Drop the number of reporters to one and you'll see feeds with only one of two types of questions: A. "When did you stop beating your wife?" B. "Aren't those lovely flowers?"
If you think we subsidize grain for national security reasons, you are one colossal dupe. It's done because ag companies have political power, and any other "reason" is just a smoke screen. The USA is a huge exporter of food, and government help is not needed to maintain that condition, because the gov't also a major impediment to the production of food and everything else.
Your claim that newspapers (in the modern sense) are a centuries-old industry is true, but just barely. Newspapers sprung up about the time of the American Revolution (230 years ago) and took some time to get substantial circulation. (Ref.: Essays of Mark Twain)
Quality aside, many news sources have no idea how to act economically. 2 years ago, the New Haven TV station sent a news crew (at least 3 people) to Stamford (about 40 miles), waiting over 3 hours to do a 3 minute remote broadcast near the beach, at night, where nothing was happening. It was a report on Lime disease or West Nile encephalitis or some such, absolutely no point in doing the remote. I don't know what their real expenses were, but it seems they must have wasted at least $400.
When news organizations can be serious about their expenses, I'll begin to feel some concern about their financial problems.
I don't know what they're doing, but I see two possibilities.
One is raster scan, which others have mentioned, which involves moving mirrors and modulating the lasers. I've been told this is not practical due to the physical difficulties of controlling fast moving mirrors. (But this advice is 20 years old.)
The other is the Texas Instruments micromirror approach. The laser beam is diverged to cover the whole mirror chip, and individual micromirror movements modulate each pixel.
Regardless of the merits of painting roofs white, how is this a one-time benefit? Once painted white, they're white as long as maintained. If they're made of white materials, they're white "forever."
Similarly, the claim of cutting carbon emissions by as much as taking all cars off the road for eleven years fails the dimensional analysis test. Having all white roofs for how long makes that equivalence?
Come on people, try to think these things through.
Limbaugh's stated understanding of the white paint issue is so astonishingly stupid it makes me cringe.
His respect for what he thinks are good representatives of conservatism regardless of color is obvious to anyone who bothers to pay attention. His call screener, James Golden ("Bo Snurdley"), is black. So is his best substitute host, Walter E. Williams.
The problem here is that free can be determined objectively. Absence of coercion is a physically identifiable condition. Fair is subjective, generally interpreted to be "I and my buddies got a good deal, and I didn't hear about anyone I agree with politically being hurt." Not the same thing, not even related.
Fuel line freeze is a possible (but unusual) problem in gasoline powered cars, not due to gasoline, but due to water. Not all gas stations are completely successful in keeping water out of their underground storage tanks. Methanol or ethanol in gasoline mixes with the water and is an antifreeze for the water.
This is not a high temperature superconductor. It only superconducts under 2 degrees K, when compressed to an extreme degree. It is of academic interest only.
For those of you not from NH, a road that is not "class V or better" is usually an unmaintained single lane dirt road. Quite often, it is too deeply rutted for a passenger car to pass, and some are flooded in the springtime. Branches scrape both sides of the car simultaneously.
Very Long Instruction Word machines. TI has a class of VLIW DSP machines. I think they're appropriate only in a limited set of applications, where the state of the art is being pushed. VLIW competes with multicore machines and vector machines, both of which have very active development.
Cray, as a moderate-sized leading-edge company, was defeated by having one of their key technologies go obsolete. Speed-of-light limitations make large computers based on "bit-slice" chips impossible above about 10 MHz for TTL, 20 MHz for ECL.
Tying together a bunch of X86s or other commodity CPUs is an easier job and there are plenty of companies that can match whatever Cray does in that regard.
There were 2-sided Laserdisc players, with read heads on both sides of the disk.
Other faults of Laserdisc were expense, reliability. When DVD came along the convenience, price, and superior A/V quality overwhelmed the marginal Laserdisc market.
Anybody can sit around all day and come up with ideas.
It ain't always that easy. Some ideas take years to get to the point that they can be made into a saleable product, yet they can be ripped off with a few days of effort. Without protection, why develop the idea in the first place?
These people are a drain on the economy. They provide nothing of value, waste your time, waste their own lives. Think how much richer we all would be if they spent their time, for instance, making small rocks out of big rocks.
You see in your analytics report of hits that a significant percentage of viewers are running AdBlock.
WTF! If it's possible for a site I visit to see that I'm running AdBlock, there's something seriously wrong. Is AdBlock or Firefox reporting AdBlock's presence? That's really intrusive.
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Drop the number of reporters to one and you'll see feeds with only one of two types of questions: A. "When did you stop beating your wife?" B. "Aren't those lovely flowers?"
If you think we subsidize grain for national security reasons, you are one colossal dupe. It's done because ag companies have political power, and any other "reason" is just a smoke screen. The USA is a huge exporter of food, and government help is not needed to maintain that condition, because the gov't also a major impediment to the production of food and everything else.
Your claim that newspapers (in the modern sense) are a centuries-old industry is true, but just barely. Newspapers sprung up about the time of the American Revolution (230 years ago) and took some time to get substantial circulation. (Ref.: Essays of Mark Twain)
Quality aside, many news sources have no idea how to act economically. 2 years ago, the New Haven TV station sent a news crew (at least 3 people) to Stamford (about 40 miles), waiting over 3 hours to do a 3 minute remote broadcast near the beach, at night, where nothing was happening . It was a report on Lime disease or West Nile encephalitis or some such, absolutely no point in doing the remote. I don't know what their real expenses were, but it seems they must have wasted at least $400.
When news organizations can be serious about their expenses, I'll begin to feel some concern about their financial problems.
I don't know what they're doing, but I see two possibilities.
One is raster scan, which others have mentioned, which involves moving mirrors and modulating the lasers. I've been told this is not practical due to the physical difficulties of controlling fast moving mirrors. (But this advice is 20 years old.)
The other is the Texas Instruments micromirror approach. The laser beam is diverged to cover the whole mirror chip, and individual micromirror movements modulate each pixel.
Similarly, the claim of cutting carbon emissions by as much as taking all cars off the road for eleven years fails the dimensional analysis test. Having all white roofs for how long makes that equivalence?
Come on people, try to think these things through.
Limbaugh's stated understanding of the white paint issue is so astonishingly stupid it makes me cringe.
His respect for what he thinks are good representatives of conservatism regardless of color is obvious to anyone who bothers to pay attention. His call screener, James Golden ("Bo Snurdley"), is black. So is his best substitute host, Walter E. Williams.
The problem here is that free can be determined objectively. Absence of coercion is a physically identifiable condition. Fair is subjective, generally interpreted to be "I and my buddies got a good deal, and I didn't hear about anyone I agree with politically being hurt." Not the same thing, not even related.
It ought to be obvious that a party named "Worker's Party" is after nothing but power.
Fuel line freeze is a possible (but unusual) problem in gasoline powered cars, not due to gasoline, but due to water. Not all gas stations are completely successful in keeping water out of their underground storage tanks. Methanol or ethanol in gasoline mixes with the water and is an antifreeze for the water.
Good grief, it's source code. You can look at it to see if there's anything wrong.
This is not a high temperature superconductor. It only superconducts under 2 degrees K, when compressed to an extreme degree. It is of academic interest only.
BS. CO2 is part of a feedback mechanism reminding humans to breath. To be a pollutant, CO2 would have to be at many times its current level.
This disaster doesn't take effect until the second term that Obama hopes for is almost over. He can avoid taking blame for the economic meltdown.
For those of you not from NH, a road that is not "class V or better" is usually an unmaintained single lane dirt road. Quite often, it is too deeply rutted for a passenger car to pass, and some are flooded in the springtime. Branches scrape both sides of the car simultaneously.
Very Long Instruction Word machines. TI has a class of VLIW DSP machines. I think they're appropriate only in a limited set of applications, where the state of the art is being pushed. VLIW competes with multicore machines and vector machines, both of which have very active development.
Cray, as a moderate-sized leading-edge company, was defeated by having one of their key technologies go obsolete. Speed-of-light limitations make large computers based on "bit-slice" chips impossible above about 10 MHz for TTL, 20 MHz for ECL.
Tying together a bunch of X86s or other commodity CPUs is an easier job and there are plenty of companies that can match whatever Cray does in that regard.
There were 2-sided Laserdisc players, with read heads on both sides of the disk.
Other faults of Laserdisc were expense, reliability. When DVD came along the convenience, price, and superior A/V quality overwhelmed the marginal Laserdisc market.
It is not "denying freedom of religion" to prevent the typical Muslim practice of murdering its opponents. The why is obvious.
It ain't always that easy. Some ideas take years to get to the point that they can be made into a saleable product, yet they can be ripped off with a few days of effort. Without protection, why develop the idea in the first place?
Obviously, your "broke students" pissed away their money before they took an ethics course.
These people are a drain on the economy. They provide nothing of value, waste your time, waste their own lives. Think how much richer we all would be if they spent their time, for instance, making small rocks out of big rocks.
Nationalism is not Racism.
James A. Traficant was expelled from Congress and sent to jail.
WTF! If it's possible for a site I visit to see that I'm running AdBlock, there's something seriously wrong. Is AdBlock or Firefox reporting AdBlock's presence? That's really intrusive.