That was my thought exactly. If this technology were implemented, how long would it be before some cracker used a robot to kill someone while they slept or something?
The point is that a significant amount of their design and marketing has been used to intentionally mislead customers into buying their product, instead of providing a decent product that customers would wish to purchase based on its merits.
This type of thing should be illegal. If your only path to customers is through deception, you have no right to profit from business. Capitalism should not include deception. Ideal capitalism is competition based on merit at market prices.
This is not that.
I had to build a custom DSP and I use 5:1 compression with a 50ms attack and a 200ms release for television because filmmakers just LOVE to have super quiet dialog and extremely loud explosions just minutes apart. I finally got sick of turning the volume up and down. I find I still like the compression with my XBOX 360 because it allows me to hear quiet sounds without the loud sounds waking up the kids.
I got a television with DSP built in, but the only options are stupid cathedral echo effects which don't do me any favors at all. Thanks a lot, Olevia. (Syntax Brillian) The ONE DSP function I would need, and it was nowhere to be found.
That's correct. Tubes produce primarily even numbered harmonics, like a chorus pedal but less pronounced. Solid state amps tend to produce more odd harmonics but a lot less of them.
I personally like the warmth of tubes, but that's because I LIKE the slight bit of distortion. It's pleasing to the ear.
But it's not accurately reproducing the audio.
I work in pro sound on DSP based audio mixers. They're freaking great, and that's what pros use. They do NOT use tubes because you can't rely on them, and because even harmonic distortion is still distortion.
A sad day when the only major OS company cannot sell the product they make unless they stop selling the product they made 5 years ago, as customers readily choose the latter.
Imagine if XP was a competitor's product, and was competing with Vista. Would Vista survive? If the answer is no, then it's not a competitive or viable product, and should be corrected, price adjusted, or scrapped.
Our company is really quite similar. I'm an involuntary anal sex specialist. We lure the customer in with our amazing pitch. It goes like this:
Free handjob! That's right, one free handjob, all you have to do is buy our specialist one drink! Every month thereafter, you'll receive a new sex act. If you don't like it, we will refund your money. Just call our 1-900 number to cancel, wait forty minutes on the phone listening to the phone ring while we party out back in our swimming pool filled with cash, and if you successfully cancel, Little Tony won't anally rape you dry anymore.
No, mentioning a product name does not infringe trademark. Calling your product Video Professor, when you're not the actual trademark owner, would constitute trademark infringement. However, if I sold hamburgers under the name Video Professor Burgers, I would not be infringing his trademark unless he had also registered it as a trademark for food.
But it IS a public issue. Consumers have a right to tell one another of their experience with retailers, manufacturers and service providers. It's called Reputation. If VPI thinks their reputation has been harmed, they are indirectly acknowledging that people talk about businesses, and that it's a key part of success in business.
They're saying they don't like their "reputation" and seek court relief from the fact that some of their clients are dissatisfied. That is ridiculous.
Something I could point out is that you're saying his business is legitimate because it's like a record club, about the worst and least popular businesses ever conceived on this planet.
You might as well compare him to gypsy fortune tellers, who are infinitely more popular and much more honest about their services.
Most of those subscription based scams require you to cancel, but post no phone number on their correspondence and when they do, it's never answered and has no voicemail.
This has been argued numerous times in court over numerous businesses' practices. Many are magazine subscription companies and record clubs.
Yes, true, but the point is that his advertisements are deliberately deceptive or misleading and his business model is supported entirely upon the backs of those you mention. I've seen his ads and not one of them even suggests that you will receive merchandise you don't ask for and will be billed for them. Most honest and intelligent people, when faced with the absolute truth of the subscription model, would not choose his services. If he believed otherwise, he would not put the truth in tiny print.
This is the epitome of a scam business. If you cannot tell potential customers the truth about what your product is and how it's delivered, and still expect that they will say "yes", then your business does not deserve to survive in the free market.
Many businesses thrive on a customer base that is uninformed about the actual state of their product or the method used to sell the product. Were it not so, then sweepstakes would not lead in their sales pitch with tiny print that says "if you have and return the winning number" followed by huge text that says YOU HAVE WON TWENTY BAZILLION DOLLARS!!!!!
Anyway, if he WAS an honest and legitimate business worth spending money with, he would attempt to remedy the problems of the past instead of litigating with SLAPP lawsuits to prevent people from criticizing his company. Obviously he has no concept of free speech, and doesn't realize he'll get his ass handed to him for filing a SLAPP.
Maybe his product works. Maybe it's real videos that help, maybe they're retarded- I don't know. However, logic tells me that when a dissatisfied customer is sued by the business in order to silence them, it is not a business I would allow to have my money.
My father worked in nonlethal warfare at Sandia National Laboratories, where this technology was developed. To a large degree the US anticipates that wars will be fought between the conventional uniformed militaries of the world and non-uniformed terrorists who use people's religious sensibilities to whip the locals into a frenzy and cause mayhem. A large mob behaves in ways that an individual would not, in most cases, and will engage an enemy it cannot possibly defeat. It is unnecessary and undesirable to kill these people, as given the chance to consider their decisions, it's likely they would not make them the same way. The US wants the ability to return to the negotiations table, which is impossible after a massacre of civilians (even if the civilians are firing rifles at you)(Propagandists are quick to turn a supressed riot into a massacre of innocents, and are offended easily). In addition, the US wants to be able to coerce potential combatants to leave an area which is sensitive from a military, social, or tactical perspective. These nonlethal methods, only one of which is the pain gun, are intended to drive away rioters, mobs, or the suicidal berzerker charges of people who have been fed a line of bull and are coming to kick some butt (and die). Prior to nonlethal warfare technologies, it was necessary for the soldiers in the field to defend themselves with the squad automatic weapon (SAW) and M-16s. The men my father worked for actually did care about unnecessary losses of life, and continue to seek methods to minimize the same.
Some of you may be paranoid and think that this is another way the government wants to control you like sheep. This is paranoid because the armed forces of the military is made of volunteers, many of which are extremely libertarian and would NEVER take up arms against their own people. As a former service member, I cannot imagine any scenario in which I would have obeyed an order to coerce, control, or inhibit the lawful actions of any US citizen.
Let me tell you that nearly 100 percent of the guys I served with, if faced with an order from an officer to shoot at law abiding US citizens, would turn the rifle on the officer before the civilian. The military is us. US. US means something to us. That said, if there were a group of rioters heading toward a sensitive facility intending to impede its operation or storm the gates, I would be perfectly willing to use a pain generator to convince them not to do so, as the alternative is fire on civilians. You can't arrest a riot. You must subdue, then arrest.
This is great because Tobey's done a GREAT job with Spiderman. He brought emotion to Spiderman, so much so that Spiderman is a pussy now. He was always an affable geeky type but come on, that bar scene belonged in The Mask, not Spiderman 3.
I have no doubt this will suck.
The threat of someone building a Saturn V for the purpose of terrorism is analogous to the threat of someone building a second moon to shade us from sunlight and destroy our crops.
A Saturn V is a very big thing. Even one Saturn engine is a big thing. Since the posters don't have usable dimensions (to 0.001 in) they're about as useless as a photograph of a nuclear weapon is to the construction of a nuclear weapon.
The reason we look for things in the heavens is because it gives us a larger-scale observation than the close up images we get of the way things work from down here. Just imagine how difficult it would be to study a nuclear submarine from the inside, whereas a picture taken from the outside would tell you what you were inside of. Otherwise, you would see passages, pipes, wires and apparatus but it would take a while to figure out what that all did if you'd never seen a submarine before (and were new to the concept).
The reason you can't do this is because the purpose of the telescope is light amplification and magnification. The magnification could maybe work without adaptive optics, but if the light from the object does not get intensified by the large amount of reflector area applied, then you end up with dim images. It's also difficult to get sharp images with DSP as the light coming in contains more information than the sensor can send to the DSP. If the DSP instead applies corrective measures to the optics, you capture the image on the CCD better than if you applied it to only the data. It's a matter of losing the data which is NOT gathered by the CCD as a result of atmospheric distortion which prevents such an approach.
You know, if I could design my avatar to look like ME and then use that avatar in most or some of my games, I would LOVE that.
Think of this: multiplayer shooters with your friends, each dressed as your friends, so you don't have to read their name to call out a warning of impending doom. Rick! To your left! would happen faster, and these avatars could span multiple games so you'd still recognize people you met in another game.
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That was my thought exactly. If this technology were implemented, how long would it be before some cracker used a robot to kill someone while they slept or something?
As has been stated ad nauseum, Gentoo is for ricers. link
It's ironic because the thing they violated copyright with was the very thing they implemented to prevent infringement of their own properties.
The point is that a significant amount of their design and marketing has been used to intentionally mislead customers into buying their product, instead of providing a decent product that customers would wish to purchase based on its merits. This type of thing should be illegal. If your only path to customers is through deception, you have no right to profit from business. Capitalism should not include deception. Ideal capitalism is competition based on merit at market prices. This is not that.
Just vacuum out the joint.
Oh. Never mind.
Wouldn't that make their computer the size of Milwaukee, and pull about a Gigawatt of power off of the grid?
I had to build a custom DSP and I use 5:1 compression with a 50ms attack and a 200ms release for television because filmmakers just LOVE to have super quiet dialog and extremely loud explosions just minutes apart.
I finally got sick of turning the volume up and down.
I find I still like the compression with my XBOX 360 because it allows me to hear quiet sounds without the loud sounds waking up the kids. I got a television with DSP built in, but the only options are stupid cathedral echo effects which don't do me any favors at all. Thanks a lot, Olevia. (Syntax Brillian) The ONE DSP function I would need, and it was nowhere to be found.
That's correct. Tubes produce primarily even numbered harmonics, like a chorus pedal but less pronounced. Solid state amps tend to produce more odd harmonics but a lot less of them. I personally like the warmth of tubes, but that's because I LIKE the slight bit of distortion. It's pleasing to the ear. But it's not accurately reproducing the audio. I work in pro sound on DSP based audio mixers. They're freaking great, and that's what pros use. They do NOT use tubes because you can't rely on them, and because even harmonic distortion is still distortion.
your amiga toaster. Funny, my Amiga HAD a toaster. Video Toaster to be precise.
A sad day when the only major OS company cannot sell the product they make unless they stop selling the product they made 5 years ago, as customers readily choose the latter. Imagine if XP was a competitor's product, and was competing with Vista. Would Vista survive? If the answer is no, then it's not a competitive or viable product, and should be corrected, price adjusted, or scrapped.
Spot on! XP finally works after numerous headaches, Vista offers me nothing, why would I change?
Yeah and how do I hit stuff while hopping around like a maniac? OMG AIMBOT FAGGOT GET OFF MY FACE
Our company is really quite similar. I'm an involuntary anal sex specialist. We lure the customer in with our amazing pitch. It goes like this:
Free handjob! That's right, one free handjob, all you have to do is buy our specialist one drink! Every month thereafter, you'll receive a new sex act. If you don't like it, we will refund your money. Just call our 1-900 number to cancel, wait forty minutes on the phone listening to the phone ring while we party out back in our swimming pool filled with cash, and if you successfully cancel, Little Tony won't anally rape you dry anymore.
And yet it is still illegal to promise one and deliver a sack of warm mud.
No, mentioning a product name does not infringe trademark. Calling your product Video Professor, when you're not the actual trademark owner, would constitute trademark infringement. However, if I sold hamburgers under the name Video Professor Burgers, I would not be infringing his trademark unless he had also registered it as a trademark for food.
But it IS a public issue. Consumers have a right to tell one another of their experience with retailers, manufacturers and service providers. It's called Reputation. If VPI thinks their reputation has been harmed, they are indirectly acknowledging that people talk about businesses, and that it's a key part of success in business. They're saying they don't like their "reputation" and seek court relief from the fact that some of their clients are dissatisfied. That is ridiculous.
Something I could point out is that you're saying his business is legitimate because it's like a record club, about the worst and least popular businesses ever conceived on this planet. You might as well compare him to gypsy fortune tellers, who are infinitely more popular and much more honest about their services. Most of those subscription based scams require you to cancel, but post no phone number on their correspondence and when they do, it's never answered and has no voicemail. This has been argued numerous times in court over numerous businesses' practices. Many are magazine subscription companies and record clubs.
Yes, true, but the point is that his advertisements are deliberately deceptive or misleading and his business model is supported entirely upon the backs of those you mention. I've seen his ads and not one of them even suggests that you will receive merchandise you don't ask for and will be billed for them. Most honest and intelligent people, when faced with the absolute truth of the subscription model, would not choose his services. If he believed otherwise, he would not put the truth in tiny print.
This is the epitome of a scam business. If you cannot tell potential customers the truth about what your product is and how it's delivered, and still expect that they will say "yes", then your business does not deserve to survive in the free market.
Many businesses thrive on a customer base that is uninformed about the actual state of their product or the method used to sell the product. Were it not so, then sweepstakes would not lead in their sales pitch with tiny print that says "if you have and return the winning number" followed by huge text that says YOU HAVE WON TWENTY BAZILLION DOLLARS!!!!!
Anyway, if he WAS an honest and legitimate business worth spending money with, he would attempt to remedy the problems of the past instead of litigating with SLAPP lawsuits to prevent people from criticizing his company. Obviously he has no concept of free speech, and doesn't realize he'll get his ass handed to him for filing a SLAPP.
Maybe his product works. Maybe it's real videos that help, maybe they're retarded- I don't know. However, logic tells me that when a dissatisfied customer is sued by the business in order to silence them, it is not a business I would allow to have my money.
My father worked in nonlethal warfare at Sandia National Laboratories, where this technology was developed. To a large degree the US anticipates that wars will be fought between the conventional uniformed militaries of the world and non-uniformed terrorists who use people's religious sensibilities to whip the locals into a frenzy and cause mayhem. A large mob behaves in ways that an individual would not, in most cases, and will engage an enemy it cannot possibly defeat.
It is unnecessary and undesirable to kill these people, as given the chance to consider their decisions, it's likely they would not make them the same way. The US wants the ability to return to the negotiations table, which is impossible after a massacre of civilians (even if the civilians are firing rifles at you)(Propagandists are quick to turn a supressed riot into a massacre of innocents, and are offended easily). In addition, the US wants to be able to coerce potential combatants to leave an area which is sensitive from a military, social, or tactical perspective.
These nonlethal methods, only one of which is the pain gun, are intended to drive away rioters, mobs, or the suicidal berzerker charges of people who have been fed a line of bull and are coming to kick some butt (and die).
Prior to nonlethal warfare technologies, it was necessary for the soldiers in the field to defend themselves with the squad automatic weapon (SAW) and M-16s.
The men my father worked for actually did care about unnecessary losses of life, and continue to seek methods to minimize the same. Some of you may be paranoid and think that this is another way the government wants to control you like sheep. This is paranoid because the armed forces of the military is made of volunteers, many of which are extremely libertarian and would NEVER take up arms against their own people. As a former service member, I cannot imagine any scenario in which I would have obeyed an order to coerce, control, or inhibit the lawful actions of any US citizen. Let me tell you that nearly 100 percent of the guys I served with, if faced with an order from an officer to shoot at law abiding US citizens, would turn the rifle on the officer before the civilian. The military is us. US. US means something to us.
That said, if there were a group of rioters heading toward a sensitive facility intending to impede its operation or storm the gates, I would be perfectly willing to use a pain generator to convince them not to do so, as the alternative is fire on civilians. You can't arrest a riot. You must subdue, then arrest.
This is great because Tobey's done a GREAT job with Spiderman. He brought emotion to Spiderman, so much so that Spiderman is a pussy now. He was always an affable geeky type but come on, that bar scene belonged in The Mask, not Spiderman 3. I have no doubt this will suck.
The threat of someone building a Saturn V for the purpose of terrorism is analogous to the threat of someone building a second moon to shade us from sunlight and destroy our crops.
A Saturn V is a very big thing. Even one Saturn engine is a big thing. Since the posters don't have usable dimensions (to 0.001 in) they're about as useless as a photograph of a nuclear weapon is to the construction of a nuclear weapon.
The reason we look for things in the heavens is because it gives us a larger-scale observation than the close up images we get of the way things work from down here. Just imagine how difficult it would be to study a nuclear submarine from the inside, whereas a picture taken from the outside would tell you what you were inside of. Otherwise, you would see passages, pipes, wires and apparatus but it would take a while to figure out what that all did if you'd never seen a submarine before (and were new to the concept).
The reason you can't do this is because the purpose of the telescope is light amplification and magnification. The magnification could maybe work without adaptive optics, but if the light from the object does not get intensified by the large amount of reflector area applied, then you end up with dim images. It's also difficult to get sharp images with DSP as the light coming in contains more information than the sensor can send to the DSP. If the DSP instead applies corrective measures to the optics, you capture the image on the CCD better than if you applied it to only the data. It's a matter of losing the data which is NOT gathered by the CCD as a result of atmospheric distortion which prevents such an approach.
You know, if I could design my avatar to look like ME and then use that avatar in most or some of my games, I would LOVE that. Think of this: multiplayer shooters with your friends, each dressed as your friends, so you don't have to read their name to call out a warning of impending doom. Rick! To your left! would happen faster, and these avatars could span multiple games so you'd still recognize people you met in another game.
Actually they use DNF in racing to refer recursively to Duke Nukem Forever, which was first announced at the dawn of automobile racing.