"It later emerged that hollow point bullets had been employed and a senior police source said that de Menezes' body had been "unrecognisable." The bullets are illegal in warfare, but are widely used in law enforcement where it may often be necessary to quickly stop an armed assailant."
If the Brits are up to that, I fully expect the Metro PD in Washington to be firing.50 caliber depleted uranium.
I remember paying fifty bucks a pop for games over 25 years ago--and I don't mean inflation adjusted. In 1980, Intellivision consoles cost $300--about $800 in 2007 money. Cartridges were $30-60, which is equivalent to $75 to well over $100 today.
After one particularly eye-opening electric bill, I started putting everything on timers, save one computer and my fridge. If I'm asleep or not at home, the power gets cut....at the prevailing rates around here, 1W constantly burning all month is about $5. So, $35/month just to let that A/V system sit idle. For the average person, that's about two hours of work. So, unless it takes four minutes out of your day, every day, it's not worth it. Considering we're probably talking more on the order of ten seconds per day, unless you are making in the neighborhood of $400/hour, you're "convenience" literally isn't worth it.
Scandinavia has the lowest rate in the world, Iceland beating everyone save North Dakota, which is populated nearly exclusively by Viking stock. Across Europe, there is a very strong correlation between latitude and HIV infection rates that roughly follows the increasing tendency toward pickling of both sustenance and self.
Problem is, no one, clear good method of using touch as the primary input method has presented itself...until now.
Except that it has been in use in common point-of-sale machines for, oh, about twenty years. The problem is there is no force feedback, which for the act of "typing" is useful not just in the ways that prompted engineers to put hammers inside the keyboards of IBM 3278s or deliberately add the obnoxious "click" to the Model M, namely to indicate successful input. Try to "type" on your desktop all day long. After you've shattered your nails and are soaking your bruised fingertips in ice water, the idea of a flat, rigid, unmoving surface for keyboarding will lose a bit of its appeal.
So, you managed by completely specious fiat to start at 730 (owing to narrowing "accident" to "DIED") down to 80, most questionably by accepting 402 could be thrown out because 'excess' was defined as not one but TWO pints. I've known a lot of limeys, but I've never known a single one to sit down for ONE pint.
But, getting back to the point--accidents due to alcohol--let's not go all out to busted indicator, let's just go to injuries sustained in alcohol-related traffic accidents that resulted in hospital addmission:
So, using your method, what markup do you think we should use for "traffic accidents not requiring hospitalization?" So far, I've been in four accidents. I've never required so much as a band-aid, so I think I'll just arbitrarily say you're dealing with a number more like 30,000--again, just for London. So, the UK being about 60M people, London only being about 8M of them, that's a rough per 352:100k, so nationally, we need to up it to about 211,200. There. That's better.
The Russian government is fully capable of saying "no." This is a trait they exhibit quite often about things far more consequential than the price of a frakking MP3. To say that it is somehow "interventionist" for their regulatory bodies to sit down at the table with industry associations they'd like to do business with and came up with an agreement at the expense of poor, disenfranchised organized crime that wasn't let in on the meeting is astoundingly stupid.
Company does business in a country, company seeks legal protection from the courts in that country. All corporations from all countries do that. BFD.
Besides, "effectively control the legal system" in the context of RUSSIA? That's a legal system in need of MAJOR work. Frankly, I'd rather the RIAA give a helping hand with getting it up to snuff than most of the local talent.
Sampling rate of 16-bit @ 44.1khz vs. 24-bit @ 192khz.
For 74 minutes of audio to the latter spec, you're talking about 2.5GB.
But, admittedly, most people couldn't care less about the quality difference with most music. But if you've ever heard the same recording on both formats, the difference is obvious, since you're basically getting a copy of the studio master.
On a Venn diagram, the population on the right intersects about 1% of the population on the left. When it comes to casual wear, Unix beards and unicycle parking with the lefthand folks, those sorts of things are enforced/after/ the salary negotiation and there's generally not much negotiation about it.
...living a stones throw away from the National Mall, I can tell you from experience that it is VERY easy to not even notice, with or without intention, when this city's population increases by one million overnight. Oddly enough, protesters also have a knack for always showing up on Saturdays in August--when there's no one here but cabbies and hot dog vendors. Besides, we're used to a half million out-of-town yahoos on any given day showing up and making it generally miserable to live anywhere near downtown. Another half million just makes us think "Damn, parking REALLY sucks today. Should'a cabbed it or taken Metro."
Seriously, if you really want to effect change in Washington, don't get a million people to stand around looking like belligerent slobs on the Mall (we don't care). You want Washington to snap to attention? Get a thousand people to book up Citronelle and the Capital Grille for six months straight. Hell, if you booked out the Willard and the Hay Adams for a year, you could pretty much veto-proof anything you wanted.
The last bit ("something you I.D.") seems marginally useful for identifying the I.D. challenger, but for identifying the one being challenged, it seems a bit useless. For example, my bank shows me one pre-chosen image from a potentially infinite set (I could upload any arbitrary image) to "prove" I'm still talking to them. Even for that, it's only marginally useful as the man-in-the-middle attack it seeks to thwart could easily be foiled by a man-on-the-inside. Bottom line is it is at worst a 1:n chance if you haven't a clue who you're dealing with, but if it is a targeted attack, it quickly approaches 1:1, which is pretty danged weak.
A combination of tests is certainly a good thing, but when the test could equally be "do you know this person" as "are you this person," there's not much point in bothering unless an affirmative to the former is sufficient.
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...than a civilization advanced enough to send robotic probes through interplanetary space being seemingly incapable of designing a WHEEL or reliably calculating a goddamned kilometer.
300-700Kbps is what is disclosed for expected performance for HSDPA on AT&T's network. When EGPRS is spec'd at 236-473Kbps, you're talking a floor difference of 22% and a ceiling difference 33%. Yes, that is significant. However, the spec for the HSDPA deployment by AT&T is 1.8-3.6Mbps. When throughput is consistently 500Kbps, you're talking differences of 300-700%.
So, let's recap. We have three scenarios:
1. EGPRS SPEC average 354.5 Kbps 2. HSDPA actual: 500.0 Kbps 3. HSDPA SPEC average 2700.0 Kbps
Now, would you say that #2 is more appropriately considered a close performance to #1 or #3? You know, #1, which on average is only 30% slower, or #3 that is 540% faster?
In clear line-of-site, I've not seen it push more than ~500Kbps and their website pretty clearly states expected performance is 300-700kbps--basically, speeds that EDGE was already supposed to support. I spent half an afternoon flipping settings around to make sure it/had/ to be on the 3G network with no fallback and even resorted to manually patching up the usbserial driver. It still consistently hit a wall at 500kbps, so I wonder if in this area (downtown Washington, DC) they haven't pulled the cap down further.
Considering the amount of time and number of production lots his various consoles were pulled from, it's fairly safe to assume his sample was random, with each pull having precisely the same odds of being a dud.
Not entirely different than rolling snake eyes eleven times in a row. It seems improbable, but in fact is no more or less improbable than any other sequence, yet there's always that one jackass Job who comes up snake eyes with every roll...
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No one who shops at Hot Topic thinks they're "mainstream," but once they stop, everyone who still does is even more so than they ever were.
That's so old skool, man. No, really.
...you rarely hear people screeching about the video records and databases kept by private toll operations.
Are they somehow inherently more trustworthy? Do people think they don't share that information with government when demanded?
This isn't terribly different, imho.
"It later emerged that hollow point bullets had been employed and a senior police source said that de Menezes' body had been "unrecognisable." The bullets are illegal in warfare, but are widely used in law enforcement where it may often be necessary to quickly stop an armed assailant."
.50 caliber depleted uranium.
If the Brits are up to that, I fully expect the Metro PD in Washington to be firing
I remember paying fifty bucks a pop for games over 25 years ago--and I don't mean inflation adjusted. In 1980, Intellivision consoles cost $300--about $800 in 2007 money. Cartridges were $30-60, which is equivalent to $75 to well over $100 today.
After one particularly eye-opening electric bill, I started putting everything on timers, save one computer and my fridge. If I'm asleep or not at home, the power gets cut.
Now, if someone could just define "reasonable."
Scandinavia has the lowest rate in the world, Iceland beating everyone save North Dakota, which is populated nearly exclusively by Viking stock. Across Europe, there is a very strong correlation between latitude and HIV infection rates that roughly follows the increasing tendency toward pickling of both sustenance and self.
If anything, it ain't the oil, it's the vinegar.
Problem is, no one, clear good method of using touch as the primary input method has presented itself...until now.
Except that it has been in use in common point-of-sale machines for, oh, about twenty years. The problem is there is no force feedback, which for the act of "typing" is useful not just in the ways that prompted engineers to put hammers inside the keyboards of IBM 3278s or deliberately add the obnoxious "click" to the Model M, namely to indicate successful input. Try to "type" on your desktop all day long. After you've shattered your nails and are soaking your bruised fingertips in ice water, the idea of a flat, rigid, unmoving surface for keyboarding will lose a bit of its appeal.
So, you managed by completely specious fiat to start at 730 (owing to narrowing "accident" to "DIED") down to 80, most questionably by accepting 402 could be thrown out because 'excess' was defined as not one but TWO pints. I've known a lot of limeys, but I've never known a single one to sit down for ONE pint.
i tions_associated_with_alcohol_admissions&deaths_03 04_1.xls
But, getting back to the point--accidents due to alcohol--let's not go all out to busted indicator, let's just go to injuries sustained in alcohol-related traffic accidents that resulted in hospital addmission:
http://www.lho.org.uk/Download/Public/9948/1/Cond
6,386 -- AND THAT'S JUST LONDON.
So, using your method, what markup do you think we should use for "traffic accidents not requiring hospitalization?" So far, I've been in four accidents. I've never required so much as a band-aid, so I think I'll just arbitrarily say you're dealing with a number more like 30,000--again, just for London. So, the UK being about 60M people, London only being about 8M of them, that's a rough per 352:100k, so nationally, we need to up it to about 211,200. There. That's better.
The Russian government is fully capable of saying "no." This is a trait they exhibit quite often about things far more consequential than the price of a frakking MP3. To say that it is somehow "interventionist" for their regulatory bodies to sit down at the table with industry associations they'd like to do business with and came up with an agreement at the expense of poor, disenfranchised organized crime that wasn't let in on the meeting is astoundingly stupid.
Company does business in a country, company seeks legal protection from the courts in that country. All corporations from all countries do that. BFD.
Besides, "effectively control the legal system" in the context of RUSSIA? That's a legal system in need of MAJOR work. Frankly, I'd rather the RIAA give a helping hand with getting it up to snuff than most of the local talent.
Double blind tests make it unlikely most people can even hear them.
That's precisely what I just said. Thanks for the clarification.
No one needs more than 8-bit 640x480.
Sampling rate of 16-bit @ 44.1khz vs. 24-bit @ 192khz.
For 74 minutes of audio to the latter spec, you're talking about 2.5GB.
But, admittedly, most people couldn't care less about the quality difference with most music. But if you've ever heard the same recording on both formats, the difference is obvious, since you're basically getting a copy of the studio master.
('IT Professional' != [geek|nerd])
/after/ the salary negotiation and there's generally not much negotiation about it.
On a Venn diagram, the population on the right intersects about 1% of the population on the left. When it comes to casual wear, Unix beards and unicycle parking with the lefthand folks, those sorts of things are enforced
...living a stones throw away from the National Mall, I can tell you from experience that it is VERY easy to not even notice, with or without intention, when this city's population increases by one million overnight. Oddly enough, protesters also have a knack for always showing up on Saturdays in August--when there's no one here but cabbies and hot dog vendors. Besides, we're used to a half million out-of-town yahoos on any given day showing up and making it generally miserable to live anywhere near downtown. Another half million just makes us think "Damn, parking REALLY sucks today. Should'a cabbed it or taken Metro."
Seriously, if you really want to effect change in Washington, don't get a million people to stand around looking like belligerent slobs on the Mall (we don't care). You want Washington to snap to attention? Get a thousand people to book up Citronelle and the Capital Grille for six months straight. Hell, if you booked out the Willard and the Hay Adams for a year, you could pretty much veto-proof anything you wanted.
The last bit ("something you I.D.") seems marginally useful for identifying the I.D. challenger, but for identifying the one being challenged, it seems a bit useless. For example, my bank shows me one pre-chosen image from a potentially infinite set (I could upload any arbitrary image) to "prove" I'm still talking to them. Even for that, it's only marginally useful as the man-in-the-middle attack it seeks to thwart could easily be foiled by a man-on-the-inside. Bottom line is it is at worst a 1:n chance if you haven't a clue who you're dealing with, but if it is a targeted attack, it quickly approaches 1:1, which is pretty danged weak.
A combination of tests is certainly a good thing, but when the test could equally be "do you know this person" as "are you this person," there's not much point in bothering unless an affirmative to the former is sufficient.
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Microsoft blahblahblah Linux blahblahblah Corporations blahblahblah Users blahblahblah Doesn't Matter blahblahblah Or Does It blahblahblah Who Cares? blahblahblah Apparently, none of the above blahblahblah click here to make me some money.
...than a civilization advanced enough to send robotic probes through interplanetary space being seemingly incapable of designing a WHEEL or reliably calculating a goddamned kilometer.
300-700Kbps is what is disclosed for expected performance for HSDPA on AT&T's network. When EGPRS is spec'd at 236-473Kbps, you're talking a floor difference of 22% and a ceiling difference 33%. Yes, that is significant. However, the spec for the HSDPA deployment by AT&T is 1.8-3.6Mbps. When throughput is consistently 500Kbps, you're talking differences of 300-700%.
So, let's recap. We have three scenarios:
1. EGPRS SPEC average 354.5 Kbps
2. HSDPA actual: 500.0 Kbps
3. HSDPA SPEC average 2700.0 Kbps
Now, would you say that #2 is more appropriately considered a close performance to #1 or #3? You know, #1, which on average is only 30% slower, or #3 that is 540% faster?
"BASICALLY," as in "not a great deal superior to."
Christ.
In clear line-of-site, I've not seen it push more than ~500Kbps and their website pretty clearly states expected performance is 300-700kbps--basically, speeds that EDGE was already supposed to support. I spent half an afternoon flipping settings around to make sure it
Kthx,
Ric R.
Considering the amount of time and number of production lots his various consoles were pulled from, it's fairly safe to assume
his sample was random, with each pull having precisely the same odds of being a dud.
Not entirely different than rolling snake eyes eleven times in a row. It seems improbable, but in fact is no more or less improbable than any other sequence, yet there's always that one jackass Job who comes up snake eyes with every roll...
See: "Luck"