I fly across the pacific a few times every year and they always warn people to take it easy and be patient with the IFE "or it will crash" - which is certainly true - without trying I managed to spend 10 hours staring at a Windows CE "some thing bad happened" dialog box.... couldn't even turn the damn thing off when I wanted to sleep
well part of my comment was to people upthread pointing out the falacy in the original argument that music should be more expensive because CDs used to cost $13-14, when really a more appropriate comparison is the price of LPs back then less the cost differential between the manufacture/distribution of a CD vs an LP (after all the novelty pricing has worn off) - and then of course compare it with the cost of the same tracks from iTunes (less the costs or manufacture/distribution which are of course trivial).
But back to the other point it's more than supply and demand it's competition - if I want to buy a lightbulb I can go to the store and find 6 kinds of 100 watt bulbs and choose to buy the cheapest - I can't do that with the latest RS album (I chose that example because I suspect there will always be one) I can only buy one - if it's a popular album the record company can arbitrarily raise the price by $2-3 and people who want to listen to the RS will have to pay it - no competition there - sure they can go an buy an NSync album instead but you know it's not the same
Classical music is a great example - Mozart's been out of copyright a while now and you can go to the store and choose between different versions of his pieces (but again you are still limited is you want to choose a particular performer)
My point is that copyright changes the music market into something that isn't a free market in the normal sense and as such I think that consumers need some extra protection against the cartels that end up being formed
could be something like an inverter to drive the tube in the backlight.... more likely though it's not the laptop per-se that's the problem but the powerbrick - a real monster for those big laptops - I had my 9100's replaced a few months back, time to break out the multimeter....
It costs less to manufacture a CD than it used to to make an LP... so if that were true then CDs would cost LESS (inflation adjusted) than LPs did back then.
The problem of course is that there's no real competition in the music publishing industry - you don't see competing companies trying to undersell each other with the latest say Rolling Stones CD - copyright laws essentially create monopolies
part of the issue here is that Windows puts more stuff in the kernel (bad IMHO, harder to verify security) and, more importantly Windows kernel routines make system calls themselves while in the Linux world the system call interface is largely a one-way boundary making it easier to verify (signals are an example of something that sort of breaks the 1-way thing)
some of that seems that way, others seem to have done the "the best way to deal with speech you don't like is not censorship but more speech" thing by errecting their own signs - I don't think you should tar them all with the same brush
Of course if the LePennists show up and set up shop and 100,000 other people come along and erect their own signs is it democracy and free speech or censorship? I tend to fall on the democracy/more speech is better than less world view
only because they are used to them - a 2x4 (4x2 in the rest of the world before the switched to metric) simply becomes a 5x10, and as because as others have pointed out a dressed 2x4 is not actually 2x4 it doesn't matter - the thing is that 2.5cm is about 1% different from 2.54cm and compared to the dressing it's trivial.
In fact if you're a carpenter 1mm is roughly the width of a saw cut - doing measurements in mm is actually very very usefull, the alternative is 1/16 of an inch and doing math in those in your head (quick what's 3/8+5/16+1/4?, whats 6+5+4?)
the thing about going metric is that it takes time, doesn't happen overnight, takes years - not just to learn the names of the units and how to work with them - that's easy (and the whole point) but relearning all that learned experience about what that means - how do I order meat? drive? tell if it's warm? cook? (but try and use an american recipe in another country without realising that even in imperial units american 'cops' and 'pints' are different from everywhere else - these problems even occur within imperial units)
What you do need to learn is some simple rules to live by through the conversion and then let go, here's my list:
1m ~= 3ft (good enough for judging distances)
5cm ~= 2inches (good for just about everything)
5km ~= 3miles (50kph ~= 30mph etc)
8km ~= 5miles (80kph ~= 50mph)
10km ~= 6miles (100kph ~= 60mph)
1kg ~= 2lbs (good enough to get enough meat for dinner)
1l ~= 2pints (and to buy milk)
You get the idea - you seldom need to buy exactly a pound of something, 1/2 a kilo will do for most uses
as I read the patent it's simply a patent for list elements that are in more than one list at the same time - prior art up the wazoo of course (Unix V6 from the late '70s for a start)
Sadly this will push the change back past halloween leaving the kids wandering the streets in the light and stealing a lot of the magic of the celebration
If I didn't have my tinfoil hat on I'd think it was part of a plan from the religious right to do away with it
it's because traditionally people heated only 2 rooms in their houses in the winter and th houses were built with this in mind (living room and kitchen). We have a 100 year old house in Dunedin that's been mostly retrofitted with insulation (just finished the last floor a few weeks ago) some of the tall ceilings have been lowered too which helps a lot - we have US-style central heating (gas) and a wood fire which keeps us very toasty in the winter
don't listen to him - moved my family back to NZ after 20 years in silicon valley - and we're very glad we did. Mind you it was easier since I'm a kiwi - if you are interested check out the NZ consulate web site they have a quick online form you can fill out to see if you score enough to get in - do it sooner rather than later as we have a public health system that assumes you pay in (ie taxes) when you're young and well to pay for when you're old and not so well - just like an insurance scheme - the points system gets skewed against people as they get older so you pay your way and don't screw up the demographics.
On the other hand if you compare everything (state/fed taxes, social security, cadi/acc sales taxes/gst etc) I figure I'm paying 8-10% less tax in NZ than in California (I'm in the top brackets in both places) - which is pretty amazing considring in the US my boss pays for my medical ahd here I do (thru my taxes) - hooray for a small army
Politics in NZ is definitely a contact sport - but it happens out in public where everyone can see in a way that one could only dream of in the US
"911 changed everything".... hmmm.... "911 changed everything".... nope nothing happens..... are you sure it works?
seems like the same old world, not much bravery around, lots of jingoism and ranting though....
As others have pointed out if you let your paranoia get to you to the point where you give up your day to day life the terrorists have won. My day to day life has involved building rockets for fun for 15 years now, I know full well how hard it is build one into a weapon, or even to build one from scratch at all.... I mean what does Hamas use for fuel for it's rockets, not AP/rubber like we use, they use sugar.... are you gonna ban that too?
Doesn't that mean it's NOT running as administrator? if it gets hacked they don't get admin access to the account.... why that's almost like.... linux. All they need to add now is a chroot jail and they'd be cooking....
of course is that it's vaporware enough that they only have a rendered image, not a photo of the real-thing....
people have been building off-loading cards for TCP for years (I remember the first round of them back in the mid 80s), as a rule they don't work that well - better to put the smarts closer to the apps
Now of course if you could 'lower ping times' by rewriting game's packets on the fly to look as if you had faster latency...... (wait isn't that sort of what they are claiming - the ability to dial in one's ping times....)
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I fly across the pacific a few times every year and they always warn people to take it easy and be patient with the IFE "or it will crash" - which is certainly true - without trying I managed to spend 10 hours staring at a Windows CE "some thing bad happened" dialog box .... couldn't even turn the damn thing off when I wanted to sleep
But back to the other point it's more than supply and demand it's competition - if I want to buy a lightbulb I can go to the store and find 6 kinds of 100 watt bulbs and choose to buy the cheapest - I can't do that with the latest RS album (I chose that example because I suspect there will always be one) I can only buy one - if it's a popular album the record company can arbitrarily raise the price by $2-3 and people who want to listen to the RS will have to pay it - no competition there - sure they can go an buy an NSync album instead but you know it's not the same
Classical music is a great example - Mozart's been out of copyright a while now and you can go to the store and choose between different versions of his pieces (but again you are still limited is you want to choose a particular performer)
My point is that copyright changes the music market into something that isn't a free market in the normal sense and as such I think that consumers need some extra protection against the cartels that end up being formed
could be something like an inverter to drive the tube in the backlight .... more likely though it's not the laptop per-se that's the problem but the powerbrick - a real monster for those big laptops - I had my 9100's replaced a few months back, time to break out the multimeter ....
The problem of course is that there's no real competition in the music publishing industry - you don't see competing companies trying to undersell each other with the latest say Rolling Stones CD - copyright laws essentially create monopolies
part of the issue here is that Windows puts more stuff in the kernel (bad IMHO, harder to verify security) and, more importantly Windows kernel routines make system calls themselves while in the Linux world the system call interface is largely a one-way boundary making it easier to verify (signals are an example of something that sort of breaks the 1-way thing)
Of course if the LePennists show up and set up shop and 100,000 other people come along and erect their own signs is it democracy and free speech or censorship? I tend to fall on the democracy/more speech is better than less world view
It's a Stephenson novel ... it isn't going to end at all
In fact if you're a carpenter 1mm is roughly the width of a saw cut - doing measurements in mm is actually very very usefull, the alternative is 1/16 of an inch and doing math in those in your head (quick what's 3/8+5/16+1/4?, whats 6+5+4?)
the thing about going metric is that it takes time, doesn't happen overnight, takes years - not just to learn the names of the units and how to work with them - that's easy (and the whole point) but relearning all that learned experience about what that means - how do I order meat? drive? tell if it's warm? cook? (but try and use an american recipe in another country without realising that even in imperial units american 'cops' and 'pints' are different from everywhere else - these problems even occur within imperial units)
What you do need to learn is some simple rules to live by through the conversion and then let go, here's my list:
- 1m ~= 3ft (good enough for judging distances)
- 5cm ~= 2inches (good for just about everything)
- 5km ~= 3miles (50kph ~= 30mph etc)
- 8km ~= 5miles (80kph ~= 50mph)
- 10km ~= 6miles (100kph ~= 60mph)
- 1kg ~= 2lbs (good enough to get enough meat for dinner)
- 1l ~= 2pints (and to buy milk)
You get the idea - you seldom need to buy exactly a pound of something, 1/2 a kilo will do for most useslike this?
It also gives the UV for my home here in NZ as '2' while the local TV n ews has been at '11' all week (ozone hole at the height of the summer evil)
as I read the patent it's simply a patent for list elements that are in more than one list at the same time - prior art up the wazoo of course (Unix V6 from the late '70s for a start)
If I didn't have my tinfoil hat on I'd think it was part of a plan from the religious right to do away with it
it's because traditionally people heated only 2 rooms in their houses in the winter and th houses were built with this in mind (living room and kitchen). We have a 100 year old house in Dunedin that's been mostly retrofitted with insulation (just finished the last floor a few weeks ago) some of the tall ceilings have been lowered too which helps a lot - we have US-style central heating (gas) and a wood fire which keeps us very toasty in the winter
On the other hand if you compare everything (state/fed taxes, social security, cadi/acc sales taxes/gst etc) I figure I'm paying 8-10% less tax in NZ than in California (I'm in the top brackets in both places) - which is pretty amazing considring in the US my boss pays for my medical ahd here I do (thru my taxes) - hooray for a small army
Politics in NZ is definitely a contact sport - but it happens out in public where everyone can see in a way that one could only dream of in the US
how many unresolved bugs in your bug database?
tell it to Al Capone
seems like the same old world, not much bravery around, lots of jingoism and ranting though ....
As others have pointed out if you let your paranoia get to you to the point where you give up your day to day life the terrorists have won. My day to day life has involved building rockets for fun for 15 years now, I know full well how hard it is build one into a weapon, or even to build one from scratch at all .... I mean what does Hamas use for fuel for it's rockets, not AP/rubber like we use, they use sugar .... are you gonna ban that too?
Doesn't that mean it's NOT running as administrator? if it gets hacked they don't get admin access to the account .... why that's almost like .... linux. All they need to add now is a chroot jail and they'd be cooking ....
this cartoon was in the local (NZ) paper last week
people have been building off-loading cards for TCP for years (I remember the first round of them back in the mid 80s), as a rule they don't work that well - better to put the smarts closer to the apps
Now of course if you could 'lower ping times' by rewriting game's packets on the fly to look as if you had faster latency ...... (wait isn't that sort of what they are claiming - the ability to dial in one's ping times ....)
they are so going to find that the internet randomly gets about 10% webcam content of their house ....
to pack one end of the fiber in her bags ....
more likely you're thinking of Eta Carinae which is also expected to "go any time" (in stellar timescales) and has been playing up recently
at least for cable systems - SCTE18 is the standard you want
in my country we use transistors ....