Sales taxes I believe are actually called sales and use taxes. So if you live in Maryland, buy a car in Delaware because they don't have sales taxes, you are supposed to pay taxes on that car in Maryland because that is where it will be used. I must admit I don't truly understand the whole thing, but there are a whole variety of rules. For instance, I don't think you have to pay taxes in your home state if you paid more taxes in the state you bought it in. However, if you paid less taxes in the state you bought it in than you would have paid in your home state, I think you are supposed to make up the difference to your home state. I never realized how complicated the whole matter was until a coworker and I got into a discussion about Sales and Use taxes a couple of years ago.
I meant AMD or Intel of course. Sorry, the audience slipped my mind. I don't want to be modded down to flamebait for throwing Intel out there like that:)
So wonder how long it will be before instead of getting an Intel processor with two general purpose CPUs on one die, we will be able to get a CPU and a PPU on one die or a CPU and a GPU on one die. Maybe we will eventually have the choice of having all 3 cores integrated into a single die. I suppose this would provide greater bandwidth between the various processors and would allow us to use one bank of easily upgradeable memory. The reason I add the memory thing is because I am not aware if there are video cards out there where it is convenient to add memory capacity, I know my cheap card doesn't have an easy way to add memory. I suppose I could solder on some chips to the open pads, but I'm not sure if the GPU would automatically recognize the memory or not.
Strictly speaking, anything a computer does is deterministic. Just with the other methods you speak off, the sniffer doesn't know the inputs to the determistic system. Just a minor point.
Recording over FireWire can definitely be done with Windows and I believe can be done with Linux. And this is without a TV tuner in the PC of course, because the cable box is the tuner.
As another responder has said, you can record HD content via a FireWire connection to a cable box. I have a Motorola DCT-6200 with a FireWire port which pipes the broadcast HD channels (ABC/CBS/NBC/Fox) out of the FireWire port unencrypted. And from my understanding, the cable company is not allowed to encrypt those channels. The other HD channels that my cable company provides (HBO/Cinemax/Showtime/ESPN) as well as all of the digital stations are encrypted and cannot be recorded via the FireWire port. The analog stations (2-99) are also MPEG encoded by the cable box and sent out of the FireWire port unencrypted.
Well, after having played with Linux for hours on end to build my MythTV box, some may claim that those billions spent on Windows have been more than made up in increased worker productivity. What took me 30+ hours to get kind of working under Linux, I had working in 1 hour under Windows. For most of the tasks most people want to do, Microsoft has produced a good operating system. Most people don't have the time or knowledge to edit *.conf files,compile source code, etc..., they just want something that works. I'm sure at this time you want to go into a tirade about how windows doesn't work because of how many viruses Windows gets and so on. However, if another OS had the market share that Windows had, people would be writing viruses for those OSs too.
You don't have to give up surround sound to watch DivX/XVid with AC3. Enough channels can be encoded with AC3 to give you surround sound. The point was do you need surround sound in French and Spanish? Most DVDs have 5.1 sound tracks in 3 languages and 2 channel sound tracks in three languages, as well as subtitles in all the languages. Each 5.1 track can take about 300 MB and subtitles take a couple megabytes.
You do realize that the government doesn't have their own money right? Ultimately, in the end, we are going to have to pay whatever it costs to provide the service in taxes. So if it costs X to provide the service and they charge Y to users, the other X - Y is just going to be made up in taxes. So people who don't even know what WiFi is will be subsidizing our browsing (not to say we don't subsidize things all the time that we don't use). The real question is can the government really provide this service cheaper than private business and how do we determine exactly how much the goverment is spending to provide the service. That is the problem with private businesses trying to compete against the goverment.
I have been playing around with Myth TV and the problem I have is not only getting a quality picture out, but also a quality picture in. Right now I have my digital cable box connected to my PVR-250 with an S-Video cable, I would imagine if you wanted to spend the money, there are capture cards that could take take the component video out of the cable box. What would be ideal, which the article mentions, is capturing from the firewire port on a cable box, however, after talking to the cable company and to motorola, it sounds like you have to depend on the cable company to turn on that feature, and the people at my cable company don't even know they can do such a thing. Now to get the picture out, my computer video card has an s-video output (as does the 350 I believe), which again is not as good as component video. But, again, if you want to spend the money, I think they sell video cards that have component video outputs or I believe they make converters that will take the VGA output and convert that to component video.
I have an awesome 486 for sale that your friend might want to buy. It even has a turbo button for playing the more demanding games such as Wolfenstein. I am willing to part ways with it for a mere $2000.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the recording surface very close to the top of the disk. Meaning when you scratch the top of the disk, it damages the recording surface. This is the impression I had, and if this is the case, it seems advantageous to have a paper label affixed to the disk. It seems like the paper provides an extra layer of protection.
You are incorrect to call people fools for supporting brick and mortar stores. I am well aware of the fact that I can get things cheaper online and I am well aware that it is the same merchandise, however, I am willing to pay a little more for the convenience of being able to run over to the store and pick something up that I need. Its just a personal preference. Recently, I also paid more for my cable then I had to and stuck with the smaller cable company over the larger Comcast. Was this because I am a fool... No it is because the competition is what makes the cable prices so low in my area and if everyone went with Comcast there would be no competition. I do not believe satellites are sufficient competition because a lot of people also desire to have a broadband connection with their cable. Sometimes people knowingly pay higher prices for a reason.
Geez, sorry I don't spend much time looking into which kernel Matlab uses to solve symbolic math problems. Also, I highly doubt, the teachers students would care about what Matlab calls to solve the problem. The point point still stands, that I the user can do symbolic math with "Matlab". In your original post, you seem to be saying that he won't be able to do symbolic math using Matlab. This may be semantics, but to me the tool Matlab includes any toolboxes availble. Whether or not a Maple kernel is doing the computation for me doesn't matter, as long as when I enter my problem into Matlab it gives me a correct answer.
MATLAB has a symbolic math toolbox that you can also purchase. I don't know how this toolbox compares to Mathematica. Also, I don't know if octave has a similar symbolic toolbox or not.
There are not that many problems with the way we vote, and I don't think elecronic voting is that big of a deal. I think the main problem with our voting is that you pick one candidate or another, what would be better is a ranking system, so a third party candidate doesn't much everything up.
If you spend more than you have in revenue, you either have to raise taxes or reduce spending is incorrect. You could wait for the increased revenue produced from a growing economy. This will result in more tax revenue without "raising taxes".
There is some website that lists where candidates received donations from, maybe somebody else can remember the name of the site. Anyhow, on that site, the PAC at UC Berkley was listed as one of John Kerry's biggest donors. Coincidence... ?
I'm not too knowledgeable about this stuff yet either, but I will try to help. Seeing as you are modded to 0 for some reason, I don't think many of the more knowledgeable will see the question. First off, most (all?) DVDs are not High Definition. A DVD doesn't not hold enough data for an entire HD movie. I think when they come out with these new DVD types like Blue Ray and I think there is another standard, they might have the storage capacity to put an HD movie onto a DVD. Second off, I would imagine that as long as the tuner card is recognized by the OS and software you are using, you should be able to tune and record regular programming. The PVR-350 does assist in recording because it has a hardware based MPEG encoder which takes the burden away from the CPU allowing one to use a less powerful computer. I didn't RTFA so I'm not sure if this has a hardware encoder (hardware to make the MPEG files).
I admittedly know about zero about British politics, though it is funny when they show the House of Commons? on CSpan. Anyway, isn't the Prime Minister appointed by his party and not directly elected by the people?
At such high frequencies though, atmospheric attenuation and even waveguide loss is quite high. Also, though the dimensions should be small, I don't think it is very easy to build high power components at 100+ GHz. Furthermore, if it is that small, I don't think it is going to be able to collect much of the "beamed in" power.
And how is this thing the size of a coin going to generate enough power at >100 GHz to achieve communication with a satellite? Sounds kind of sketchy to me.
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Sales taxes I believe are actually called sales and use taxes. So if you live in Maryland, buy a car in Delaware because they don't have sales taxes, you are supposed to pay taxes on that car in Maryland because that is where it will be used. I must admit I don't truly understand the whole thing, but there are a whole variety of rules. For instance, I don't think you have to pay taxes in your home state if you paid more taxes in the state you bought it in. However, if you paid less taxes in the state you bought it in than you would have paid in your home state, I think you are supposed to make up the difference to your home state. I never realized how complicated the whole matter was until a coworker and I got into a discussion about Sales and Use taxes a couple of years ago.
I meant AMD or Intel of course. Sorry, the audience slipped my mind. I don't want to be modded down to flamebait for throwing Intel out there like that :)
So wonder how long it will be before instead of getting an Intel processor with two general purpose CPUs on one die, we will be able to get a CPU and a PPU on one die or a CPU and a GPU on one die. Maybe we will eventually have the choice of having all 3 cores integrated into a single die. I suppose this would provide greater bandwidth between the various processors and would allow us to use one bank of easily upgradeable memory. The reason I add the memory thing is because I am not aware if there are video cards out there where it is convenient to add memory capacity, I know my cheap card doesn't have an easy way to add memory. I suppose I could solder on some chips to the open pads, but I'm not sure if the GPU would automatically recognize the memory or not.
Strictly speaking, anything a computer does is deterministic. Just with the other methods you speak off, the sniffer doesn't know the inputs to the determistic system. Just a minor point.
Recording over FireWire can definitely be done with Windows and I believe can be done with Linux. And this is without a TV tuner in the PC of course, because the cable box is the tuner.
As another responder has said, you can record HD content via a FireWire connection to a cable box. I have a Motorola DCT-6200 with a FireWire port which pipes the broadcast HD channels (ABC/CBS/NBC/Fox) out of the FireWire port unencrypted. And from my understanding, the cable company is not allowed to encrypt those channels. The other HD channels that my cable company provides (HBO/Cinemax/Showtime/ESPN) as well as all of the digital stations are encrypted and cannot be recorded via the FireWire port. The analog stations (2-99) are also MPEG encoded by the cable box and sent out of the FireWire port unencrypted.
Well, after having played with Linux for hours on end to build my MythTV box, some may claim that those billions spent on Windows have been more than made up in increased worker productivity. What took me 30+ hours to get kind of working under Linux, I had working in 1 hour under Windows. For most of the tasks most people want to do, Microsoft has produced a good operating system. Most people don't have the time or knowledge to edit *.conf files,compile source code, etc..., they just want something that works. I'm sure at this time you want to go into a tirade about how windows doesn't work because of how many viruses Windows gets and so on. However, if another OS had the market share that Windows had, people would be writing viruses for those OSs too.
You don't have to give up surround sound to watch DivX/XVid with AC3. Enough channels can be encoded with AC3 to give you surround sound. The point was do you need surround sound in French and Spanish? Most DVDs have 5.1 sound tracks in 3 languages and 2 channel sound tracks in three languages, as well as subtitles in all the languages. Each 5.1 track can take about 300 MB and subtitles take a couple megabytes.
You do realize that the government doesn't have their own money right? Ultimately, in the end, we are going to have to pay whatever it costs to provide the service in taxes. So if it costs X to provide the service and they charge Y to users, the other X - Y is just going to be made up in taxes. So people who don't even know what WiFi is will be subsidizing our browsing (not to say we don't subsidize things all the time that we don't use). The real question is can the government really provide this service cheaper than private business and how do we determine exactly how much the goverment is spending to provide the service. That is the problem with private businesses trying to compete against the goverment.
I have been playing around with Myth TV and the problem I have is not only getting a quality picture out, but also a quality picture in. Right now I have my digital cable box connected to my PVR-250 with an S-Video cable, I would imagine if you wanted to spend the money, there are capture cards that could take take the component video out of the cable box. What would be ideal, which the article mentions, is capturing from the firewire port on a cable box, however, after talking to the cable company and to motorola, it sounds like you have to depend on the cable company to turn on that feature, and the people at my cable company don't even know they can do such a thing. Now to get the picture out, my computer video card has an s-video output (as does the 350 I believe), which again is not as good as component video. But, again, if you want to spend the money, I think they sell video cards that have component video outputs or I believe they make converters that will take the VGA output and convert that to component video.
I have an awesome 486 for sale that your friend might want to buy. It even has a turbo button for playing the more demanding games such as Wolfenstein. I am willing to part ways with it for a mere $2000.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the recording surface very close to the top of the disk. Meaning when you scratch the top of the disk, it damages the recording surface. This is the impression I had, and if this is the case, it seems advantageous to have a paper label affixed to the disk. It seems like the paper provides an extra layer of protection.
You are incorrect to call people fools for supporting brick and mortar stores. I am well aware of the fact that I can get things cheaper online and I am well aware that it is the same merchandise, however, I am willing to pay a little more for the convenience of being able to run over to the store and pick something up that I need. Its just a personal preference. Recently, I also paid more for my cable then I had to and stuck with the smaller cable company over the larger Comcast. Was this because I am a fool... No it is because the competition is what makes the cable prices so low in my area and if everyone went with Comcast there would be no competition. I do not believe satellites are sufficient competition because a lot of people also desire to have a broadband connection with their cable. Sometimes people knowingly pay higher prices for a reason.
Geez, sorry I don't spend much time looking into which kernel Matlab uses to solve symbolic math problems. Also, I highly doubt, the teachers students would care about what Matlab calls to solve the problem. The point point still stands, that I the user can do symbolic math with "Matlab". In your original post, you seem to be saying that he won't be able to do symbolic math using Matlab. This may be semantics, but to me the tool Matlab includes any toolboxes availble. Whether or not a Maple kernel is doing the computation for me doesn't matter, as long as when I enter my problem into Matlab it gives me a correct answer.
MATLAB has a symbolic math toolbox that you can also purchase. I don't know how this toolbox compares to Mathematica. Also, I don't know if octave has a similar symbolic toolbox or not.
There are not that many problems with the way we vote, and I don't think elecronic voting is that big of a deal. I think the main problem with our voting is that you pick one candidate or another, what would be better is a ranking system, so a third party candidate doesn't much everything up.
If you spend more than you have in revenue, you either have to raise taxes or reduce spending is incorrect. You could wait for the increased revenue produced from a growing economy. This will result in more tax revenue without "raising taxes".
http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/contrib.as p?ID=N00000245&Cycle=All
Check out the donor list and tell me if you think maybe UC is biased.
the site is opensecrets.org http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/contrib.as p?ID=N00000245&Cycle=All
There is some website that lists where candidates received donations from, maybe somebody else can remember the name of the site. Anyhow, on that site, the PAC at UC Berkley was listed as one of John Kerry's biggest donors. Coincidence... ?
I'm not too knowledgeable about this stuff yet either, but I will try to help. Seeing as you are modded to 0 for some reason, I don't think many of the more knowledgeable will see the question. First off, most (all?) DVDs are not High Definition. A DVD doesn't not hold enough data for an entire HD movie. I think when they come out with these new DVD types like Blue Ray and I think there is another standard, they might have the storage capacity to put an HD movie onto a DVD. Second off, I would imagine that as long as the tuner card is recognized by the OS and software you are using, you should be able to tune and record regular programming. The PVR-350 does assist in recording because it has a hardware based MPEG encoder which takes the burden away from the CPU allowing one to use a less powerful computer. I didn't RTFA so I'm not sure if this has a hardware encoder (hardware to make the MPEG files).
I must have been reading a different comment.
I admittedly know about zero about British politics, though it is funny when they show the House of Commons? on CSpan. Anyway, isn't the Prime Minister appointed by his party and not directly elected by the people?
At such high frequencies though, atmospheric attenuation and even waveguide loss is quite high. Also, though the dimensions should be small, I don't think it is very easy to build high power components at 100+ GHz. Furthermore, if it is that small, I don't think it is going to be able to collect much of the "beamed in" power.
And how is this thing the size of a coin going to generate enough power at >100 GHz to achieve communication with a satellite? Sounds kind of sketchy to me.