I hate Flash based web pages, as it is low on content and high on irritability, and un-googlable. That's why many good websites use flash sparingly, only for specific features that'll benefit from it. I'm not surprised MS is following in everyone else's footsteps.
It's very likely that few documents exist in such old formats at this point.
Really? How about the US government? NASA anyone?
Why should anyone stop supporting old document formats? Are the files created a long ago no longer important? How about 100 year old books? Should we burn them all?
We should stop this file format insanity now, and adopt some open format. Like ODF. Good riddance.
5mW was chosen because it was just weak enough for the blink reflex to save your eyes. With a 200mW green laser, even at 500 to 1000 ft, your blink reflex is not fast enough to prevent retina damage. In fact, you only have to see it for less than a 10th of a second to blind you, at least temporarily (minutes) if not permanently. Few minutes of blindess for the pilot, *and* the co-pilot (remember, police copters have glass bottoms, and laser disperses to about 3 feet at this distance), puts a lot of people in danger. If the couple was actually using those ebay high-power lasers to point at helicopters, they should serve jail time.
You also forget that our eyes are more sensitive to green light. It's easier to blind people with green light than with red light.
Except this is a helicopter designed to monitor ground traffic, which means big glass windows on the bottom . Kinda different from shining under the car.
Most professional recording equipment now days records and mixes at 24bits, with final CD master downsampled to 16 bits. When used with proper dithering, the delivered 16bit, 44.1KHz CD will sound just as good as the master recording just before downsampling. You *do* know about dithering, right?
You missed the part where the parent said "home playback". There are *many* reasons to use 24bits in studio recording, with all the intermixing and volume adjustments introducing aliasing artifacts. But when you are done, you can down sample to 16-bits and with proper dithering, it'll sound just as good.
Really? Let's say you have *one* rack full of drives, let's say holding 244 drives at 168 TB. Now, as 10% of the drives fail, would users notice the 10% drop in capacity? Really? Do you run your disk array at 90% capacity without expanding?
The fact is, even small clusters run at 50%-80% capacity, and if a whole datacenter is running at 80% capacity, they'll have to expand pretty soon. With these datacenter-in-a-box, Snap, and its done.
Google isn't doing that just because they have lots of money. No, it's actually cheaper to run things that way. And now with VM's running on clusters, the health of individual machines really doesn't matter anymore.
So, when do you think a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Datacenters will become a reality? Psst. It'll be sooner than you think.
One Word: Dither. In the early days of CD mastering, when they were putting out both CD and vinyl versions, the assumption was that "oh, since it's recorded digitally, it's perfect." The reality is that after mixing and equilization, there are artifacts (like aliasing) introduced that *reduced* sound quality of the resulting CD. But now a days, all the recordings are done on 96kbit/sec, 24-bit masters, mixed in that format, and down sampled to CD rate with proper dither. Some times its marketed as "super bit mapping" or some such. Vinyl can't touch this sound.
This is modded funny, but it's also very true. The smartest 0.1% of Americans feel they should be rewarded well for being that smart. The smartest 0.1% of China or India feels the same. But the salary demand for the 0.1% of Americans pale in comparison to foreign workers.
Why should the smartest 0.1% go into science, when it is no un-rewarding?
MS isn't stupid. If linux begins to seriously cannibalizing their market, they will simply reduce Windows OS price to 50-100USD, with even bigger academic discounts. That would cut into their profits, but it'll keep people happy and maintain their OS dominance.
The fundamental problem here is that OpenOffice just isn't as good as MS Office.
I have mod points, but I'll bite and reply instead. No, the fundamental problem is not that OO.o isn't as good or not as MSO. The problem is it's always difficult to replace entrenched software, especially when the replacement can't handle old documents. Not only that, many businesses use MSO beyond just word processing and spreadsheets. With Visual Basic, many businesses use Excel as analysis and computational tool that is irreplaceable. They know they've made themselves dependent on MS, but now no longer have the choice to switch because so much of their revenue is dependent on it.
Hopefully IBM's developers understand this, and make MSO compatibility one of their priorities. A drop in replacement for visual basic and Excel, better.doc,.xl support, and a more polished presentation program.
Wow, such display of sheer brilliance! I wish I had your educational background and superior intellect. I mean, I could have said "Whenever someone cries 'the market will take care of itself', the answer is probably NO", and it would have proved that capitalism is a failure. Uh-huh. Right.
What's interesting to me is where the peak for sexual activity lies. It's is exactly IQ 100 for girls, and IQ 90 for boys. Guess what, that's the average.
Populations wouldn't get smarter or dumber, just remain average. In the pure Darwinian sense, the population average is the optimum number, for whatever reason, and this study just confirms it.
Although it's interesting that girls would pick boys dumber than they are to have sex (the male data is highly dependent on how the girls pick them).
Its rumored that the Reagan admin relied on astrology, tarot cards, etc in determining policy.
At least that would be random. Random decisions is a lot better than actively trying to dismantle the social-economic-political structure of the United States for profit
It's not a good system, but everything else is worse.
That was the most succinct way to express this whole thing. Health care is extremely inelastic, and normal cost-benefit analysis goes out the window. Capitalism and profit motive is great for the economy (generation of wealth), but it simply doesn't work for Healthcare. Bravo!
Have you ever played a 9x9 go? It's like playing chess with 3 queens and a king each. It's an extremely simplified version which students out grow in about a month.
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I hate Flash based web pages, as it is low on content and high on irritability, and un-googlable. That's why many good websites use flash sparingly, only for specific features that'll benefit from it. I'm not surprised MS is following in everyone else's footsteps.
It's very likely that few documents exist in such old formats at this point.
Really? How about the US government? NASA anyone?
Why should anyone stop supporting old document formats? Are the files created a long ago no longer important? How about 100 year old books? Should we burn them all?
We should stop this file format insanity now, and adopt some open format. Like ODF. Good riddance.
5mW was chosen because it was just weak enough for the blink reflex to save your eyes. With a 200mW green laser, even at 500 to 1000 ft, your blink reflex is not fast enough to prevent retina damage. In fact, you only have to see it for less than a 10th of a second to blind you, at least temporarily (minutes) if not permanently. Few minutes of blindess for the pilot, *and* the co-pilot (remember, police copters have glass bottoms, and laser disperses to about 3 feet at this distance), puts a lot of people in danger. If the couple was actually using those ebay high-power lasers to point at helicopters, they should serve jail time.
You also forget that our eyes are more sensitive to green light. It's easier to blind people with green light than with red light.
And pointed at the underside of your car.
Except this is a helicopter designed to monitor ground traffic, which means big glass windows on the bottom . Kinda different from shining under the car.
Most professional recording equipment now days records and mixes at 24bits, with final CD master downsampled to 16 bits. When used with proper dithering, the delivered 16bit, 44.1KHz CD will sound just as good as the master recording just before downsampling. You *do* know about dithering, right?
You missed the part where the parent said "home playback". There are *many* reasons to use 24bits in studio recording, with all the intermixing and volume adjustments introducing aliasing artifacts. But when you are done, you can down sample to 16-bits and with proper dithering, it'll sound just as good.
Really? Let's say you have *one* rack full of drives, let's say holding 244 drives at 168 TB. Now, as 10% of the drives fail, would users notice the 10% drop in capacity? Really? Do you run your disk array at 90% capacity without expanding?
The fact is, even small clusters run at 50%-80% capacity, and if a whole datacenter is running at 80% capacity, they'll have to expand pretty soon. With these datacenter-in-a-box, Snap, and its done.
Google isn't doing that just because they have lots of money. No, it's actually cheaper to run things that way. And now with VM's running on clusters, the health of individual machines really doesn't matter anymore.
So, when do you think a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Datacenters will become a reality? Psst. It'll be sooner than you think.
One Word: Dither.
In the early days of CD mastering, when they were putting out both CD and vinyl versions, the assumption was that "oh, since it's recorded digitally, it's perfect." The reality is that after mixing and equilization, there are artifacts (like aliasing) introduced that *reduced* sound quality of the resulting CD. But now a days, all the recordings are done on 96kbit/sec, 24-bit masters, mixed in that format, and down sampled to CD rate with proper dither. Some times its marketed as "super bit mapping" or some such. Vinyl can't touch this sound.
This is modded funny, but it's also very true. The smartest 0.1% of Americans feel they should be rewarded well for being that smart. The smartest 0.1% of China or India feels the same. But the salary demand for the 0.1% of Americans pale in comparison to foreign workers.
Why should the smartest 0.1% go into science, when it is no un-rewarding?
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
After reading your comment, and then your sig, then your comment again,
Where were you when Windows replaced DOS?
I can has cannibilize U in So-viet Unyonz.
MS isn't stupid. If linux begins to seriously cannibalizing their market, they will simply reduce Windows OS price to 50-100USD, with even bigger academic discounts. That would cut into their profits, but it'll keep people happy and maintain their OS dominance.
If 128kbps ISDN connection is good enough for you, why not just by four phone lines and channel bond?
The fundamental problem here is that OpenOffice just isn't as good as MS Office.
.doc, .xl support, and a more polished presentation program.
I have mod points, but I'll bite and reply instead. No, the fundamental problem is not that OO.o isn't as good or not as MSO. The problem is it's always difficult to replace entrenched software, especially when the replacement can't handle old documents. Not only that, many businesses use MSO beyond just word processing and spreadsheets. With Visual Basic, many businesses use Excel as analysis and computational tool that is irreplaceable. They know they've made themselves dependent on MS, but now no longer have the choice to switch because so much of their revenue is dependent on it.
Hopefully IBM's developers understand this, and make MSO compatibility one of their priorities. A drop in replacement for visual basic and Excel, better
There is a web browser inside the web browser!
Actually, some bill criminalizing hentai would do a better job.
I bet it's a marketing ploy by Wrigley's for a new line of chewing gums.
Wow, such display of sheer brilliance! I wish I had your educational background and superior intellect. I mean, I could have said "Whenever someone cries 'the market will take care of itself', the answer is probably NO", and it would have proved that capitalism is a failure. Uh-huh. Right.
What's interesting to me is where the peak for sexual activity lies. It's is exactly IQ 100 for girls, and IQ 90 for boys. Guess what, that's the average.
Populations wouldn't get smarter or dumber, just remain average. In the pure Darwinian sense, the population average is the optimum number, for whatever reason, and this study just confirms it.
Although it's interesting that girls would pick boys dumber than they are to have sex (the male data is highly dependent on how the girls pick them).
God Damn it, I sound like a college professor.
Its rumored that the Reagan admin relied on astrology, tarot cards, etc in determining policy.
At least that would be random. Random decisions is a lot better than actively trying to dismantle the social-economic-political structure of the United States for profit
It's not a good system, but everything else is worse.
That was the most succinct way to express this whole thing. Health care is extremely inelastic, and normal cost-benefit analysis goes out the window. Capitalism and profit motive is great for the economy (generation of wealth), but it simply doesn't work for Healthcare. Bravo!
I respect expert opinion, but as an engineer I value testing over hearsay.
Have you ever played a 9x9 go? It's like playing chess with 3 queens and a king each. It's an extremely simplified version which students out grow in about a month.
Computers beat people at chess and go
Not go.