Personally, I'm waiting for an updated Mac Pro. God knows the current one is still a heck of a deal (assuming you upgrade it yourself); I've been searching for a similar Windows machine (8 cores & 2.8Ghz or better) but come up blank, even building my own. But I figure the next generation of Mac Pro's will be 12 core monsters w/ BluRay drives' etc.
I want to get into HD Video, Play w/ Virtualization, run multiple OS's, etc. so yes, I need something that powerful. Here's a hint, if its not only 4 cores, its not as powerful. Don't care if you've overclocked and peltier cooled that single CPU to 5 Ghz.
Anyway, that's my dream. I'm starting to save now:)
"Software circumvention of protection can be allowed for personal use in the event that no more then one copy is made and the new copy adds a new and at least equivalent layer of protection. This added protection must not be obsolete and must allow for an identical and identifiable copy."
Why limit it to 1 copy? This just forces another layer of DRM to manage that one copy.
1) Circumvention is allowed for transfer to player devices (ipod, home media system, etc.) by individuals
This would also cover other home media devices and library systems as well, even Linux and open source media players. Exempt the intent (to play).
2) Circumvention is allowed for creating personal use duplicates for the purpose of use in high risk environments such as automobiles and children's use for personal use.
This permits the making of backup media for a purpose just about every person familiar with kids can get behind.
Of course, once you legitimize these uses, the cats out of the bag. But think of the useful products that can be developed...
1) Moden Jet engines burn Kerosene, not 120 Octane gasoline (used in some piston aircraft, though I don't think the octane ratings are equivalent w/ pump gas) If I recall, it has a more dangerous vapor point than gasoline or diesel; while gasoline vapors will create too rich a mixture to burn in a closed environment like a tank, and diesel too lean, Kerosene is just right. So you last comment is both wrong and right.
2) Per the video and article, teh fire in Building 7 was started by falling debris for teh main buildings, not by the airplanes.
There's not much left aside from IT and help-desk jobs.
And what is wrong w/ IT and Hemp Desk type jobs? Ok, personally, I avoid Help desk work, but I consciously chose IT over programming because I didn't want to work in a cube interacting w/ a computer all day any more than I wanted to be an actuary working in a cube interacting w/ a computer all day (Double major, Math & Comp Sci). And since he's already held jobs in tech support, it should be easy to get hired.
Of course, I leverage my programming skills a LOT writing scripts, etc. and could probably out program a lot of the developers I work with, but thats not a strict job requirement. Figure out what you are good at, and what you enjoy doing, then go after that job. Nothing wrong w/ a CS major selling insurance.
"0%" is not dead. In fact, spurious negative results are commonly reported with several methods, because of a failure of the underlying assumptions about the density of adipose tissue.
0% actual is dead. Fat plays critical roles in the body, if you didn't have any, you would die. I agree a 0% or even negative measured body fat is possible, but that's not my claim. Since I wasn't even close, I used the average of several methods to calculate what 0% would be (at 5'11, max was 190lbs, my 0% calculated to 200lbs), figuring the errors would round off, but I accept thats not the most accurate result. Most accurate test I ever had was a multi-site skinfold test, which gave surprisingly similar results (given the 4% variablility I would regularly see given hydration variances). But considering those numbers are supposed to represent a 5-20% body fat range, (15% is generally considered fit), the fact that I need to reach 0% to hit the upper range shows the failing of the method.
I ran cross country, and I assure you that while those numbers are low, they are far from atypical. You run 15-25 miles a day for months at a time, and there isn't much fat left, regardless of how much you eat.
Doesn't matter, a typical cross country runner will still have 6-9% body fat. I suspect the measurement technique you were using was pushing the bounds of what it was capable of. With a 3% margin of error (your are at the outer limit of what it has been calibrated for, your getting 6%-8%). A body builder can get to 2-3% because he has so much other mass (cross country runner weighs 130 lbs, a weight lifter is 250 lbs) and uses "tricks" to fool their body temporarily. Note this Arnold page lists a off-season weight of 260 & a competition weight of 235 (an 11% swing!).
Unless those tests were conducted using a water displacement test, I would tend to believe testing error accounts for the discrepancy.
And there's the problem. You're assuming that there's some inherent truth to a claim that people shouldn't be running around naked in public -- when there's pretty substantial evidence from cultures going back to pre-history that there's not a bit of problem with it at all. Seeing as most Americans descend from Europeans, there is a prehistoric problem with it, namely idiot cro-magnons that did so died of exposure during the winter. So along with a genetic ability to handle our alcohol, fight livestock derived diseases, and digest animal milk, we also inherited an understanding that running around naked isn't a good plan. Don't find many eskimos procreating in the great out doors, do you?
If you're 6 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds you can be a chubby guy or a really fit guy or somewhere in between, but regardless the government classifies you as "overweight". You need to set a standard for health that doesn't deal with weird metrics like "waist size" or "body mass index". When I hit the gym more vigorously, I had several body Fat tests run using a variety of methods, All were in rough agreement, that at 0% body fat (ie dead, 15% is normal, with marathon runners typically in the 7-9% range) I was still "overweight" by those insurance company charts, even rounding my height up. As I recall, the military has also run into similar problems, with body builders hitting the "obese" mark despite body fat ranges in the 5% area
Problem is body fat measures aren't accurate enough to draw a line with (25% body fat pays more) when they can vary by 3-6% pretty easily.
While probably a troll, this is just a stupid statement. In one on one fighting, the number of factors that affect the outcome are pretty large. Speed, environment, weapons, willingness to attack (most guys specifically avoid specific vulnerable targets in a testosterone based version of MAD). But a moderately athletic woman trained in a fighting skill would kick the average untrained man's ass; the same way a professional racer in a Taurus can out-lap the untrained in a sports car.
Do you think that destroying a few paper ballots... wouldn't happen?
Destroy the paper ballots, the electronic records still exist. With a paper audit trail you now have to attack both systems, and do so so that your corrupted results match, else a flag is generated and an investigation starts. If nobody knows the results are bad, there's no investiagtion, and no need to cover your tracks (which gets harder the more complicated the system becomes.
No security system will ever be perfect, thats no reason to through up your hands and leave all your doors unlocked.
What does a paper trail do on its own? Couldn't the software falsify the paper trail?
The voter should have an opportunity to verify the paper trail. He is the only one who can confirm the paper trail recorded his vote correctly. A shutter system could easily reveal only the voters's record to him. A comparison of the sign in rolls reveals that no "extra" votes were added.
Your argument contains one common fallacy. Corporate executives aren't even remotely normal. The executives aren't being sued, the company is. This sort of "Take-down" company is treading on thin ice legally, one such misfire as this and they can lose the company.
Trick is, they are well aware and have likely structured the company to allow a simple simple collapse w/ minimal loss, after which MediaProtector will be reborn from the ashes, a completely different company w/ the exact same staff and an identical client list.
Best bet is to go after the company that hired them; prove they paid this company to break the law for them. The RIAA/MPAA will have a harder time collapsing and reforming...
I wonder how he defines a business and how many of those businesses are exercising their "downgrade rights".
That doesn't matter. They are buying licenses to run Vista, not licenses to run XP. Its still a Vista "sale". With the availability of downgrade rights, its foolish to buy XP Pro in place of Vista Business. Generally we're re-imaging the PC new from the factory anyway, and maybe they will eventually fix Vista (we all hated XP over 2000 when it came out)
Its not likely he'll quote "running Vista" numbers, there's a huge installed based and Vista doesn't like older hardware. My new Vista work PC blue screens reliably when I RDC to it because my new video card (to support dual displays) lacks Vista drivers. So I'll be roll out of Vista myself soon.
From what I understand (a friend of mine has fios) all the channels on fios are unencrypted, other than the premium channels and pay per view.
Interesting. What kind of tuner then is decoding the FIOS? What card is he using in the MythTV box? I've been toying with ideas to centralize the DVR feeds, if I could bypass that and record straight to a MythTV box, it would be even more powerful.
Idea being any TV could tune into HD feed 1, feed 2, feed 3, etc, by just changing channels, Feed 1 & Feed 2 could each have their own DVR like interface to a common pool of recorded shows, while Feed 3+ could be security cam feeds from fron door, etc.
Nice feature of that setup is we can monitor what the kids are watching remotely, by simply tuning in to their "feed" (not to avoid parenting, but while we're prepping dinner, etc). I've heard of high end commercial systems that do this, but with the right hardware, linux could add this for "Free as in speech"
Ever since I got Tivo, I *never* watch programs in real-time. If I can't record it, I am not watching it.
Exactly. I rarely watch anything real time, besides the occasional football game (which is an event thing for me, I get/make calls from freinds and family to discuss stuff, if I'm behind by much I feel isolated). I may or may not skip commericals (if a product looks interesting, I'll go back and watch the ad), but really, I'm not the target for you Cholesterol/Cialis/Feminine Hygene/whatever ad, why do you care if I watch it?
But actually, I'm stuck w/ the FIOS DVR (ok, someday I could spring for a HD Tivo + Cablecard + Tivo subscription), and it definately sucks. I can't swicth between 2 live feeds anymore (in some cases the LAST button, in others not), I can't finish watching my live feed when the box needs to switch the channel (Tivo asks and then lets me finish watching after it switches, Motorola's DVR makes me start watching whatever program show its starting to record, and doesn't even warn me WHAT show it wants to change to (Really, I stopped watching my interesting program so you can record another instance of that same episode of Mythbusters?).
I'll need to check, if I can go back to DirectTivo in HD I may give up FIOS TV/DVR when my initial contract expires and just keep the FIOS internet, since FIOS doesn't have a no TV service tax like Comcast does (who are NOT an option if I have another choice).
At a non profit I used to work at we did something similar. Profitable devisions upgrade their pentiums, I'd take those to the "treading water" folks to replace their 486's, then I take those 486's to the dregs running 386's. Then one day the profitable decision decided they needed to get "credit" for their dregs. I wasn't around to see how that worked out, I jumped to a "Dot Com" around then...
They have decided to upgrade all the computer systems involved in the department If they are only upgrading ONE department, why not find out what other departments withing the university might be able to use them?
Unless we're talking murder or some serious crime, you're probably going to have a hard time getting the police interested in investing the resources to try to identify the perp and hunt them down and arrest them. One of the reasons is because of the difficulty in gathering evidence. About 90% of bank robbers are caught because banks have good surveillance systems. If you can provide the police decent video/photos of the crime/criminals you have a much better chance of getting them involved. They may recognize the criminal already (you may too, criminals tend not to travel far), and if they go to court the chance of success are very high.
Ok, I kept the stroke consistent to keep the math easy, but you are correct, smaller per cylinder displament implies shorter stroke if "well designed", which in turn implies a larger bore, thus, a greater circumference. Assuming your math is correct (ie you figured bore as d and not r, etc), the three has about 18% less piston surface area.
And while I don't think its a major factor in fuel economy, vs the manufacturing costs, I do recall my old CRX (the 1984 1.3L that got about 50mpg) having short piston skirts to minimize drag. So that may be a factor in chosing a 3 vs a 4 cylinder engine. But the original post referred to rotational mass as the driver, not internal friction.
For a given displacement, a 3 cylinder engine has less piston circumference than a 4 cylinder engine.
As I said, this is where Bore & Stoke come into play. Longer strokes have more time to extract energy from a given burn, at the cost of heavier/stronger components or lower peak RPM (Longer strokes = higher piston speeds for a set RPM). So assuming an I-4 would use the same stroke as an I-3 isn't a solid assumption, though to save development, many I-3's simply slice a piston off an already developed I-4. So of course the displacemenst no longer the same.
Ok, for the sake of arguement, lets keep the stroke consistent, meaning that a 4 cylinder with the same individual piston circumference has 33% larger displacement. So clearly the answer is less than 33%. Strokes the same, so we just figure the % change in circumference when we reduce the area by 33%, and we get just over 15% more piston circumference. Figure the crankshaft bearings area grows an equal percentage. So yes, there is a slight increase in internal drag, if you hold everything else constant. But these are oil lubricated surfaces, and the real world impact taken in combination w/ driveline friction, the contribution is minimal, even before you take in large resistance forces like tire rolling resistance and wind resistance, even at city speeds of 30 mph.
Sorry, but I don't buy that lower cylinder count contributes in any positive way to fuel efficiency. Its a manufacturing cost issue alone.
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I want to get into HD Video, Play w/ Virtualization, run multiple OS's, etc. so yes, I need something that powerful. Here's a hint, if its not only 4 cores, its not as powerful. Don't care if you've overclocked and peltier cooled that single CPU to 5 Ghz.
Anyway, that's my dream. I'm starting to save now :)
"Software circumvention of protection can be allowed for personal use in the event that no more then one copy is made and the new copy adds a new and at least equivalent layer of protection. This added protection must not be obsolete and must allow for an identical and identifiable copy."
Why limit it to 1 copy? This just forces another layer of DRM to manage that one copy.
1) Circumvention is allowed for transfer to player devices (ipod, home media system, etc.) by individuals
This would also cover other home media devices and library systems as well, even Linux and open source media players. Exempt the intent (to play).
2) Circumvention is allowed for creating personal use duplicates for the purpose of use in high risk environments such as automobiles and children's use for personal use.
This permits the making of backup media for a purpose just about every person familiar with kids can get behind.
Of course, once you legitimize these uses, the cats out of the bag. But think of the useful products that can be developed...
2) Per the video and article, teh fire in Building 7 was started by falling debris for teh main buildings, not by the airplanes.
You're arguing against a point nobody made...
One dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is about the size of the city of New Jersey and growing.
And why exactly would you throw it away?
Its just a matter of time until the release the CherryPal2...
There's not much left aside from IT and help-desk jobs.
And what is wrong w/ IT and Hemp Desk type jobs? Ok, personally, I avoid Help desk work, but I consciously chose IT over programming because I didn't want to work in a cube interacting w/ a computer all day any more than I wanted to be an actuary working in a cube interacting w/ a computer all day (Double major, Math & Comp Sci). And since he's already held jobs in tech support, it should be easy to get hired.
Of course, I leverage my programming skills a LOT writing scripts, etc. and could probably out program a lot of the developers I work with, but thats not a strict job requirement. Figure out what you are good at, and what you enjoy doing, then go after that job. Nothing wrong w/ a CS major selling insurance.
"0%" is not dead. In fact, spurious negative results are commonly reported with several methods, because of a failure of the underlying assumptions about the density of adipose tissue.
0% actual is dead. Fat plays critical roles in the body, if you didn't have any, you would die. I agree a 0% or even negative measured body fat is possible, but that's not my claim. Since I wasn't even close, I used the average of several methods to calculate what 0% would be (at 5'11, max was 190lbs, my 0% calculated to 200lbs), figuring the errors would round off, but I accept thats not the most accurate result. Most accurate test I ever had was a multi-site skinfold test, which gave surprisingly similar results (given the 4% variablility I would regularly see given hydration variances). But considering those numbers are supposed to represent a 5-20% body fat range, (15% is generally considered fit), the fact that I need to reach 0% to hit the upper range shows the failing of the method.I ran cross country, and I assure you that while those numbers are low, they are far from atypical. You run 15-25 miles a day for months at a time, and there isn't much fat left, regardless of how much you eat.
Doesn't matter, a typical cross country runner will still have 6-9% body fat. I suspect the measurement technique you were using was pushing the bounds of what it was capable of. With a 3% margin of error (your are at the outer limit of what it has been calibrated for, your getting 6%-8%). A body builder can get to 2-3% because he has so much other mass (cross country runner weighs 130 lbs, a weight lifter is 250 lbs) and uses "tricks" to fool their body temporarily. Note this Arnold page lists a off-season weight of 260 & a competition weight of 235 (an 11% swing!).Unless those tests were conducted using a water displacement test, I would tend to believe testing error accounts for the discrepancy.
Problem is body fat measures aren't accurate enough to draw a line with (25% body fat pays more) when they can vary by 3-6% pretty easily.
It was not average man vs average woman, it was above average woman vs average man.
Yes, a well known fact.
While probably a troll, this is just a stupid statement. In one on one fighting, the number of factors that affect the outcome are pretty large. Speed, environment, weapons, willingness to attack (most guys specifically avoid specific vulnerable targets in a testosterone based version of MAD). But a moderately athletic woman trained in a fighting skill would kick the average untrained man's ass; the same way a professional racer in a Taurus can out-lap the untrained in a sports car.
Destroy the paper ballots, the electronic records still exist. With a paper audit trail you now have to attack both systems, and do so so that your corrupted results match, else a flag is generated and an investigation starts. If nobody knows the results are bad, there's no investiagtion, and no need to cover your tracks (which gets harder the more complicated the system becomes.
No security system will ever be perfect, thats no reason to through up your hands and leave all your doors unlocked.
The voter should have an opportunity to verify the paper trail. He is the only one who can confirm the paper trail recorded his vote correctly. A shutter system could easily reveal only the voters's record to him. A comparison of the sign in rolls reveals that no "extra" votes were added.
Only way to be sure
Trick is, they are well aware and have likely structured the company to allow a simple simple collapse w/ minimal loss, after which MediaProtector will be reborn from the ashes, a completely different company w/ the exact same staff and an identical client list.
Best bet is to go after the company that hired them; prove they paid this company to break the law for them. The RIAA/MPAA will have a harder time collapsing and reforming...
That doesn't matter. They are buying licenses to run Vista, not licenses to run XP. Its still a Vista "sale". With the availability of downgrade rights, its foolish to buy XP Pro in place of Vista Business. Generally we're re-imaging the PC new from the factory anyway, and maybe they will eventually fix Vista (we all hated XP over 2000 when it came out)
Its not likely he'll quote "running Vista" numbers, there's a huge installed based and Vista doesn't like older hardware. My new Vista work PC blue screens reliably when I RDC to it because my new video card (to support dual displays) lacks Vista drivers. So I'll be roll out of Vista myself soon.
Interesting. What kind of tuner then is decoding the FIOS? What card is he using in the MythTV box? I've been toying with ideas to centralize the DVR feeds, if I could bypass that and record straight to a MythTV box, it would be even more powerful.
Idea being any TV could tune into HD feed 1, feed 2, feed 3, etc, by just changing channels, Feed 1 & Feed 2 could each have their own DVR like interface to a common pool of recorded shows, while Feed 3+ could be security cam feeds from fron door, etc.
Nice feature of that setup is we can monitor what the kids are watching remotely, by simply tuning in to their "feed" (not to avoid parenting, but while we're prepping dinner, etc). I've heard of high end commercial systems that do this, but with the right hardware, linux could add this for "Free as in speech"
Exactly. I rarely watch anything real time, besides the occasional football game (which is an event thing for me, I get/make calls from freinds and family to discuss stuff, if I'm behind by much I feel isolated). I may or may not skip commericals (if a product looks interesting, I'll go back and watch the ad), but really, I'm not the target for you Cholesterol/Cialis/Feminine Hygene/whatever ad, why do you care if I watch it?
But actually, I'm stuck w/ the FIOS DVR (ok, someday I could spring for a HD Tivo + Cablecard + Tivo subscription), and it definately sucks. I can't swicth between 2 live feeds anymore (in some cases the LAST button, in others not), I can't finish watching my live feed when the box needs to switch the channel (Tivo asks and then lets me finish watching after it switches, Motorola's DVR makes me start watching whatever program show its starting to record, and doesn't even warn me WHAT show it wants to change to (Really, I stopped watching my interesting program so you can record another instance of that same episode of Mythbusters?).
I'll need to check, if I can go back to DirectTivo in HD I may give up FIOS TV/DVR when my initial contract expires and just keep the FIOS internet, since FIOS doesn't have a no TV service tax like Comcast does (who are NOT an option if I have another choice).
At a non profit I used to work at we did something similar. Profitable devisions upgrade their pentiums, I'd take those to the "treading water" folks to replace their 486's, then I take those 486's to the dregs running 386's. Then one day the profitable decision decided they needed to get "credit" for their dregs. I wasn't around to see how that worked out, I jumped to a "Dot Com" around then...
And while I don't think its a major factor in fuel economy, vs the manufacturing costs, I do recall my old CRX (the 1984 1.3L that got about 50mpg) having short piston skirts to minimize drag. So that may be a factor in chosing a 3 vs a 4 cylinder engine. But the original post referred to rotational mass as the driver, not internal friction.
As I said, this is where Bore & Stoke come into play. Longer strokes have more time to extract energy from a given burn, at the cost of heavier/stronger components or lower peak RPM (Longer strokes = higher piston speeds for a set RPM). So assuming an I-4 would use the same stroke as an I-3 isn't a solid assumption, though to save development, many I-3's simply slice a piston off an already developed I-4. So of course the displacemenst no longer the same.
Ok, for the sake of arguement, lets keep the stroke consistent, meaning that a 4 cylinder with the same individual piston circumference has 33% larger displacement. So clearly the answer is less than 33%. Strokes the same, so we just figure the % change in circumference when we reduce the area by 33%, and we get just over 15% more piston circumference. Figure the crankshaft bearings area grows an equal percentage. So yes, there is a slight increase in internal drag, if you hold everything else constant. But these are oil lubricated surfaces, and the real world impact taken in combination w/ driveline friction, the contribution is minimal, even before you take in large resistance forces like tire rolling resistance and wind resistance, even at city speeds of 30 mph.
Sorry, but I don't buy that lower cylinder count contributes in any positive way to fuel efficiency. Its a manufacturing cost issue alone.