I have a large-screen 1080-capable projection TV, but it does not have HDMI inputs. I wish that I had better quality, but with only analog inputs, Blu-Ray movies may limit the quality that I can view so that it is little better than DVD.
If Blu-Ray could actually guarantee me better picture quality, I would buy it. But, instead, their idiotic copy-protection schemes are having the opposite effect. Maybe when my current television dies and I am forced to upgrade to something with HDMI, or maybe when Blu-ray players drop to $50, I might pick one up. Until then, there is no compelling reason to do so.
If you're *really* out to test performance (and need that performance) you *will* optimize on a clock count basis and to know that, you have to know the implementation specifics of *the* processor you're on.
Because, as we all know, real applications do this. Winzip has different code paths for different processors, as well as Office, and Photoshop, right?
In real life, you do things in the fastest GENERIC way possible. If SSE should make it faster, check for the existence of SSE, and then use it. If SSE not present, fall back to MMX. That is what REAL applications do in REAL life. What good does a theoretical bandwidth do if no software actually uses it?
The spectrum belongs to the public and there is no longer a need for it to be allocated by government the way 100 year old radios required. Free spectrum would bring you vastly cheaper communications and true always on internet.
Riiiight. Maybe we should do the same thing for real property. Why "own" land like they did 100 years ago. Just have communal property. If you see a house that you like, just move in. Is your neighbor's TV larger than yours? Take it.
I, for one, am happy that the local police, fire department, and ambulance services have their own slice of spectrum. I would hate for people to die because little Billy decided to run his own radio station.
Or, you can have two TV stations in a "broadcast war." ABC decides to broadcast on channel 7. NBC decides that they have a larger transmitter, so they tune to channel 7 and crank up the wattage, knocking ABC off. ABC then decides to upgrade the transmitter to twice the power that NBC has, and knocks them off the air.
Radio spectrum is a limited resource. There is only so much of it, and everybody has to share. It needs to be managed, just as you manage other things that are limited (time, money, space, etc.).
No, long-term we need fairy juice. First, you catch a few life fairies, and squeeze to obtain the magic juice that will power your car for a thousand years.
We also need world peace, and to go back in time and make Star Wars episode 1 that doesn't suck.
Seriously though, no matter how badly we need something does not mean that we get it, or that it is even possible. Fusion may never happen, and if it does, may not happen in or lifetime. It would be nice, but you don't bet your future on somebody figuring it out one day.
The scroll lock is VERY useful to people who use a KVM switch. And that key still performs its designated function in Excel. Doesn't appear to do much in Open Office spreadsheet under Linux, though.
Well, if you were going to be shot, would you prefer.223, or 30-06? Simply stated, the 30-06 is a LOT more powerful. In many states, it is illegal to hunt deer with a.223, simply because it is not effective enough.
OK, maybe it was not DESIGNED to wound, but that is just a side-effect. Also, on a traditional battlefield, a dead soldier means one less person attacking you. A wounded one requrires medics, ambulance drivers, doctors, hospitals, etc., all of which take people and resources. If you can remove an enemy from the combat without killing them, you have an advantage. This works well in traditional wars, but not so much for places like Iraq.
Seriously, though. People who are for an assault weapons ban should look at the first link. It is "California legal." The only change that makes a real difference in the effectiveness of the gun is limiting it to a 10-round magazine. Everything else is window dressing, showing how silly such a ban is. The 10-round magazine limit just means the the bad guys have to take 3 seconds to change magazine, if they intend mischief, so even that does not accomplish much.
I'm pretty sure that the ruling does not protect your right to own assault rifles, hand grenades, military class vehicles, or rocket launchers.
Can you define an "assault rifle?"
This is one of my pet peeves. What is the difference between a hunting rifle and an assault rifle?
Hunting rifles are brown, assault rifles are black. If I am shot, the color of the gun would be the last thing on my mind.
Assault rifles have an upper gas tube. Once again, if I am shot, I would not care.
Assault rifles may have a place to put a bayonett. If I have a gun pointed at me, I would probably not notice a knife on the end.
Assault rifles have a pistol grip. Yup, that would make anybody shot with a hunting rifle feel better that at least there was no pistol grip.
Also, just for the record, let's look at the most popular "assault rifle" out there -- the AR-15. It shoots a.223 cartridge. If I was told that I was going to be shot by a center-fire rifle, and I could choose the cartridge, the.223 would be near the top of the list. The AR-15 was designed mostly to injure (not kill) the enemy. Also, with smaller bullets, you can carry more ammo. The humble 30-06 cartridge (extremely popular for hunting) does a LOT more damage.
The Washington Sniper used a.223 AR-15, and some people lived. If "assault weapons" were illegal, and he chose to use a bolt-action 30-06, there would not have been any survivors.
Basicly, some people want to ban "assault rifles" because they look scary. If we painted them day-glow orange and had pictures of kittens and unicorns on them, they would be OK.
Like there are any. We have two presidential candidates right now. One hates the 2nd amendment, and the other hates the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments. When (if) I vote in November, it will be like being asked if I would rather be kicked in the head or the groin. No matter what you choose, it will be bad. I certainly can't run for office myself. I am a/.er, so I doubt I have the social skills to run for any type of elected office:P
No matter what happens, I dread the next four years.
True, but managing your own queue takes time. Right now, I have my queue, my wife has hers, and we have a shared queue for things that we like to watch together. Not having separate queues will take a bit of juggling. I get one DVD at a time, and it may take me a week or two to watch it. My wife goes through three a week. It will be a pain to keep everything balanced.
The separate queues is, to me, their chief advantage over Blockbuster. I don't really watch Netflix downloadable movies (and hate being forced into using Windows and IE even if I did), so that is no advantage there. Once the queues go away, I will re-examine which service I want to use. If Blockbuster wins on price, they will get my money instead. If Blockbuster takes advantage of this opporrunity and adds separate queues to their service, they score a slam-dunk and I will switch without a second thought or a bit of regret (I hope somebody from Blockbuster reads this). Being able to exchange one or two movies a month in the store is also very convenient, and a big plus in the Blockbuster column.
1) Make customers angry and shoot self in foot. 2) ??? 3) Profit.
Sometimes you can get an intermittent contact that will test fine sometimes (like when thh board is horizontal) but will fail when the board is tipped or shaken. Ask me to tell you the story of a MIL-STD-1553 transformer one time. All of the usual testing techniques (JTAG, bed-of-nails) can miss these. I am not sure how X-ray would handle this though (not much experience with manufacturing beyond the prototype stage).
So if atheism is a choice, then isn't religion (theism) in general a choice as well?
What you believe is absolutely a choise. However, at most one belief system is true. One of the chief purposes in life is to try to detrmine which one is correct.
PS: Isn't your Christian porn and sex toys site (as cited in your sig) in bad and immoral taste? Studies show at least 50% of born-again Christians (in the US) have porn and sex addictions. Should you really be trying to make that worse?
Have you looked at it? No nudity anywhere on the web site or packaging. The point is to allow married couples to buy toys without any sort of nudity. The entire purpose is to increase the relationship between husbands and wives. Please explain how we are making anything worse.
Don't like it, don't shop there. Diversity if one of the great things about America, and the freedom to believe what you want, and to disagree.
If we disagree about religion, I may believe that you are wrong (and may even try to convince you that I am right), but I will not call you names, or interfere your right to believe what you want. All I ask is the same kindness in return.
Wow. They are asking for help, not forcing you. If you don't want to help, then don't. No big deal. If somebody wants to, they will.
People who preach tolerance are pretty intolerant to those they don't agree with. News at 11.
Yes, they are exlcusionary. But, they are exclusionary on things based on choice (not things you can't change, like race). Just like a chess club might not want members who hate to play chess. Get over it.
Well, it does take a rechargable battery pack. Inside the sealed pack are AA nicads.
I just disassembled the battery pack, and put brand-new AA NiMH batteries in there. Now, it gets a LOT longer life than it used to. The NiMH still self-discharges, though. I should have waited another year for Eneloop batteries to be invented.
Unallocated space wouldn't be filled with high-entropy random bytes. That's a tip-off that it has encrypted data. Of course, you certainly have deniable plausibility there.
Actually, any TrueCrypt volume **IS** filled with random data in the empty spaces, which is why you can put an encrypted volume on an encrypted volume, and nobody can prove that you did.
Another option might be to take a spare 512MB memory module and accidentally apply 120V to a couple of random pins, thereby frying the module. If you insert that, your computer won't boot. Leave your good RAM at home, travel with the dummy RAM. "Gee, officer. My computer is dead. A friend of mine at the destination knows how to fix them." Buy new RAM at your destination. Sell the RAM to a friend or pawn shop before you leave, and put your original RAM back in when you get back home.
Balmer's play may backfire. Read the Groklaw post. It is about trying to outsmart Linux by making sure that "open sores" runs wonderfully on Windows, so nobody needs Linux.
The problem is that, once people start using OO, Firefox, etc., they will eventually realize that they can run that exact same software on a free OS.
The shock of changing the OS and the office suite is a lot. However, if you can transition one little piece at a time, Windows is in trouble.
Keep one thing in mind. The music is NOT being turned off. The people who purchased the music can still listen to it forever, and it can be handed down to their children as an inheritance.
Granted, they have to keep the original computer around for decades, and can't update the operating system. They had also better hope that the hard drive doesn't die. But, technically, Microsoft is not turning any music off.
Sucks, but sounds like a great loophole for Microsoft to use in court to me.
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I have a large-screen 1080-capable projection TV, but it does not have HDMI inputs. I wish that I had better quality, but with only analog inputs, Blu-Ray movies may limit the quality that I can view so that it is little better than DVD.
If Blu-Ray could actually guarantee me better picture quality, I would buy it. But, instead, their idiotic copy-protection schemes are having the opposite effect. Maybe when my current television dies and I am forced to upgrade to something with HDMI, or maybe when Blu-ray players drop to $50, I might pick one up. Until then, there is no compelling reason to do so.
Because, as we all know, real applications do this. Winzip has different code paths for different processors, as well as Office, and Photoshop, right?
In real life, you do things in the fastest GENERIC way possible. If SSE should make it faster, check for the existence of SSE, and then use it. If SSE not present, fall back to MMX. That is what REAL applications do in REAL life. What good does a theoretical bandwidth do if no software actually uses it?
You have a point, *IF* encryption is turned on. However, if encryption is turned off, the this sort of thing should just work.
Riiiight. Maybe we should do the same thing for real property. Why "own" land like they did 100 years ago. Just have communal property. If you see a house that you like, just move in. Is your neighbor's TV larger than yours? Take it.
I, for one, am happy that the local police, fire department, and ambulance services have their own slice of spectrum. I would hate for people to die because little Billy decided to run his own radio station.
Or, you can have two TV stations in a "broadcast war." ABC decides to broadcast on channel 7. NBC decides that they have a larger transmitter, so they tune to channel 7 and crank up the wattage, knocking ABC off. ABC then decides to upgrade the transmitter to twice the power that NBC has, and knocks them off the air.
Radio spectrum is a limited resource. There is only so much of it, and everybody has to share. It needs to be managed, just as you manage other things that are limited (time, money, space, etc.).
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No, long-term we need fairy juice. First, you catch a few life fairies, and squeeze to obtain the magic juice that will power your car for a thousand years.
We also need world peace, and to go back in time and make Star Wars episode 1 that doesn't suck.
Seriously though, no matter how badly we need something does not mean that we get it, or that it is even possible. Fusion may never happen, and if it does, may not happen in or lifetime. It would be nice, but you don't bet your future on somebody figuring it out one day.
The scroll lock is VERY useful to people who use a KVM switch. And that key still performs its designated function in Excel. Doesn't appear to do much in Open Office spreadsheet under Linux, though.
Well, if you were going to be shot, would you prefer .223, or 30-06? Simply stated, the 30-06 is a LOT more powerful. In many states, it is illegal to hunt deer with a .223, simply because it is not effective enough.
OK, maybe it was not DESIGNED to wound, but that is just a side-effect. Also, on a traditional battlefield, a dead soldier means one less person attacking you. A wounded one requrires medics, ambulance drivers, doctors, hospitals, etc., all of which take people and resources. If you can remove an enemy from the combat without killing them, you have an advantage. This works well in traditional wars, but not so much for places like Iraq.
Gaaaa. My eyes! I'm blind!
Seriously, though. People who are for an assault weapons ban should look at the first link. It is "California legal." The only change that makes a real difference in the effectiveness of the gun is limiting it to a 10-round magazine. Everything else is window dressing, showing how silly such a ban is. The 10-round magazine limit just means the the bad guys have to take 3 seconds to change magazine, if they intend mischief, so even that does not accomplish much.
You shoot the television. You don't have it, but at least the nutcase won't be able to use/sell it.
Riiight. Just wear a red shirt and let me know how that works out.
This is one of my pet peeves. What is the difference between a hunting rifle and an assault rifle?
Hunting rifles are brown, assault rifles are black. If I am shot, the color of the gun would be the last thing on my mind.
Assault rifles have an upper gas tube. Once again, if I am shot, I would not care.
Assault rifles may have a place to put a bayonett. If I have a gun pointed at me, I would probably not notice a knife on the end.
Assault rifles have a pistol grip. Yup, that would make anybody shot with a hunting rifle feel better that at least there was no pistol grip.
Also, just for the record, let's look at the most popular "assault rifle" out there -- the AR-15. It shoots a .223 cartridge. If I was told that I was going to be shot by a center-fire rifle, and I could choose the cartridge, the .223 would be near the top of the list. The AR-15 was designed mostly to injure (not kill) the enemy. Also, with smaller bullets, you can carry more ammo. The humble 30-06 cartridge (extremely popular for hunting) does a LOT more damage.
The Washington Sniper used a .223 AR-15, and some people lived. If "assault weapons" were illegal, and he chose to use a bolt-action 30-06, there would not have been any survivors.
Basicly, some people want to ban "assault rifles" because they look scary. If we painted them day-glow orange and had pictures of kittens and unicorns on them, they would be OK.
No matter what happens, I dread the next four years.
True, but managing your own queue takes time. Right now, I have my queue, my wife has hers, and we have a shared queue for things that we like to watch together. Not having separate queues will take a bit of juggling. I get one DVD at a time, and it may take me a week or two to watch it. My wife goes through three a week. It will be a pain to keep everything balanced.
The separate queues is, to me, their chief advantage over Blockbuster. I don't really watch Netflix downloadable movies (and hate being forced into using Windows and IE even if I did), so that is no advantage there. Once the queues go away, I will re-examine which service I want to use. If Blockbuster wins on price, they will get my money instead. If Blockbuster takes advantage of this opporrunity and adds separate queues to their service, they score a slam-dunk and I will switch without a second thought or a bit of regret (I hope somebody from Blockbuster reads this). Being able to exchange one or two movies a month in the store is also very convenient, and a big plus in the Blockbuster column.
1) Make customers angry and shoot self in foot.
2) ???
3) Profit.
Sometimes you can get an intermittent contact that will test fine sometimes (like when thh board is horizontal) but will fail when the board is tipped or shaken. Ask me to tell you the story of a MIL-STD-1553 transformer one time. All of the usual testing techniques (JTAG, bed-of-nails) can miss these. I am not sure how X-ray would handle this though (not much experience with manufacturing beyond the prototype stage).
Don't like it, don't shop there. Diversity if one of the great things about America, and the freedom to believe what you want, and to disagree.
If we disagree about religion, I may believe that you are wrong (and may even try to convince you that I am right), but I will not call you names, or interfere your right to believe what you want. All I ask is the same kindness in return.
Wow. They are asking for help, not forcing you. If you don't want to help, then don't. No big deal. If somebody wants to, they will.
People who preach tolerance are pretty intolerant to those they don't agree with. News at 11.
Yes, they are exlcusionary. But, they are exclusionary on things based on choice (not things you can't change, like race). Just like a chess club might not want members who hate to play chess. Get over it.
Well, it does take a rechargable battery pack. Inside the sealed pack are AA nicads.
I just disassembled the battery pack, and put brand-new AA NiMH batteries in there. Now, it gets a LOT longer life than it used to. The NiMH still self-discharges, though. I should have waited another year for Eneloop batteries to be invented.
Claim ignorance, and make THEM do it. I doubt they would even know which panel to open. If they break it, sue them.
Actually, any TrueCrypt volume **IS** filled with random data in the empty spaces, which is why you can put an encrypted volume on an encrypted volume, and nobody can prove that you did.
Another option might be to take a spare 512MB memory module and accidentally apply 120V to a couple of random pins, thereby frying the module. If you insert that, your computer won't boot. Leave your good RAM at home, travel with the dummy RAM. "Gee, officer. My computer is dead. A friend of mine at the destination knows how to fix them." Buy new RAM at your destination. Sell the RAM to a friend or pawn shop before you leave, and put your original RAM back in when you get back home.
Balmer's play may backfire. Read the Groklaw post. It is about trying to outsmart Linux by making sure that "open sores" runs wonderfully on Windows, so nobody needs Linux.
The problem is that, once people start using OO, Firefox, etc., they will eventually realize that they can run that exact same software on a free OS.
The shock of changing the OS and the office suite is a lot. However, if you can transition one little piece at a time, Windows is in trouble.
If his name is pronounced like I think it is, that sounds like a better name for a mobster than a BSD guy.
Keep one thing in mind. The music is NOT being turned off. The people who purchased the music can still listen to it forever, and it can be handed down to their children as an inheritance.
Granted, they have to keep the original computer around for decades, and can't update the operating system. They had also better hope that the hard drive doesn't die. But, technically, Microsoft is not turning any music off.
Sucks, but sounds like a great loophole for Microsoft to use in court to me.