The Los Angeles metro area has 4 times the population of San Francisco's metro area. Solving the traffic problem would require 4 times the roadway that SF has: 4 or more superhighways from the San Fernando Valley to Santa Monica - Palos Verdes - etc. to replace 405, and 4 train lines down the Sepulveda Pass where there is nothing now. The cost would be astronomical - just acquiring the right of way from Granada Hills to Long Beach would easily exceed 30 billion dollars even if the whole distance were only through lower middle class residential neighborhoods. (My quick estimate.)
In one sense, global is the sum of local over all places. You can't have one without the other.
In another sense, global means everywhere. In this sense, if each and every place warms then there's global warming. If even one place doesn't warm, there's no global warming.
Sorry, that's just the language. If the meaning of words isn't satisfactory to you, your choice to use them as if they were satisfactory to you is a lie.
Many young people can hear frequencies higher than the 22.05 kHz maximum of 44.1 kHz sampling. I could hear up to about 27 kHz at 30 years old; both I and a friend of mine found places with so-called ultrasonic alarms painful.
Similarly, 16 bit audio is good for no more than 98 dB, but it's well established that the human audio dynamic range is at least 120 dB.
If the tests are set up to make the differences between 44.1/16 and 192/24 easy to detect, many people can detect the difference. If the tests are set up to make the differences difficult to detect (for instance by trying to distinguish between two highly distorted highly compressed pop songs) it may be that nobody or only an extraordinary person can tell the difference.
Drive-wheel turntables were available with continuously variable speeds, usually achieved with a conical drive wheel. Probably not a high quality mechanism.
What's wrong with a leisure society and guaranteed minimum livable conditions for all?
What you have just proposed is impossible. When living no longer requires work, so few people will work that there won't be enough goods to maintain life, let alone leisure.
You are probably too innocent to realize it, but there are people who will destroy things just for the fun of it if there's no punishment and the stuff gets replaced automatically. Would you be willing to work so that such a person could continue his lifestyle?
Human audio dynamic range is about 120 dB (threshold of hearing to threshold of pain). That means samples of 20 bits are required for perfection. Practically it's not necessary, because after a +120dB burst it takes seconds or minutes to recover full sensitivity.
In the early days of CDs, delta-sigma devices were not always used. Some systems used a true analog 44.1 kHz sampling rate using high precision devices from Burr-Brown and others. These devices would indeed produce stair-step patterns, and even with severe analog filtering some 22.05 kHz and aliased nearby frequencies would appear in the output. Young people with exceptional hearing could detect it, particularly after some training.
Technology has improved, and it's no longer difficult to design a system without that problem, but there was a time when it was a problem.
Modern audio ADCs and DACs use delta-sigma technology, which does most of the filtering in the digital domain.No significant analog filtering occurs in the 20kHz-22kHz region. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation
The thug was trying to force the gun out of the police officer's hand before the first shot was fired. It's hard for a threat to be more serious than that.
The thug was under the influence of mind-degrading drugs. Such people often keep fighting violently even after being shot several times. The pain/shock reflex that stops sober people is disabled.
A panicked person might well keep firing until the gun is empty. I've heard (I don't know if it's true) that police are trained in such situations to keep firing.
The people in charge at the start of the Korean and Vietnam wars were born before 1940, which rules out the Boomers. Do you really think 7-year-olds were in command in Korea?
The alternative you clearly prefer is to continue the degradation of civilization. There is no other possible alternative; things either get better or they get worse. You have consciously and deliberately chosen making things worse.
BTW, why didn't the people who were living there improve it?
Another limit is lenses. For most lenses compatible with a 35 mm format, 4k is close to where the image doesn't become any more detailed by using a higher resolution sensor. That's not to say that equipment with good detail at 8k can't be made, but it means lots of money and loss of depth-of-field.
Resolution has always been a one dimensional measurement. Sharpness is measured in one dimension, and is perceived in one dimension. Going from 640x480 to 1280x960 looks twice as good, not 4 times as good.
A 4x increase in resolution is not a 4x increase in pixels, it's a 16x increase in pixels, assuming the aspect ration is unchanged.
Are you aware that many pharmaceutical companies have stopped making vaccines because of the risk of lawsuits and the enormous price to insure against lawsuits? The combination of loonies and lawyers is capable of almost unlimited damage.
Most of the citations, alas, are in the right wing media, but the left wing media mostly buries the story.
It does make perfect sense, many illegal aliens come from countries without mandatory vaccination, many come from countries with exotic tropical diseases. Diseases are popping up where there are concentrations of illegal aliens: big cities, border towns, and places where the Obama administration has shipped bunches of new arrivals.
****** It takes 2 things for an attack against the United States to be successful: disarmament and an attacker. This applies both to warfare and disease. *******
Among otherwise healthy children (well nourished, no other active diseases, no abnormal immune system) the fatality rate for measles is almost 0. (Below 2 PPM). I am not arguing against measles vaccination, just that you should not be supporting vaccination with a defective argument.
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If bus rides are priced for what they're worth, then there are two possibilities:
A free bus is a shelter for the homeless and puking drunkards.
The Los Angeles metro area has 4 times the population of San Francisco's metro area. Solving the traffic problem would require 4 times the roadway that SF has: 4 or more superhighways from the San Fernando Valley to Santa Monica - Palos Verdes - etc. to replace 405, and 4 train lines down the Sepulveda Pass where there is nothing now. The cost would be astronomical - just acquiring the right of way from Granada Hills to Long Beach would easily exceed 30 billion dollars even if the whole distance were only through lower middle class residential neighborhoods. (My quick estimate.)
Your chain of cause and effect is laughable. Violent people will be violent whether crowded or not.
Slums aren't prisons. Anyone with legs can leave.
10 mph is faster than rush hours on the 405.
In one sense, global is the sum of local over all places. You can't have one without the other.
In another sense, global means everywhere. In this sense, if each and every place warms then there's global warming. If even one place doesn't warm, there's no global warming.
Sorry, that's just the language. If the meaning of words isn't satisfactory to you, your choice to use them as if they were satisfactory to you is a lie.
Note the use of the present tense. For the statement to be true, global warming must be happening NOW.
Many young people can hear frequencies higher than the 22.05 kHz maximum of 44.1 kHz sampling. I could hear up to about 27 kHz at 30 years old; both I and a friend of mine found places with so-called ultrasonic alarms painful.
Similarly, 16 bit audio is good for no more than 98 dB, but it's well established that the human audio dynamic range is at least 120 dB.
If the tests are set up to make the differences between 44.1/16 and 192/24 easy to detect, many people can detect the difference. If the tests are set up to make the differences difficult to detect (for instance by trying to distinguish between two highly distorted highly compressed pop songs) it may be that nobody or only an extraordinary person can tell the difference.
Drive-wheel turntables were available with continuously variable speeds, usually achieved with a conical drive wheel. Probably not a high quality mechanism.
Ignoring your dubious argument, here's an improvement to your approximation:
SNR(db) = 6.02*n + 1.761, where n is the number of bits, for a sine wave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio
What you have just proposed is impossible. When living no longer requires work, so few people will work that there won't be enough goods to maintain life, let alone leisure.
You are probably too innocent to realize it, but there are people who will destroy things just for the fun of it if there's no punishment and the stuff gets replaced automatically. Would you be willing to work so that such a person could continue his lifestyle?
Human audio dynamic range is about 120 dB (threshold of hearing to threshold of pain). That means samples of 20 bits are required for perfection. Practically it's not necessary, because after a +120dB burst it takes seconds or minutes to recover full sensitivity.
In the early days of CDs, delta-sigma devices were not always used. Some systems used a true analog 44.1 kHz sampling rate using high precision devices from Burr-Brown and others. These devices would indeed produce stair-step patterns, and even with severe analog filtering some 22.05 kHz and aliased nearby frequencies would appear in the output. Young people with exceptional hearing could detect it, particularly after some training.
Technology has improved, and it's no longer difficult to design a system without that problem, but there was a time when it was a problem.
Modern audio ADCs and DACs use delta-sigma technology, which does most of the filtering in the digital domain.No significant analog filtering occurs in the 20kHz-22kHz region. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation
The thug was trying to force the gun out of the police officer's hand before the first shot was fired. It's hard for a threat to be more serious than that.
The thug was under the influence of mind-degrading drugs. Such people often keep fighting violently even after being shot several times. The pain/shock reflex that stops sober people is disabled.
A panicked person might well keep firing until the gun is empty. I've heard (I don't know if it's true) that police are trained in such situations to keep firing.
From Socrates to the collapse of the Greek Empire after Alexander the Great's death is about 75 years. It is very tempting to claim cause and effect.
Considering that much of what we know of Socrates is from Plato, who had his own axe to grind, the number of years may be even less.
The people in charge at the start of the Korean and Vietnam wars were born before 1940, which rules out the Boomers. Do you really think 7-year-olds were in command in Korea?
The alternative you clearly prefer is to continue the degradation of civilization. There is no other possible alternative; things either get better or they get worse. You have consciously and deliberately chosen making things worse.
BTW, why didn't the people who were living there improve it?
Among whores.
Another limit is lenses. For most lenses compatible with a 35 mm format, 4k is close to where the image doesn't become any more detailed by using a higher resolution sensor. That's not to say that equipment with good detail at 8k can't be made, but it means lots of money and loss of depth-of-field.
Resolution has always been a one dimensional measurement. Sharpness is measured in one dimension, and is perceived in one dimension. Going from 640x480 to 1280x960 looks twice as good, not 4 times as good.
A 4x increase in resolution is not a 4x increase in pixels, it's a 16x increase in pixels, assuming the aspect ration is unchanged.
Are you aware that many pharmaceutical companies have stopped making vaccines because of the risk of lawsuits and the enormous price to insure against lawsuits? The combination of loonies and lawyers is capable of almost unlimited damage.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/6/diseases-still-problem-illegal-immigrant-families/?page=all
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/07/illegal-alien-minors-spreading-tb-ebola-dengue-swine-flu/
Most of the citations, alas, are in the right wing media, but the left wing media mostly buries the story.
It does make perfect sense, many illegal aliens come from countries without mandatory vaccination, many come from countries with exotic tropical diseases. Diseases are popping up where there are concentrations of illegal aliens: big cities, border towns, and places where the Obama administration has shipped bunches of new arrivals.
****** It takes 2 things for an attack against the United States to be successful: disarmament and an attacker. This applies both to warfare and disease. *******
Among otherwise healthy children (well nourished, no other active diseases, no abnormal immune system) the fatality rate for measles is almost 0. (Below 2 PPM). I am not arguing against measles vaccination, just that you should not be supporting vaccination with a defective argument.
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