I especially like the part where R-rated movies were included in the bill based on the conclusions of similar dubious studies. Oh, wait, they weren't. Wonder why that is?
More importantly, who says you can't get a physically smaller LCD screen than the iPhone with the same number of pixels.
There are several phones out now (HTC, OpenMoko) with a 2.8" 640x480 LCD. There is no reason an iPhone Nano couldn't sport a 480x320 2.2" display and have zero resolution-based issues.
Personally I'm glad the program is out of money. I would have ordered more coupons and let them expire had it been legal.
I have nothing against TV. I do have something against welfare for TV-viewers who can't or won't spend $40 for something to allow them to keep watching.
I ordered my allocation and promptly shredded them. I know they go back into the pool at some point but I'm hoping that time period will be long enough that the transition will have happened and the government won't have to reissue them.
If you can't afford a $40 converter box, turn the TV off and get a job.
Ooh. You should take more care to get that metaphor right. When "armor" is replaced by a word that encompasses "group of people," chink assumes a definition I'm sure you didn't intend.
Check the statistics on charitable giving to see what I mean.
Let's be honest about this breakdown. The real divide is between secular and non-secular haves (vs. have-nots), they just happen to split fairly nicely along party lines.
Giving to your local church in my view is not the same as giving to a charity doing important work in the real world. Some churches do valuable things with their donations. Many just use them to grow bigger churches and bother me by sending their mothers around to my door on Saturday mornings to discuss why I feel that the self-referencing nature of the Bible makes it a poor basis for a belief system.
How about the fact that for every new car that GM sells they are covering $2000 in "legacy costs" thanks to UAW retirees? That doesn't go away with the new wage structure implemented this year that finally drops wages to a more reasonable level.
Dude, if you want Americans to understand you the saying is "turkeys voting for Thanksgiving." Christmas is when we forgo eating to buy crap no one wants.
One usually gets better die-level integration than board level
Thanks Captain Obvious. Usually? Please provide a single concrete example of better board-level integration.
the fact that you could address and power just one chip rather than three would be a winning advantage on its own.
Maybe, but most likely it will only save a couple of chip selects. Also, don't you just love it when your WiFi drops out when your FM radio is damaged?
Ah, thanks. I thought I knew fully what esoteric meant, and it didn't really make sense in this context.
Thanks to Wikipedia apparently I can blame that on my "Western, English-speaking society" where "the term 'esotericism' is not necessarily used in the sense of mystical knowledge or practice."
They may pick up some stragglers that are totally dependent on PZT, but in European consumer electronics, components containing significant PZT have been practically useless since 2006. Europe is not what I would call a small market - as a result, components everywhere are designed to meet the same requirements, meaning these components have suffered from declining demand and/or been removed from company plans.
"Products that use the new compound could hit the market in about five years, according to the university, after large-scale testing takes place, industry awareness and demand happens, and a method for mass production is created."
Given that RoHS has already had a staggering impact on the electronics industry, I don't see "maybe 2013, if people figure out that they want this material, and if we can actually mass-produce it" as too reassuring. I'm sure not designing anything in the hopes that a PZT replacement will hit the market sometime next decade.
And if you look, see there's no beer, and still think there's a beer in the fridge, that's esotheric.
Honest question:
Does that joke originate the word esotheric?
m-w.com has no entry. Google suggests witchcraft, but there are few links of any value. The sentence (I guess) suggests blind & willfully ignorant faith, which does not quite specify witchcraft. Does the word have a history?
Who is the smartest guy around? The guy that goes to university and studies something like philosophy or psychology, or the one who gets a professional welding formation and earns 75k+ per year?
Think about it...
That reminds me of the time when I won the lottery and got accepted into Mensa.
Taking this seriously, as it probably will happen, what are the odds that Stevens' "gamble" was no gamble at all?
If the trial dragged on, he would have been convicted after the Bush "pardon window." He would quite likely be deceased by the time the next sympathetic president left office.
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http://www.apa.org/releases/resolutiononvideoviolence.pdf
I especially like the part where R-rated movies were included in the bill based on the conclusions of similar dubious studies. Oh, wait, they weren't. Wonder why that is?
More importantly, who says you can't get a physically smaller LCD screen than the iPhone with the same number of pixels.
There are several phones out now (HTC, OpenMoko) with a 2.8" 640x480 LCD. There is no reason an iPhone Nano couldn't sport a 480x320 2.2" display and have zero resolution-based issues.
My favorite commentary on carbon offsetting is Cheat Neutral
Brilliant way to make a statement. Yes, it is real. No, the creators don't keep the money. No, I'm not involved with the company/website.
You are so wrong about loss of jobs in TV and advertising. It is the beer industry that will suffer from this transition.
Seriously, what other money do you expect them to pool to buy a converter box when the whole system goes off-line?
I also predict that Spanish-language newspapers will see a large sales spike until everyone figures out why their TV no longer works.
Personally I'm glad the program is out of money. I would have ordered more coupons and let them expire had it been legal.
I have nothing against TV. I do have something against welfare for TV-viewers who can't or won't spend $40 for something to allow them to keep watching.
I ordered my allocation and promptly shredded them. I know they go back into the pool at some point but I'm hoping that time period will be long enough that the transition will have happened and the government won't have to reissue them.
If you can't afford a $40 converter box, turn the TV off and get a job.
I am sorry to have added to your overdone rebuke. I will now fix my viewing threshold.
Ooh. You should take more care to get that metaphor right. When "armor" is replaced by a word that encompasses "group of people," chink assumes a definition I'm sure you didn't intend.
Yeah I'm pretty sure O.J. holds the Biggest Athletic Asshole award now.
Let's be honest about this breakdown. The real divide is between secular and non-secular haves (vs. have-nots), they just happen to split fairly nicely along party lines.
Giving to your local church in my view is not the same as giving to a charity doing important work in the real world. Some churches do valuable things with their donations. Many just use them to grow bigger churches and bother me by sending their mothers around to my door on Saturday mornings to discuss why I feel that the self-referencing nature of the Bible makes it a poor basis for a belief system.
From this article: http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i04/04001101.htm "In 2000, religious people gave three and a half times as much as secular people."
When 10% of your paycheck is "donated" to secure your status in the afterlife, is it still charity?
How about the fact that for every new car that GM sells they are covering $2000 in "legacy costs" thanks to UAW retirees? That doesn't go away with the new wage structure implemented this year that finally drops wages to a more reasonable level.
See: http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4292379.html under #3
Dude, if you want Americans to understand you the saying is "turkeys voting for Thanksgiving." Christmas is when we forgo eating to buy crap no one wants.
Thanks Captain Obvious. Usually? Please provide a single concrete example of better board-level integration.
Maybe, but most likely it will only save a couple of chip selects. Also, don't you just love it when your WiFi drops out when your FM radio is damaged?
This is such an obvious blog spam by this guy that it is painful.
Both blog entries (one completely redundant to mask the referrals), are authored by "Moe Zilla" (painfully lame pseudonym, btw) whose "ultimate goal is to earn money online while writing about whatever I want," and whose writing style has the exact same defects as those in the summary.
Give up dude, your high school English teach was right: you suck.
I hate people who post wishing they had mod points, but I wish I had mod points. Funniest comment in a while.
Ah, thanks. I thought I knew fully what esoteric meant, and it didn't really make sense in this context.
Thanks to Wikipedia apparently I can blame that on my "Western, English-speaking society" where "the term 'esotericism' is not necessarily used in the sense of mystical knowledge or practice."
The difference is that if my toddler becomes developmentally disabled from licking ore, there is no manufacturer to sue.
Well, I could try, but I've heard he's got a Hell of a legal team.
They may pick up some stragglers that are totally dependent on PZT, but in European consumer electronics, components containing significant PZT have been practically useless since 2006. Europe is not what I would call a small market - as a result, components everywhere are designed to meet the same requirements, meaning these components have suffered from declining demand and/or been removed from company plans.
Given that RoHS has already had a staggering impact on the electronics industry, I don't see "maybe 2013, if people figure out that they want this material, and if we can actually mass-produce it" as too reassuring. I'm sure not designing anything in the hopes that a PZT replacement will hit the market sometime next decade.
Maybe if you're in ultrasonics this is big news?
Honest question:
Does that joke originate the word esotheric?
m-w.com has no entry. Google suggests witchcraft, but there are few links of any value. The sentence (I guess) suggests blind & willfully ignorant faith, which does not quite specify witchcraft. Does the word have a history?
That reminds me of the time when I won the lottery and got accepted into Mensa.
Money is not intelligence, idiot.
I knew those NASA guys were sandbagging.
Claiming to be carrying out "experiments" with "hypotheses," ha!
Offensive? To who, pumpkin artists everywhere?
What percentage of the population do you think that is? If we can't afford to offend pumpkin artists we have seriously gone off the deep end.
Whoa whoa whoa I have to stop you.
A?! demonic face?!
GTFO. Seriously. Try again tomorrow.
Taking this seriously, as it probably will happen, what are the odds that Stevens' "gamble" was no gamble at all?
If the trial dragged on, he would have been convicted after the Bush "pardon window." He would quite likely be deceased by the time the next sympathetic president left office.
And after that, a blowjob!
Er, wait, sorry, which president is it again?