Said person supposedly operating in ignorance could be given the benefit of the doubt with exactly _ONE_ warning, and given a finite interval (perhaps 2 weeks) in which to rectify the situation. Failure to comply within that interval would leave them without any excuse for not knowing they were distributing.
Looks like you won't be writing any legislation any time soon! Your "clause" will never make it into any law anytime soon. The Hollywood/Music moguls won't stand for it.
"You're standing in the way of progress!!" They really mean, you're standing the way of profits! Leniency is not what the music/movie moguls are selling. They want money, and they want more. They want to avoid progress. They would be perfectly happy without the internet. They'd be happy if CD's were copyprotected. They could jack the price up even higher. They want copyrights to last forever. That's why in 2050 or whenever the copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to expire, some Senator will come to the rescue of Disney and make their copyright unlimited. Politics in this country has become a vehicle for the rich, and it's in both parties... left and right.
Voting will not solve this issue. Do you want to know why? Because 99% of the politicians in this country have no interest in solving problems, they only want to get elected and stay in power.
Politicians will never solve issues like these. Politicians listen to the richest members of their base. For the left, that means Hollywood. For the right, it means big business. Politicians legislate accordingling. Grandstanding is common. They "reward" luxurious bureaucratic appointments as favors. These bureaucrats then sit in office, maintain the status quo. They don't want things to change. They'll buck the system every chance they can. Bureaucrats sit in office and do their very best to retain their positions by making others look bad. It's a big, serious case of CYA - cover your ass. If you do that, and don't do anything else, you probalby have a nice long career ahead of you in DC.
Politics in this country (both left and right) are 100% aimed at celebrating their own beliefs and bashing that of anyone else's.
For 4 years, we've heard the left screaming about the right, and the right defending their decisions. Look at what Kerry and Bush have been saying about the war on terrorism. For months, Kerry's been pointing people to his website. Finally, Edwards has come out with some steps in their plan, and it's the same shit we've heard from either side for years. "I plan to increase funding." The only difference is where they get the funding.
The left taxes the shit out of everyone. The right borrows the money.
Frankly, neither solution is attractive to me. I think the private sector should take over national security. Write a nice contract, take into account liability, and pay them accordingly, based on performance. Try it for a couple years. It CAN'T be any worse than what we have now. The government buys $1300 toilet seats, and $750 hammers. Contracting out would be a good solution. Pay for performance. The only thing that would stand in the way would be the unions. The unions would scream bloody murder if they weren't there to put the whole thing to a screeching halt.
I have a 19" Mitsubishi CRT that does 1920 x 1440. I run 1600x1200 most of the time. I don't think I'd have much luck finding an LCD or Plasma screen that could handle those resolutions for anything close to a reasonable price.
I have friends with DSL, and they have the option of buying a block of 6 IP addresses. My neighbor has cable modem and a wi-fi card. I have a cable modem and a wi-fi card. It would not be hard to put 3, 4, 5, or 6 people together and screw the other players at a table.
I have no interest in gambling, and I certainly wouldn't risk my own money in any online gambling. I think that lotteries and gambling in general are a tax for the stupid.
This isn't some method to fleece customers. It's a way to establish credibility. I've had SecurID fobs for years. They are a pain in the ass, but they are secure. They are reliable. I've never had any problem with "out-of-synch" as one other thread mentioned.
It was nice for travelling. I could get into our intranet from anywhere in the world.
While 'bots are a serious topic, there is a solution. Make the "user" periodically enter in some text that has been graphically morphed... something that only a human eye can recognize. It can be done in seconds, and that would eliminate the use of 'bots.
What I can't figure out is how the gambling industry is going to fight "group cheating". Put 4 or 5 laptops together, and have several people cheat the rest of the table out of their money by sharing their hands. It's not hard to do, and it's impossible to detect. Especially with wireless access.
I have a couple of friends that refuse to play online because it's impossible to stop this behavior in online poker.
You don't think that maybe the failure of all those dotcoms had something to do with it? Pets.com couldn't make it selling dogfood over the internet. How many employees did they have in their IT department? How much did they spend on servers, web site software, custom applications? How many thousand dotcoms also failed, and also laid off thousands and thousands of IT personnel? All of those companies that went down the tubes also bought a crapload of stuff from the carriers. What happened to the carriers? They got stuck with billions in infrastructure, and no one to sell it to. It's amazing that there's only been a 20% reduction. Most companies were living high on the hog from 1995 to 2000. IT departments were spending at record levels. They couldn't spend fast enough.
Cutting 20% seems like a small number to me. And I don't blame it on outsourcing. Sure, there is an outsourcing problem, but the 20% reductions isn't as big of a factor as some make it out to be. I've been part of an outsourcing project, and it's a completely ugly proposition. Yes, there's some programming and lower level stuff, but it's stuff that we either couldn't find in the US, or stuff that no one else wanted to do. We contracted out help desk stuff to India, and it failed miserably. The language barrier was more trouble than upper management believed.
I firmly believe that most companies trimmed a lot of excess fat, and the rest of lost jobs are from dotcoms that simply were bound to fail. End of story.
I love it when bean counters decide that years of end-user pain and agony is worth $500 or $1000 savings on a cheap piece of hardware.
I've installed, maintained, configured, and troubleshooted hundreds of routers over the past 10 years. Hardware costs are not the only thing to consider. If you think saving 30%-50% in hardware costs is great, how about spending 200% more in labor costs, year after year? How about outfitting your NOC with an expensive new monitoring package exclusively designed for your new hardware? How about facing growth limits? How about watching your network go from 99.9999% uptime to something less?
What do you tell your customer/client base? "We're saving $1000 per router. I'm sorry that you'll have to live with ______ and ______ for the next few years." What is that worth to you? When there is trouble, listen to the vendors bicker over the reason(s). What is it worth to wait 1 year or more for a bug fix? And then discover that in order to get that bug fix, you might have to buy new hardware?
People don't realize what's involved in building a network. Reliability, room-for-growth, and features are everything. There are problems in every network. Giving your users a productive, working environment is the ultimate goal. Gambling with new hardware is not something I'd like to do very often.
I can guarantee this: I'll pay double for a reliable piece of hardware that does EXACTLY what I want, all the time when I know that the other end is the same brand of hardware. Plus, the carrier in between is using the same hardware. Plus, it's been lab tested by everyone. It gets better: One phone call and all my problems and answers are readily available.
Every one of those things saves time and money. User experience is more positive because features are better, and there isn't any finger pointing between hardware vendors. I don't have to spend money buying multiple hardware platforms to labtest. I don't have to worry about mixed-vendor networks. Have you ever installed a mixed-vendor network? It's one of the most painful experiences you could ever have. I would put it right up there with kidney stones, and having fingernails forcibly removed with a pair of pliers.
Bean counters that want cheap hardware are usually going to pay increased labor costs. They will have workarounds and painful experiences for their end-users. It's NOT WORTH IT! If you want 99.9999% uptime, error-free performance, buy the best product available.
Cheap hardware is almost always feature-less, inflexible, and painful to live with. How many people remember 3Com's last go-around with routers? Easy to configure, but limited flexibility, and lacking features makes it harder to live with in the long run. Oh, and darn near impossible to troubleshoot. We had to outfit all of our technicians with $100K protocol analyzers to prove the trouble to cheap 3Com (and other) hardware because of the finger-pointing.
Look at it another way: If you're buying a Cadillac for the home office, why would you buy a Ford Pinto for the remote offices? It doesn't make sense. If you were building a space shuttle... are you going to use the cheapest hardware? Why would you do that with your network?
There's a reason why Cisco has 90% of the market. Cisco has the most features. Everything hinges on software. While there are bugs in software, Cisco OS is fantastic. Features like EIGRP and HSRP make Cisco worthwhile. Interoperability with Cisco's LAN equipment make it worthwhile. Also, think about training, grey market materials, and used goods. Cisco is out there, commonly available. If you pick 3Com access routers, you've got to hire/train people to handle a new brand of unknown hardware. Training is expensive. And if your best-trained expert leaves, you've got to go find someone else. Finding Cisco people is easier.
People talk about Juniper. Juniper excels at one specific niche. The big, big router... basically IP to OC48 stuff. How many of those do you need? Juniper talks about the "pepsi challenge", but frankly, they'll have to go over and above Cisco to win my vote. There are other products, but you still end up with a mixed-vendor network.
Intel is issuing PR to keep their name in the papers. They are using the media to create artificial "news". Intel has been losing market share, and rather than see their stock plummet, they make baseless claims to lead the public into believing that we can't live without Intel's leadership.
Frankly, I think Intel should sink more time and effort into R&D, and bring products to market that the public wants to buy.
When a company is in trouble, they usually do everything they can to focus attention away from their products and performance. It'll be interesting to see what Intel does in the next few months.
How would you feel if your bank said, "Write a check at the porn store, and we're charging you $500!"
It's a violation of our freedom. I've never, ever liked Paypal for their ability to screw the consumer without answering to anyone for any reason. There's a lot of discontent out there... just search for Paypal sucks sites... there are a lot of them. Thank god I don't have an account.
I doubt that Intel is looking out for anyone but Intel. Intel has a good track record of looking out for themselves and no one else. They want to be "in on the ground floor."
Compressed or not, DirecTV blows away Comcast digital cable. Completely. I have had both. I have an HD Mitsu TV. Comcast should be embarrassed for the product they put out. DirecTV, even in standard definition beats some of the "digital" Comcast channels. I never tried HD through Comcast, I got tired of waiting.
Minnesota and Wisconsin get a lot of Chicago criminals. It happened in the '30s during prohibition. It's been happening again with gangs and drugs, and it'll get worse when they turn on the cameras. Sure, it will clean up part of Chicago, but it will just push the problem somewhere else. It's like turning on the lights, and watching the cockroaches run. The cockroaches aren't taken care of, they're just not visible anymore.
On a positive note, I'd think that law-abiding citizens would appreciate the cameras in their neighborhood. Some of these neighborhoods are screaming for help, especially when it's quicker to get a pizza delivered than it is to get a cop to respond to a breakin or a mugging. The hoodlums will quickly leave. The problem just moves elsewhere.
I'd like to see a comparison: NY City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani hired 10,000 police officers, vs. Daley's installation of a big video surveillance system in Chicago.
Another method to show Comcast exactly how CRAPPY their cable TV really is. I'm glad I switched to satellite. It's so much better.
Who needs this stuff? I have these features on a couple DVD players, and I've never used it. Pause, stop, fast forward. That's it. Tell Sony to put a fast forward (through commercials), and then I'll be interested.
MS needs to get their product integrated into China's schools. It's like heroin or McDonald's. If you get them early enough, they're hooked, and they'll never learn anything else. They'll struggle with viruses, backdoor trojans, and everything else, just like the rest of us.
Oh yeah, once they're hooked... and completely under MS's will, start jacking the price around... every year, change the licensing scheme to get every last yen? What's the currency in China? Certainly not the dollar or the euro. Silk?? Whatever it is... MS will do their best to eek out every last shilling from the Chinese.
If you show up to vote with a bill or a statement from someone, as long as it has your name and address, you can register and vote at the same time. Oh... you need to have been a resident in Minnesota for 30 days.
Get this: Even if you don't have anything with your name and address, you can have a friend vouch for you and you're registered, and can vote right there at the polling place.
This is a union thug's dream! They can drive around, vouch for each other at every polling place in which they have a member, and really get their candidate elected.
Oh, once you vote, you are registered, and you never need to worry about registering ever again. That's it. It doesn't get any easier than that.
I just don't get why registering is such a big deal. Registering to vote isn't that complex. Why all the attention? Is the rest of the US that bass-ackwards? Is there some reason why people can't register to vote? Is it like donating blood? Do you have to go jump through hoops to register? Why all the fuss?
Interlacing is a tradeoff. It's cheaper to interlace.
At higher frequencies, the human eye/brain don't see the difference between progressive and interlaced picture.
Progressive scan is much better at lower frequencies because the eye/brain doesn't see any flicker, especially at 30hz. At 60 hz, you can stay interlaced at higher resolutions before the human eye/brain start to notice.
If the manufacturers ran their TVs at some obscene frequency... like 200hz, you'd never hear anyone mention progressive scan.
I like 1080i much better than 720P. It's hard to notice artifacts in 1080i with the better resolution. In fact, I'd like to skip 720P and go right to 1440i.
Schools are not about teaching. They are about money. School teachers have been weeded out of administration by politicians who campaign for money.
When have you heard, "We have enough money to get a good education for our students this year." ??? You will never hear anyone associated with education say those words. But you will hear, "Our scores would be better if we had more money."
Kids are taught from an early age to equate money with education. They will not say, "You can't get a good education because there isn't enough money." They will say: "Tell your parents to vote for the tax levy because we need a new $56 million dollar building, otherwise, you will not get a good education." Or, "We want to buy new _____ so they can learn better." Kids equate money with education. They're taught that school teachers don't make much money. They need new textbooks, and textbooks cost a lot of money. Money is the problem. "We need to cancel music or art because we don't have any money."
The truth is, there will never be enough money in the universe for education. "We need to close a few schools because we don't have any money."
Money solves all problems. "If we paid more money, we would attract better teachers." Administrators pass this stuff down to the teachers, the school board, and the newspapers.
Teachers pass it to the kids. They send notes home to the parents. With all this talking and crying about money, no one gets an education. Teacher unions are squarely focused on money. They have no concern over quality education. In fact, it's quite the opposite. If quality came into play, then teachers would be judged, and unions don't want teachers to be judged.
Another common statement, "We need new books." I hate to say it, but math hasn't changed much. Neither has reading or writing. Yet every year, the textbook gets a new revision, teachers simply have to have it to "stay current."
Good teachers are weeded out of administration to be replaced by politicians who can campaign for budget.
The problem is, eventually, everyone will have one, and then the insurance companies won't have any reason to give ANYONE a discount anymore, and people will still have accidents, and insurance rates will go back up to where they were before.
In any event, I submitted this info about a working trial in Minnesota a long, long time ago, and it was ignored until now. Minnesota has had a working trial for quite some time. It was recently expanded.
To re-hash what someone else mentioned... I don't think/. is worth a subscription either. Why would I pay money to see favoritism, sloppy handling, and repetition when I can see it for free?
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Booster rockets were mentioned by Burt Rutan for use on his spacecraft in future iterations if they ever wanted to reach higher orbit.
Personally, I think Congress is woefully inept when it comes to "regulating" new technology.
You'll need a permit to take off, and a permit to land. You'll probably have to pay through the ass to do it too.
Anyone want to donate an island for space travel? At least for launches?
We could go to Mexico for cheap space travel? I imagine the Mexican government would love the added tourism and influx of cash.
Said person supposedly operating in ignorance could be given the benefit of the doubt with exactly _ONE_ warning, and given a finite interval (perhaps 2 weeks) in which to rectify the situation. Failure to comply within that interval would leave them without any excuse for not knowing they were distributing.
Looks like you won't be writing any legislation any time soon! Your "clause" will never make it into any law anytime soon. The Hollywood/Music moguls won't stand for it.
"You're standing in the way of progress!!" They really mean, you're standing the way of profits!
Leniency is not what the music/movie moguls are selling.
They want money, and they want more. They want to avoid progress. They would be perfectly happy without the internet. They'd be happy if CD's were copyprotected. They could jack the price up even higher. They want copyrights to last forever. That's why in 2050 or whenever the copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to expire, some Senator will come to the rescue of Disney and make their copyright unlimited. Politics in this country has become a vehicle for the rich, and it's in both parties... left and right.
I'm surprised that VCRs and CDRs are still legal.
Voting will not solve this issue. Do you want to know why? Because 99% of the politicians in this country have no interest in solving problems, they only want to get elected and stay in power.
Politicians will never solve issues like these. Politicians listen to the richest members of their base. For the left, that means Hollywood. For the right, it means big business. Politicians legislate accordingling. Grandstanding is common. They "reward" luxurious bureaucratic appointments as favors. These bureaucrats then sit in office, maintain the status quo. They don't want things to change. They'll buck the system every chance they can. Bureaucrats sit in office and do their very best to retain their positions by making others look bad. It's a big, serious case of CYA - cover your ass. If you do that, and don't do anything else, you probalby have a nice long career ahead of you in DC.
Politics in this country (both left and right) are 100% aimed at celebrating their own beliefs and bashing that of anyone else's.
For 4 years, we've heard the left screaming about the right, and the right defending their decisions. Look at what Kerry and Bush have been saying about the war on terrorism. For months, Kerry's been pointing people to his website. Finally, Edwards has come out with some steps in their plan, and it's the same shit we've heard from either side for years. "I plan to increase funding."
The only difference is where they get the funding. The left taxes the shit out of everyone. The right borrows the money.
Frankly, neither solution is attractive to me. I think the private sector should take over national security. Write a nice contract, take into account liability, and pay them accordingly, based on performance. Try it for a couple years. It CAN'T be any worse than what we have now. The government buys $1300 toilet seats, and $750 hammers. Contracting out would be a good solution. Pay for performance. The only thing that would stand in the way would be the unions. The unions would scream bloody murder if they weren't there to put the whole thing to a screeching halt.
I have a 19" Mitsubishi CRT that does 1920 x 1440. I run 1600x1200 most of the time. I don't think I'd have much luck finding an LCD or Plasma screen that could handle those resolutions for anything close to a reasonable price.
When you get out of bed in the morning, how do you make yourself believe that you have a chance to win an election?
Which drug is most popular at Green Party headquarters?
I have friends with DSL, and they have the option of buying a block of 6 IP addresses. My neighbor has cable modem and a wi-fi card. I have a cable modem and a wi-fi card. It would not be hard to put 3, 4, 5, or 6 people together and screw the other players at a table.
I have no interest in gambling, and I certainly wouldn't risk my own money in any online gambling. I think that lotteries and gambling in general are a tax for the stupid.
This isn't some method to fleece customers. It's a way to establish credibility. I've had SecurID fobs for years. They are a pain in the ass, but they are secure. They are reliable. I've never had any problem with "out-of-synch" as one other thread mentioned.
It was nice for travelling. I could get into our intranet from anywhere in the world.
While 'bots are a serious topic, there is a solution. Make the "user" periodically enter in some text that has been graphically morphed... something that only a human eye can recognize. It can be done in seconds, and that would eliminate the use of 'bots.
What I can't figure out is how the gambling industry is going to fight "group cheating". Put 4 or 5 laptops together, and have several people cheat the rest of the table out of their money by sharing their hands. It's not hard to do, and it's impossible to detect. Especially with wireless access.
I have a couple of friends that refuse to play online because it's impossible to stop this behavior in online poker.
You don't think that maybe the failure of all those dotcoms had something to do with it? Pets.com couldn't make it selling dogfood over the internet. How many employees did they have in their IT department? How much did they spend on servers, web site software, custom applications? How many thousand dotcoms also failed, and also laid off thousands and thousands of IT personnel? All of those companies that went down the tubes also bought a crapload of stuff from the carriers. What happened to the carriers? They got stuck with billions in infrastructure, and no one to sell it to. It's amazing that there's only been a 20% reduction. Most companies were living high on the hog from 1995 to 2000. IT departments were spending at record levels. They couldn't spend fast enough.
Cutting 20% seems like a small number to me. And I don't blame it on outsourcing. Sure, there is an outsourcing problem, but the 20% reductions isn't as big of a factor as some make it out to be. I've been part of an outsourcing project, and it's a completely ugly proposition. Yes, there's some programming and lower level stuff, but it's stuff that we either couldn't find in the US, or stuff that no one else wanted to do. We contracted out help desk stuff to India, and it failed miserably. The language barrier was more trouble than upper management believed.
I firmly believe that most companies trimmed a lot of excess fat, and the rest of lost jobs are from dotcoms that simply were bound to fail. End of story.
I love it when bean counters decide that years of end-user pain and agony is worth $500 or $1000 savings on a cheap piece of hardware.
I've installed, maintained, configured, and troubleshooted hundreds of routers over the past 10 years. Hardware costs are not the only thing to consider. If you think saving 30%-50% in hardware costs is great, how about spending 200% more in labor costs, year after year? How about outfitting your NOC with an expensive new monitoring package exclusively designed for your new hardware? How about facing growth limits? How about watching your network go from 99.9999% uptime to something less?
What do you tell your customer/client base? "We're saving $1000 per router. I'm sorry that you'll have to live with ______ and ______ for the next few years." What is that worth to you? When there is trouble, listen to the vendors bicker over the reason(s). What is it worth to wait 1 year or more for a bug fix? And then discover that in order to get that bug fix, you might have to buy new hardware?
People don't realize what's involved in building a network. Reliability, room-for-growth, and features are everything. There are problems in every network. Giving your users a productive, working environment is the ultimate goal. Gambling with new hardware is not something I'd like to do very often.
I can guarantee this: I'll pay double for a reliable piece of hardware that does EXACTLY what I want, all the time when I know that the other end is the same brand of hardware. Plus, the carrier in between is using the same hardware. Plus, it's been lab tested by everyone. It gets better: One phone call and all my problems and answers are readily available. Every one of those things saves time and money. User experience is more positive because features are better, and there isn't any finger pointing between hardware vendors. I don't have to spend money buying multiple hardware platforms to labtest. I don't have to worry about mixed-vendor networks. Have you ever installed a mixed-vendor network? It's one of the most painful experiences you could ever have. I would put it right up there with kidney stones, and having fingernails forcibly removed with a pair of pliers.
Bean counters that want cheap hardware are usually going to pay increased labor costs. They will have workarounds and painful experiences for their end-users. It's NOT WORTH IT! If you want 99.9999% uptime, error-free performance, buy the best product available.
Cheap hardware is almost always feature-less, inflexible, and painful to live with. How many people remember 3Com's last go-around with routers? Easy to configure, but limited flexibility, and lacking features makes it harder to live with in the long run. Oh, and darn near impossible to troubleshoot. We had to outfit all of our technicians with $100K protocol analyzers to prove the trouble to cheap 3Com (and other) hardware because of the finger-pointing.
Look at it another way: If you're buying a Cadillac for the home office, why would you buy a Ford Pinto for the remote offices? It doesn't make sense. If you were building a space shuttle... are you going to use the cheapest hardware? Why would you do that with your network? There's a reason why Cisco has 90% of the market. Cisco has the most features. Everything hinges on software. While there are bugs in software, Cisco OS is fantastic. Features like EIGRP and HSRP make Cisco worthwhile. Interoperability with Cisco's LAN equipment make it worthwhile. Also, think about training, grey market materials, and used goods. Cisco is out there, commonly available. If you pick 3Com access routers, you've got to hire/train people to handle a new brand of unknown hardware. Training is expensive. And if your best-trained expert leaves, you've got to go find someone else. Finding Cisco people is easier.
People talk about Juniper. Juniper excels at one specific niche. The big, big router... basically IP to OC48 stuff. How many of those do you need? Juniper talks about the "pepsi challenge", but frankly, they'll have to go over and above Cisco to win my vote. There are other products, but you still end up with a mixed-vendor network.
Intel is issuing PR to keep their name in the papers. They are using the media to create artificial "news". Intel has been losing market share, and rather than see their stock plummet, they make baseless claims to lead the public into believing that we can't live without Intel's leadership.
Frankly, I think Intel should sink more time and effort into R&D, and bring products to market that the public wants to buy.
When a company is in trouble, they usually do everything they can to focus attention away from their products and performance. It'll be interesting to see what Intel does in the next few months.
How would you feel if your bank said, "Write a check at the porn store, and we're charging you $500!"
It's a violation of our freedom. I've never, ever liked Paypal for their ability to screw the consumer without answering to anyone for any reason. There's a lot of discontent out there... just search for Paypal sucks sites... there are a lot of them. Thank god I don't have an account.
I doubt that Intel is looking out for anyone but Intel. Intel has a good track record of looking out for themselves and no one else. They want to be "in on the ground floor."
Compressed or not, DirecTV blows away Comcast digital cable. Completely. I have had both. I have an HD Mitsu TV. Comcast should be embarrassed for the product they put out. DirecTV, even in standard definition beats some of the "digital" Comcast channels. I never tried HD through Comcast, I got tired of waiting.
Minnesota and Wisconsin get a lot of Chicago criminals. It happened in the '30s during prohibition. It's been happening again with gangs and drugs, and it'll get worse when they turn on the cameras. Sure, it will clean up part of Chicago, but it will just push the problem somewhere else. It's like turning on the lights, and watching the cockroaches run. The cockroaches aren't taken care of, they're just not visible anymore.
On a positive note, I'd think that law-abiding citizens would appreciate the cameras in their neighborhood. Some of these neighborhoods are screaming for help, especially when it's quicker to get a pizza delivered than it is to get a cop to respond to a breakin or a mugging. The hoodlums will quickly leave. The problem just moves elsewhere.
I'd like to see a comparison: NY City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani hired 10,000 police officers, vs. Daley's installation of a big video surveillance system in Chicago.
Another method to show Comcast exactly how CRAPPY their cable TV really is. I'm glad I switched to satellite. It's so much better.
Who needs this stuff? I have these features on a couple DVD players, and I've never used it. Pause, stop, fast forward. That's it. Tell Sony to put a fast forward (through commercials), and then I'll be interested.
MS needs to get their product integrated into China's schools. It's like heroin or McDonald's. If you get them early enough, they're hooked, and they'll never learn anything else. They'll struggle with viruses, backdoor trojans, and everything else, just like the rest of us.
Oh yeah, once they're hooked... and completely under MS's will, start jacking the price around... every year, change the licensing scheme to get every last yen? What's the currency in China? Certainly not the dollar or the euro. Silk?? Whatever it is... MS will do their best to eek out every last shilling from the Chinese.
If you show up to vote with a bill or a statement from someone, as long as it has your name and address, you can register and vote at the same time. Oh... you need to have been a resident in Minnesota for 30 days.
Get this: Even if you don't have anything with your name and address, you can have a friend vouch for you and you're registered, and can vote right there at the polling place.
This is a union thug's dream! They can drive around, vouch for each other at every polling place in which they have a member, and really get their candidate elected.
Oh, once you vote, you are registered, and you never need to worry about registering ever again. That's it. It doesn't get any easier than that.
I just don't get why registering is such a big deal. Registering to vote isn't that complex. Why all the attention? Is the rest of the US that bass-ackwards? Is there some reason why people can't register to vote? Is it like donating blood? Do you have to go jump through hoops to register? Why all the fuss?
Interlacing is a tradeoff. It's cheaper to interlace.
At higher frequencies, the human eye/brain don't see the difference between progressive and interlaced picture.
Progressive scan is much better at lower frequencies because the eye/brain doesn't see any flicker, especially at 30hz. At 60 hz, you can stay interlaced at higher resolutions before the human eye/brain start to notice. If the manufacturers ran their TVs at some obscene frequency... like 200hz, you'd never hear anyone mention progressive scan.
More anti-corporate crap. You probably buy your coffee at Starbucks and wipe your ass with Charmin.
I like 1080i much better than 720P. It's hard to notice artifacts in 1080i with the better resolution. In fact, I'd like to skip 720P and go right to 1440i.
Schools are not about teaching. They are about money. School teachers have been weeded out of administration by politicians who campaign for money.
When have you heard, "We have enough money to get a good education for our students this year." ???
You will never hear anyone associated with education say those words.
But you will hear, "Our scores would be better if we had more money."
Kids are taught from an early age to equate money with education. They will not say, "You can't get a good education because there isn't enough money."
They will say: "Tell your parents to vote for the tax levy because we need a new $56 million dollar building, otherwise, you will not get a good education." Or, "We want to buy new _____ so they can learn better."
Kids equate money with education.
They're taught that school teachers don't make much money.
They need new textbooks, and textbooks cost a lot of money.
Money is the problem. "We need to cancel music or art because we don't have any money."
The truth is, there will never be enough money in the universe for education. "We need to close a few schools because we don't have any money."
Money solves all problems. "If we paid more money, we would attract better teachers."
Administrators pass this stuff down to the teachers, the school board, and the newspapers.
Teachers pass it to the kids. They send notes home to the parents.
With all this talking and crying about money, no one gets an education. Teacher unions are squarely focused on money. They have no concern over quality education. In fact, it's quite the opposite. If quality came into play, then teachers would be judged, and unions don't want teachers to be judged.
Another common statement, "We need new books."
I hate to say it, but math hasn't changed much. Neither has reading or writing. Yet every year, the textbook gets a new revision, teachers simply have to have it to "stay current." Good teachers are weeded out of administration to be replaced by politicians who can campaign for budget.
Full text available here.... should read, "Buy book here."
The problem is, eventually, everyone will have one, and then the insurance companies won't have any reason to give ANYONE a discount anymore, and people will still have accidents, and insurance rates will go back up to where they were before.
/. is worth a subscription either. Why would I pay money to see favoritism, sloppy handling, and repetition when I can see it for free?
In any event, I submitted this info about a working trial in Minnesota a long, long time ago, and it was ignored until now. Minnesota has had a working trial for quite some time. It was recently expanded.
To re-hash what someone else mentioned... I don't think