Lots of windbagging going on here but nobody here has mentioned that Belguim's smart card system is based partly on the Free Software (LGPL) OpenSC tools.
You hit the issue almost perfectly, but you should note the linked PDF isn't just similar to dim-bulb tax protest manifestos, it is in fact a dim-bulb tax protest manifesto. Chech out the main part of that site, which links to other fine documents such as "The Great IRS Hoax", "Income Tax Freedom", and, my favorite, "Social Security: Mark of the Beast."
Well now we know, the high school kids are ignorant because they've been listening to this misinformation they find on Slashdot. The above post demonstrates the problem. The poster, speaking in an authoritative tone, makes a statement which is completely false. "So, just like the first amendment can't be altered or abolished, the 2nd, 5th, 9th, or 10th can't either." That isn't true. Any part of the Constitution can be altered or repealed, or the whole document can be scrapped by a constitutional convention.
Yeah a ton of money is being pissed away on Star Wars. I have an eccentric theory about that program. They should open it up to a DARPA contest. Sure, they'll get a million non-working entries, but I bet they'd get a couple of decent ones too. The kinds of guidance and tracking systems needed are well within the reach of the well-funded amateur or small company. The kill weapons aren't, but at least you get two legs of the triad. And it's essentially free, even if you make the prize $100 million or any attractive sum.
You seem to be the one with an agenda that can't be switched off. All I did was compare. You drew the value judgement, maybe someone else will draw a different one. I remain neutral.
Reader beware: in the above post "deregulation of the Internet" means Powell allowed the cable companies to censor their Internet service, in opposition to decades of common-carrier policy. In GOP speak, "deregulation" means rich white guys get all the money, and the customer gets a nice dick in the ass.
The thing is, a CRT has six high-voltage, high-speed analog amplifers that control the horizontal and vertical sweep of the beams. These amps have some noise, and this noise is translated into the time domain, the effect of which is to make the dots shake slightly. There is no such equivalent for LCDs, the pixels are mechanically fixed in a grid.
I'll agree on the color etc etc etc but that's where we depart. While that stuff is interesting to an artist or photographer it is of little concern to a writer, programmer, or CAD operator.
The manufacturers don't give enough specifications to evaluate the response time properly. The response times refer to a fully-off to fully-on step transition, which is actually the fastest response a CRT has. A change from 50% gray to 51% gray will be very slow, by comparison, and that's much more important for video. Some LCD displays have circuits that intentionally overdrive the pixel to get faster small-signal response, but it is difficult to find out which manufacturers to this. The best way is to hook up a video source and just watch it.
The "image quality" is only better on CRT if you are talking about video or photography. If you're talking about text or line art, the image quality it far far higher on LCD. Why? Because, as you mention, you can never get the geometry of a CRT quite right, and it never paints the same point of light in quite the same place. An LCD's pixels simply do not move. A CRT's pixels *do* move. You don't notice on videos and photos, but on text you surely do.
Privatising social security, by definition, means the individual is responsible for their own account. Some people will screw up their accounts, or spend the money down at Moe's Tavern. Some people's money will vanish in the stock market. It's a statistical certainty there will be a significant class of people who reach retirement with nothing in their private accounts.
Try responding to my point. Before Social Security, old people froze and starved in the streets. After Social Security, the elderly can at least buy a cup of soup occassionally. Social Security has raised the standard of living for the elderly tremendously, and if you get rid of it by privatizing, you must be willing to say it's OK for those people to just starve, freeze, and die. After all, they should have sold their Enron shares sooner...
Why is it flawed? Social Security has practically eliminated elder poverty. And by poverty, I mean freezing in the streets. If you get rid of Social Security, how are you planning to prevent elder poverty? Think worst-case scenarios wherein everyone loses their savings.
There's still plenty of risk, because the government will still have the responsibility to keep the elderly from starving in the streets. So no matter how well I manage my own account, if some other moron mismanages his, I'm stuck with (a fraction of) the bill. So you see the problem: Bush's risky profiteering plan privatizes the profit (to individuals whose accounts do well, and to Wall Street) but publicizes the risk.
What I mean is, please notice that they often return responses null-padded to 4KB boundaries, which gives some insight regarding how their HTTP server is implemented.
Similar story with T-Mobile. I had service with them, and I added my wife's phone on a "family plan" sort of arrangement. Two numbers, bill goes to me. Three months later I get phone call from bored-sounding collection department people: "If you don't pay up we're going to burn your house down" etc. So I go the filing cabinet, get my bills. All paid on time. $9.99. This seems low. I call T-Mobile.
(CSR, in obvious Indian accent) Hello, my name is... "Edward". How may I provide you with etc etc etc
(Me) Why is the collections department bothering me?
(CSR) Your bill is overdue etc. etc.
But I have all the cancelled checks here for invoice number so and so and so forth, and while I realize $9.99 isn't the right amount, it's not my responsibility to bill myself correctly.
Payment is due on invoice numbers so and so on.
I'm using your incredibly craptastic website and I don't see those bills.
We can send you another copy
OK
A week later I get these bills, $49.99, all overdue. WTF? Turns out they've been billing *me* for the IP service on my mobile number, and billing my wife for everything else. But since my wife is the add-on phone number, the bills are going to/dev/null.
Ever since they outsourced the billing to Nepal, it's been pretty unreliable.
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And since Godfather is, possibly, the worst film-to-dvd transfer of all time, it hardly belongs on anyone's top N list where N is finite.
Supposedly the advantage (according to Speakeasy) is that they can QoS your inbound traffic as well, so both directions of the voice call get priority handling. Whereas with Vonage you can QoS your egress but your ingress is a crap shoot.
Because the 74HCU04 can act as a linear amplifier with high gain, instead of a logic device, a fact which I only recently learned from reading Horowitz and Hill. Before I read that, I always wondered why they used HCU, too!
Well I always think you want to make the best possible recording. After all, you only get to make the recording once, and you have the rest of eternity to improve the playback. As for music, trumpets generate tones up to 100kHz, just as one example. I can't hear to 100kHz but the spectral power is there. Some day, if a race of super-beings-with-really-good-hearing happen to listen to a 192kHz recording, they'll hear what a trumpet really sounds like (to them) rather than a poor imitation limited by human biology.
I think you'd be surprised how hard it is to do digital properly. It isn't for lack of effort, as any number of dedicated amateurs will tell you. It's just that the state of the art really is 24-bits at 192kHz, and implementing something to that standard is very very hard, and expensive. Video conversion is fast, sure, but the sample sizes are small: 8-bit is standard, 10-bit is tough, and 12-bit is a miracle. Humans are also more willing to tolerate noise in video than in audio: a decent video DAC has -80dB noise floor, whereas a decent audio DAC like PCM1794 will have a noise floor at -150dB. That's a difference of more than 1000:1.
Timing is also much more important with audio than with video. People, for whatever reason, are not sensitive to timing jitter in a video signal, but are easily able to hear phase noise in a digital recording. Video uses faster clocks than audio, but their clocks are not as good (and don't need to be).
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So, are you saying you should be allowed to cut off your catalytic converters and drive around polluting?
Lots of windbagging going on here but nobody here has mentioned that Belguim's smart card system is based partly on the Free Software (LGPL) OpenSC tools.
You hit the issue almost perfectly, but you should note the linked PDF isn't just similar to dim-bulb tax protest manifestos, it is in fact a dim-bulb tax protest manifesto. Chech out the main part of that site, which links to other fine documents such as "The Great IRS Hoax", "Income Tax Freedom", and, my favorite, "Social Security: Mark of the Beast."
Well now we know, the high school kids are ignorant because they've been listening to this misinformation they find on Slashdot. The above post demonstrates the problem. The poster, speaking in an authoritative tone, makes a statement which is completely false. "So, just like the first amendment can't be altered or abolished, the 2nd, 5th, 9th, or 10th can't either." That isn't true. Any part of the Constitution can be altered or repealed, or the whole document can be scrapped by a constitutional convention.
Yeah a ton of money is being pissed away on Star Wars. I have an eccentric theory about that program. They should open it up to a DARPA contest. Sure, they'll get a million non-working entries, but I bet they'd get a couple of decent ones too. The kinds of guidance and tracking systems needed are well within the reach of the well-funded amateur or small company. The kill weapons aren't, but at least you get two legs of the triad. And it's essentially free, even if you make the prize $100 million or any attractive sum.
You seem to be the one with an agenda that can't be switched off. All I did was compare. You drew the value judgement, maybe someone else will draw a different one. I remain neutral.
The savings will cover the cost of about 5 days of war in Iraq.
Reader beware: in the above post "deregulation of the Internet" means Powell allowed the cable companies to censor their Internet service, in opposition to decades of common-carrier policy. In GOP speak, "deregulation" means rich white guys get all the money, and the customer gets a nice dick in the ass.
I'll agree on the color etc etc etc but that's where we depart. While that stuff is interesting to an artist or photographer it is of little concern to a writer, programmer, or CAD operator.
The manufacturers don't give enough specifications to evaluate the response time properly. The response times refer to a fully-off to fully-on step transition, which is actually the fastest response a CRT has. A change from 50% gray to 51% gray will be very slow, by comparison, and that's much more important for video. Some LCD displays have circuits that intentionally overdrive the pixel to get faster small-signal response, but it is difficult to find out which manufacturers to this. The best way is to hook up a video source and just watch it.
The "image quality" is only better on CRT if you are talking about video or photography. If you're talking about text or line art, the image quality it far far higher on LCD. Why? Because, as you mention, you can never get the geometry of a CRT quite right, and it never paints the same point of light in quite the same place. An LCD's pixels simply do not move. A CRT's pixels *do* move. You don't notice on videos and photos, but on text you surely do.
Privatising social security, by definition, means the individual is responsible for their own account. Some people will screw up their accounts, or spend the money down at Moe's Tavern. Some people's money will vanish in the stock market. It's a statistical certainty there will be a significant class of people who reach retirement with nothing in their private accounts.
Try responding to my point. Before Social Security, old people froze and starved in the streets. After Social Security, the elderly can at least buy a cup of soup occassionally. Social Security has raised the standard of living for the elderly tremendously, and if you get rid of it by privatizing, you must be willing to say it's OK for those people to just starve, freeze, and die. After all, they should have sold their Enron shares sooner ...
Why is it flawed? Social Security has practically eliminated elder poverty. And by poverty, I mean freezing in the streets. If you get rid of Social Security, how are you planning to prevent elder poverty? Think worst-case scenarios wherein everyone loses their savings.
There's still plenty of risk, because the government will still have the responsibility to keep the elderly from starving in the streets. So no matter how well I manage my own account, if some other moron mismanages his, I'm stuck with (a fraction of) the bill. So you see the problem: Bush's risky profiteering plan privatizes the profit (to individuals whose accounts do well, and to Wall Street) but publicizes the risk.
That's pretty much garaunteed to give you an inconsistent filesystem on hdb, if hda was mounted an in use at the time.
What I mean is, please notice that they often return responses null-padded to 4KB boundaries, which gives some insight regarding how their HTTP server is implemented.
For more fun, check out how ebay's static and images server returs responses null-padded to 4KB boundaries (usually).
(CSR, in obvious Indian accent) Hello, my name is ... "Edward". How may I provide you with etc etc etc
(Me) Why is the collections department bothering me?
(CSR) Your bill is overdue etc. etc.
But I have all the cancelled checks here for invoice number so and so and so forth, and while I realize $9.99 isn't the right amount, it's not my responsibility to bill myself correctly.
Payment is due on invoice numbers so and so on.
I'm using your incredibly craptastic website and I don't see those bills.
We can send you another copy
OK
A week later I get these bills, $49.99, all overdue. WTF? Turns out they've been billing *me* for the IP service on my mobile number, and billing my wife for everything else. But since my wife is the add-on phone number, the bills are going to /dev/null.
Ever since they outsourced the billing to Nepal, it's been pretty unreliable.
And since Godfather is, possibly, the worst film-to-dvd transfer of all time, it hardly belongs on anyone's top N list where N is finite.
Supposedly the advantage (according to Speakeasy) is that they can QoS your inbound traffic as well, so both directions of the voice call get priority handling. Whereas with Vonage you can QoS your egress but your ingress is a crap shoot.
Because the 74HCU04 can act as a linear amplifier with high gain, instead of a logic device, a fact which I only recently learned from reading Horowitz and Hill. Before I read that, I always wondered why they used HCU, too!
Well I always think you want to make the best possible recording. After all, you only get to make the recording once, and you have the rest of eternity to improve the playback. As for music, trumpets generate tones up to 100kHz, just as one example. I can't hear to 100kHz but the spectral power is there. Some day, if a race of super-beings-with-really-good-hearing happen to listen to a 192kHz recording, they'll hear what a trumpet really sounds like (to them) rather than a poor imitation limited by human biology.
I build all my own audio gear, genius. And you? How's the My First Sony sounding?
Timing is also much more important with audio than with video. People, for whatever reason, are not sensitive to timing jitter in a video signal, but are easily able to hear phase noise in a digital recording. Video uses faster clocks than audio, but their clocks are not as good (and don't need to be).