air HDTV.
Here's the really interesting part - most every single data trasmission method used to day is based on AM. Any interference on top of the signal can and usually will cause a symbol error. That's why you rarely see higher orders of modulation than 16 in over the air and 64 in cable-driven systems. (Order 16 carries 4 bits per symbol and 64 carries 6 bits per symbol).
A 9600 baud modem using 16-QAM will give you a datarate of 38400bps. Of course, telephone companies give you very narrow spectrum, about 3000Hz, which means you can only have about a 1200 baud modem. So, that's why there are distance restrictions on your 56k modem - it's probably a 1200 baud modem trying to run three orthogonal 256-QAM signals (8 bits per symbol per carrier). The reason you're limited to 53k in the US is because you aren't allowed to put enough power on the phone line to actually do 256-QAM (need a very high S/N ratio). So, they use 128 instead, giving you 7 instead of 8 bits per symbol, and therefore losing 3600 bits per second of throughput.
But, I'm off on a tangent now, so I'll shut up
Did you know that Bill Gates lobbied to have HDTV limited to 640x480? He's still trying to take over HDTV and turn it into a Windows-only standard. His next goal is to have all televisions running WindowsCE.
"Again the US was the first to come up with a digital HDTV standard, at the time 8VSB was chosen the rest of the world was using analog HDTV."
This simply isn't true. Europe adopted COFDM long before the FCC decided to go with 8VSB. In fact, there was a R&O following an NPRM about a year after Europe adopted FM. Despite all of the technical evidence presented to the Commission demonstrating that COFDM was far and away a better choice, they decided to go with 8VSB. This was because broadcasters had already deployed a bunch of test stations using 8VSB - knowing full well that the standard had not yet been decided. We can thank about a dozen stations for the fact that we have an inferior HDTV system to the rest of the world. WPIX in New York and some station in Las Vegas, Nevada that was used for the NAB demo were the two most vocal and influential corporations responsible for the choice.
"Km/H is just wrong, though. ;)"
Yeah I'd much rather use m/s - the scaling isn't that bad... 100km/h is 27.8 or so m/s.