Merging with Quebec.... not such a good idea.
I am from BC - being in the same country as
Quebec is like being married to a beautiful
woman that nags you half to death, constantly
threatens to leave you and never does, and
spends all of your money on clothes.
I also have a 10 foot CRT projection system, and I
am fine with DVD through a line quadrupler.
It is actually better if they wait - if
we get a HDTV DVD format too soon, then the
hurdle will not be worth making to 1080p 60fps.
Once you get to HDTV DVD, I doubt that there
will be another upgrade. If there is consumer
acceptance of 1080i then the 1080p/60 may never
happen.
The ipod sounds ok when you use the
earpods, but once you hook it up to
a good stereo, it kind of blows, even
with the uncompressed audio format.
I think that apple put a lousy D/A
converter in the iPod, and compensated
with changes in the earpods to make it
sound good.
You are much better off taking the digital
output of a G5 mac, running it to an external
D/A converter, and then to a tube based
stereo. The toslink output will need to be
converted to AES/EBU or something if you
want a digital run over 1 meter.
Yes you can have it all, because Cisco has
an 80% margin or something. You can under
charge them by a whole lot and still make money.
You could spend twice as much per customer
to get them more of what they want, charge
half what Cisco does, and still make money.
BTW - NASA sucks. They spend way too much money
to accomplish way too little, so not a good
example there.
Yes it will - I play DVDs on component out
all the time with my PS-2.
For some reason, the geometry is different,
though, when you play games or dvds. I
have the PS2 driving a line quadrupler and
CRT projector - DVDs fill up the whole 120"
screen, but games are about 12" smaller and
shifted a little to one side.
The hard part would not be getting the
pump to vary the speed, but the control
hardware to set the speed.
How would the pump be able to figure out
that you need more oxygen in your muscles?
Re:Apple is dying: Sell stock now.
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I think that you need to take another
look at the balance sheet - you didn't
notice that they paid off $400 million
in debt, so (cash - debt) went up.
$30 billion will buy back 1 billion shares -
which is how many shares Bill Gates has.
I wonder if Bill will take advantage of the
stock buyback in order to sell his whole
stake in the company?
No - I disagree. Anyone who bothers to listen to the difference can tell. Most of slashdot is populated with peope who make up their mind from the theory instead of the experience (in this and all things 8-). Sit your average person down, and they will hear the difference, particularly if female (women have better hearing, on average).
In my system, the difference between tube and solid state, and between CD and Vinyl is completely clear and audible to everyone who has listened.
If I had no experience listening, I would also be saying that transistors are better.
That is why you need a libertarian congress and
house, not just a president.
George Bush is no libertarian - he is financially
irresponsible and erodes civil liberties with
abandon. I will continue to vote libertarian,
hopefully we will start getting enough of the
vote to make the other parties co-opt some of
our platform.
"Joining the big player's game" is just another
way of saying "Sell your soul to the devil".
The republicans are not financially or socially
responsible, and their views are so far from
the Libertarian platform that the Democrats
would be much better.
On social issues, the Libertarian party is the
most "left leaning" of all the parties - for example:
it is the only party to endorse gay marriage,
unlimited imegration, legalized drugs, closure
of all foreign military bases, withdrawel from
the UN and NATO, and no death penalty.
On fiscal issues, the libertarians are the most
right wing (no taxes, shut down 90% of the
governmant, pay off national debt, get rid
of all social welfare programs, etc).
Bush is the Libertarian antichrist. Everything
we want, he does the oposite.
Can you be a little more useful in your
references please? There is no way that
we are going to be able to do a google
search on "The Lottery" and figure out
what the heck you are talking about.
Also, I find your "chinese guy" reference
a little offensive. Not only that, but
in my experience the people (chinese or
not) who work 80 hours per week all the time
are not particularly more productive than
the 40-50 hour people - and they don't get
higher salaries as far as I can see.
I think that we have an unusual spread of
salaries now, because anyone who made it
through the massive layoffs still has the
"boom time/stop the hiring raids from
competitors" salary, which is 2x the salary
of everybody else. At least it is like
that in telecom.
From the earlier organic screen story, you will
be able to paper an entire wall or ceiling with
flexible display wallpaper. I think that 450"
will be a stretch, but I bet most people will
be able to fit a 150" screen on one wall or
another.
I have a CRT projector, and a 120" screen -
I can tell you that the 1080i HDTV signal
coming out of my DirectTv receiver is far
from photorealistic. I don't think we need
UHDTV yet, but I would be pretty happy if we
got HDTV+ with 2000x3200 pixels at 60Hz
progressive.
I think that the general world hatred of
American ties into this - a big chunck of the
western European population wants to blame
us for whatever they can. In circles of
rational discussion, the causes (but not
the existence) of global warming are open
to debate.
I grew up in western Canada, and so I hate
the French Canadians. Any time somebody says
something bad about Quebec, I pretty much take
it at face value, and add it to my list of
grievences without any rational crosscheck, it
is quite a struggle for me to notice my bias
and account for it. It is the same with
Europeans view of Americans.
It looks like there is no longer a population
control problem.
I googled HIV and population, and the estimates
I found show that HIV will trim
2 billion people off the current estimates.
So the world population will peak at 7 billion
in 2050, and then start going down.
Really big honkin' rocks hit the earth every
X million years, so it seems like they
would hit the moon every (X*6) million years or
so - why is the moon still there?
I would like to see standard (bluetooth?)
interfaces to the stereo and telephone keypad/
handsfree/antenna in every car.
So, for example, in 2007 - I have a brand new
iPod phone. I get into any car, and I can
controll the iPod via the stereo controlls, and
it plays through the car stereo. The phone
hooks up to the cars antenna and keypad - if
I receive a call it routes through the handsfree,
and I can make calls via the keypad.
I know that some of this is already available,
but it is not standard or widely used.
The difference between the turbo and normally
asperated car is a turbocharger, intercooler,
and probably stronger cylender walls.
You don't need computer access to see the
difference, just a pair of eyes and/or ears.
Get used to it. Most of your taxes after
college will be wasted, and the rest will
go to programs that you don't use.
$50/year or whatever is nothing, prepare
yourself for the great screwing.
Pepsi spends 33 cents per bottle (99 cents
per tune, 100 million bottles out of 300 million
contain iTunes codes).
Do they even make 33 cents profit on a bottle
of cola? I doubt it...
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Merging with Quebec.... not such a good idea. I am from BC - being in the same country as Quebec is like being married to a beautiful woman that nags you half to death, constantly threatens to leave you and never does, and spends all of your money on clothes.
I also have a 10 foot CRT projection system, and I am fine with DVD through a line quadrupler. It is actually better if they wait - if we get a HDTV DVD format too soon, then the hurdle will not be worth making to 1080p 60fps. Once you get to HDTV DVD, I doubt that there will be another upgrade. If there is consumer acceptance of 1080i then the 1080p/60 may never happen.
The ipod sounds ok when you use the earpods, but once you hook it up to a good stereo, it kind of blows, even with the uncompressed audio format. I think that apple put a lousy D/A converter in the iPod, and compensated with changes in the earpods to make it sound good. You are much better off taking the digital output of a G5 mac, running it to an external D/A converter, and then to a tube based stereo. The toslink output will need to be converted to AES/EBU or something if you want a digital run over 1 meter.
Yes you can have it all, because Cisco has an 80% margin or something. You can under charge them by a whole lot and still make money. You could spend twice as much per customer to get them more of what they want, charge half what Cisco does, and still make money. BTW - NASA sucks. They spend way too much money to accomplish way too little, so not a good example there.
Sorry - www.ontheissues.org
www.ontheissues.com
Yes it will - I play DVDs on component out all the time with my PS-2. For some reason, the geometry is different, though, when you play games or dvds. I have the PS2 driving a line quadrupler and CRT projector - DVDs fill up the whole 120" screen, but games are about 12" smaller and shifted a little to one side.
The hard part would not be getting the pump to vary the speed, but the control hardware to set the speed. How would the pump be able to figure out that you need more oxygen in your muscles?
I think that you need to take another look at the balance sheet - you didn't notice that they paid off $400 million in debt, so (cash - debt) went up.
$30 billion will buy back 1 billion shares - which is how many shares Bill Gates has. I wonder if Bill will take advantage of the stock buyback in order to sell his whole stake in the company?
No - I disagree. Anyone who bothers to listen to
the difference can tell. Most of slashdot is populated
with peope who make up their mind from the theory
instead of the experience (in this and all things 8-).
Sit your average person down, and they will hear the
difference, particularly if female (women have better
hearing, on average).
In my system, the difference
between tube and solid state, and between CD and Vinyl
is completely clear and audible to everyone who has listened.
If I had no experience listening, I would also be saying
that transistors are better.
That is why you need a libertarian congress and house, not just a president. George Bush is no libertarian - he is financially irresponsible and erodes civil liberties with abandon. I will continue to vote libertarian, hopefully we will start getting enough of the vote to make the other parties co-opt some of our platform. "Joining the big player's game" is just another way of saying "Sell your soul to the devil". The republicans are not financially or socially responsible, and their views are so far from the Libertarian platform that the Democrats would be much better.
I read the story - and I still don't understand what you are talking about. What does this have to do with the demographics of pay?
On social issues, the Libertarian party is the most "left leaning" of all the parties - for example: it is the only party to endorse gay marriage, unlimited imegration, legalized drugs, closure of all foreign military bases, withdrawel from the UN and NATO, and no death penalty. On fiscal issues, the libertarians are the most right wing (no taxes, shut down 90% of the governmant, pay off national debt, get rid of all social welfare programs, etc). Bush is the Libertarian antichrist. Everything we want, he does the oposite.
So you have to know every book or else be called a boob? I come from a rich culture, it is just different from yours, Mr. Coward.
Can you be a little more useful in your references please? There is no way that we are going to be able to do a google search on "The Lottery" and figure out what the heck you are talking about. Also, I find your "chinese guy" reference a little offensive. Not only that, but in my experience the people (chinese or not) who work 80 hours per week all the time are not particularly more productive than the 40-50 hour people - and they don't get higher salaries as far as I can see. I think that we have an unusual spread of salaries now, because anyone who made it through the massive layoffs still has the "boom time/stop the hiring raids from competitors" salary, which is 2x the salary of everybody else. At least it is like that in telecom.
From the earlier organic screen story, you will be able to paper an entire wall or ceiling with flexible display wallpaper. I think that 450" will be a stretch, but I bet most people will be able to fit a 150" screen on one wall or another. I have a CRT projector, and a 120" screen - I can tell you that the 1080i HDTV signal coming out of my DirectTv receiver is far from photorealistic. I don't think we need UHDTV yet, but I would be pretty happy if we got HDTV+ with 2000x3200 pixels at 60Hz progressive.
I think that the general world hatred of American ties into this - a big chunck of the western European population wants to blame us for whatever they can. In circles of rational discussion, the causes (but not the existence) of global warming are open to debate. I grew up in western Canada, and so I hate the French Canadians. Any time somebody says something bad about Quebec, I pretty much take it at face value, and add it to my list of grievences without any rational crosscheck, it is quite a struggle for me to notice my bias and account for it. It is the same with Europeans view of Americans.
Bipolar Junction Transistor?
It looks like there is no longer a population control problem. I googled HIV and population, and the estimates I found show that HIV will trim 2 billion people off the current estimates. So the world population will peak at 7 billion in 2050, and then start going down.
Really big honkin' rocks hit the earth every X million years, so it seems like they would hit the moon every (X*6) million years or so - why is the moon still there?
I would like to see standard (bluetooth?) interfaces to the stereo and telephone keypad/ handsfree/antenna in every car. So, for example, in 2007 - I have a brand new iPod phone. I get into any car, and I can controll the iPod via the stereo controlls, and it plays through the car stereo. The phone hooks up to the cars antenna and keypad - if I receive a call it routes through the handsfree, and I can make calls via the keypad. I know that some of this is already available, but it is not standard or widely used.
The difference between the turbo and normally asperated car is a turbocharger, intercooler, and probably stronger cylender walls. You don't need computer access to see the difference, just a pair of eyes and/or ears.
Get used to it. Most of your taxes after college will be wasted, and the rest will go to programs that you don't use. $50/year or whatever is nothing, prepare yourself for the great screwing.
Pepsi spends 33 cents per bottle (99 cents per tune, 100 million bottles out of 300 million contain iTunes codes). Do they even make 33 cents profit on a bottle of cola? I doubt it...