you're both right - PAL and NTSC's colour encoding is similar (PAL reverses its phase every other line to help with the sort of interferance caused by your neighbour's electric drill). PAL does use more bandwidth and a slightly different color space and can render more saturated colors than NTSC (think bright eye grabbing adverts). PAL also has more pixels/screen (better resolution) but a lower frame rate (not so good for sports) - this has more to do with the underlying B/W TV standards they were built on top of though, which in turn were based on the local power line rates (in order to avoid AC humbars on those old B/W sets
it would be an MPEG2 encoded stream, not PAL nor NTSC... the picture size and/or frame rate may be different but with any reasonable system you should be able to do exactly the same thing in the US
yeah but the American version is sooo different from the US one. Just like Archie Bunker was a sad refelection of the so much more nasty Alf Garnet old man Sanford was a much milder version of old man Steptoe (it was a radio show before it was a TV one so the characters probably had to be drawn pretty starkly)
Besides 'three's company' was sadly probably the most successfull one... (despite using the exact same script for the first episode and ruining a whole bunch of jokes by renaming the lead male character [there was a whole bunch of farcical confusion about the new housemate called 'Robin' that everyone thought was a girl... in the US version they renamed him 'Jack' but left in the same jokes]).
you're right - it's a kind of bogus article/study "only 7% of companies with no linux experience plan of a linux project in the next year" is one of those meaningless statements that doesn't tell you much unless you know something like "what percentage of all companies have no linux experience?" if it's 1% this isn't news if it's 99% it is.
It's also a number one would expect to drop over time anyway - think of the early linux adopters as being 'low hanging fruit' over time all the people who know what they are doing will jump ship to linux resulting in an early surge of companies who move stuff to linux, over time all that are left are those who have no reason or inclination to move ('it works I'm not touching it' which is a perfectly valid engineering decision) so I'd expect the linux numbers to drop and that's a healthy thing.... depending of course on what that missing numb er really is
There does seem to be a clear advantage of reminding people of the sales tax every single time they buy stuff.
I think you have an ulterior motive - I think what you really mean is "it fits my political agenda to have people reminded about sales tax every time it's charged". Besides (in NZ anyway) it always says "GST included".
I run a small NZ corporation, I do bi-monthly GST reports, takes less than 10 minutes (I have my checkbook register spread sheet set up to do all the hard work) - take outgoings subject to GST, calc 12.5% take incomes subject to GST calc 12.5%, subtract the difference, fill in form write a check if required - in my case the govt SENDS me a check every other month (which I suspect is a bit like waving a red flag to the IRD saying "look over here audit me" but my accountant claims I'm doing the right thing).
US-style non-included sales tax is such a pain, the result is change change change... here I am at the moment on a biz trip to the US and after a week I positively clank with all the pennies and nickels I'm carrying around (I haven't yet got back into the habit of dumping it in tip jars whenever I can). And you try and explain to an 8 year old why he can't buy the thing he has his eye on can't be bought even though he has the price of it in his pocket....
now they do have an economic incentive to leave the bugs in.... I mean if they spent the money they are spending on this to get bugs found, and top get them out faster we'd all be better off... instead someone's decided this will be a profit center... soon enough they'll be putting bugs in and releasing viruses, all because it's good for the bottom line
those are two of the most seriously disturbing smiles I've ever seen.... I bet it was the only photo they got that in which they both were vaguely smiling and had to run with it
But you're assuming I live in the US, have the same range of vehicles available to me, gas isn't a 100% imported product and I don't care about other stuff like the amount of crap my car spews in the air.
Well if we're going there.... my hybrid can do that too, just pop in the EVmode switch and drive down town (I live on top of a big hill), by the time I get there the battery's charged and I haven't used a drop of gas.... sort of negative MPG if you like since I get to use the energy I've generated later
Well if you plug it in to top up the battery (and add an extra one) '100mpg' doesn't really mean anything, unless at the end of the test the battery is in the same state as you started off and you haven't plugged it in. Most people don't realize that a hybrid like a Prius (I have one) normally runs with the battery half full and shunts power into and out of it to keep the motor running at it's most efficient, or to recover power when breaking or going down hill. Driving on the open road you see it alternately switching between charging the battery and running off of it (there's a transaxle so the powertrain can be driven by both the gas motor and the battery at the same time).
For example I live at the top of a hill, the car starts with a 1/2 full battery, when I go down town it's full by the time I get there, I can drive around for 15-20 minutes on the flat without the gas motor running and the battery gets charged back to 1/2 full on the way back up home (to be fair I have the non-US model with the EV-only switch, if I want I can pop that in and drive down town with the gas motor turned off, which you can't do in the US).
If you want to measure something I think mp$ (miles per $), mpJ (miles per Joule) or ppm (polution per mile) are probably more usefull numbers if you are choosing to buy a car measurements
with GBW in power there will be another oil shock - that's why I bought a Prius (and I had no waiting and paid under MSRP too) - he has his eyes on Iran, I have mine on my pocket book
but a gallon of gas has less energy than a gallon of diesel by something like 20% so quoting mpg (or km/l) doesn't mean much unless you take that in to account
well given that the Prius doesn't have a traditional key, just a key-fob that identofies you and an 'on' button it is a lot like rebooting a PC - to be fair they probably didn't push 'reset' (there isn't one) just turned it off then on again
I love mine.... best part is the car computer has easter eggs - now you can pull the 'engine codes' yourself sitting in the driver's seat and call them in to the dealer....
well that's partly the point of this Sipura device (or the Digium iaxpy) - the device you want is one of these.... and a common ethernet router... otherwise part of the point of VOIP is lost.... now all I want is that $99 VOIP/WIFI phone for the house
I don't know - is it outlandish? did he take the initiative? how would you measure it? personally I'd say someone in congress 'took the initiative' in an area if they sponsored more bills in that area than the average congressman.
So your polemic says "it's a bit of an outlandish statement any way you read it" - so as a strawman thats how I read it - so prove your statement correct, the Webby people seem to claim that he did sponsor pro-internet bills - did he sponsor more than the average? (or are you just letting your puffed up political rhetoric get ahead of checking the facts)
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except that some stuff doesn't quite compile correctly yet... hold off on building KDE with it for a while
It's their head lawyer (clue the sharks with lasers comments) - which is in itself quite scary - think about what he does all day and why he might care - I suggest we send a couple of IBMs 'Nazagul' along just make sure we know what's really up
I think what s/he's saying is that with PCP your prof only has to ask you a few random questions so see if you really know the stuff rather than give you lots of exams:-)
and I can't get rid of it - I set it up when I was living in Oakland CA, but now I'm in New Zealand they refuse to get rid of it.... grrr.... I know enough not to actually call it but 911 is something serious and in my case I ought to be able to turn it off
I've made a living over the past 30 years doing: vms/unix/linux kernel hacking, chip logic design, computer architecture, driver design, compiler writing, embedded systems programming, network protocol engineering....
It's great, each job I get to do something different and interesting, I get paid really well, I have skills that span enough disciplines that I can do things that most other people can't..
On the other hand - long term I found VLSI got boring - it's mostly just programming at a different level (low level and very parallel - spend a few years working there and thinking about kernel driver writing becomes pretty easy, all the timing holes just jump out at you). But chip design gets boring - it's mostly all about being perfect and the amount of truly creative work is quite low - I found myself spending a month a year doing design and 11 making timing and doing QA (which is not to say that software doesn't need QA - just that often we can fix stuff later)
Back during the start of the never-ending 'Net vs. Scientology online war the Scientology lawyers went after Keith Henson, they had him in a deposition
one of the things was that they were trying to find out who was running the ftp server at 127.0.0.1 - seems Keith had joked on usenet about how many of scientology's secrets (probably the space alien stuff) were there, the scientologists had looked there and sure enough they were - Mr Henson was recorded by the court reporter as 'laughing hysterically'
Of course this is the same deposition where they tried to find out the real name of that evil 'majordomo' who was running all those anti-scientology mailing lists
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you're both right - PAL and NTSC's colour encoding is similar (PAL reverses its phase every other line to help with the sort of interferance caused by your neighbour's electric drill). PAL does use more bandwidth and a slightly different color space and can render more saturated colors than NTSC (think bright eye grabbing adverts). PAL also has more pixels/screen (better resolution) but a lower frame rate (not so good for sports) - this has more to do with the underlying B/W TV standards they were built on top of though, which in turn were based on the local power line rates (in order to avoid AC humbars on those old B/W sets
it would be an MPEG2 encoded stream, not PAL nor NTSC ... the picture size and/or frame rate may be different but with any reasonable system you should be able to do exactly the same thing in the US
Besides 'three's company' was sadly probably the most successfull one ... (despite using the exact same script for the first episode and ruining a whole bunch of jokes by renaming the lead male character [there was a whole bunch of farcical confusion about the new housemate called 'Robin' that everyone thought was a girl ... in the US version they renamed him 'Jack' but left in the same jokes]).
It's also a number one would expect to drop over time anyway - think of the early linux adopters as being 'low hanging fruit' over time all the people who know what they are doing will jump ship to linux resulting in an early surge of companies who move stuff to linux, over time all that are left are those who have no reason or inclination to move ('it works I'm not touching it' which is a perfectly valid engineering decision) so I'd expect the linux numbers to drop and that's a healthy thing .... depending of course on what that missing numb er really is
for those of us in the southern hemisphere ..... hopefully Google will be having two 'summers of code' this year to encourage all comers ....
on the contrary, Bush is convinced there is .... and he's gonna make sure that damned sleigh gets searched by the bozos at TSA each and every time
I think you have an ulterior motive - I think what you really mean is "it fits my political agenda to have people reminded about sales tax every time it's charged". Besides (in NZ anyway) it always says "GST included".
I run a small NZ corporation, I do bi-monthly GST reports, takes less than 10 minutes (I have my checkbook register spread sheet set up to do all the hard work) - take outgoings subject to GST, calc 12.5% take incomes subject to GST calc 12.5%, subtract the difference, fill in form write a check if required - in my case the govt SENDS me a check every other month (which I suspect is a bit like waving a red flag to the IRD saying "look over here audit me" but my accountant claims I'm doing the right thing).
US-style non-included sales tax is such a pain, the result is change change change ... here I am at the moment on a biz trip to the US and after a week I positively clank with all the pennies and nickels I'm carrying around (I haven't yet got back into the habit of dumping it in tip jars whenever I can). And you try and explain to an 8 year old why he can't buy the thing he has his eye on can't be bought even though he has the price of it in his pocket ....
now they do have an economic incentive to leave the bugs in .... I mean if they spent the money they are spending on this to get bugs found, and top get them out faster we'd all be better off ... instead someone's decided this will be a profit center ... soon enough they'll be putting bugs in and releasing viruses, all because it's good for the bottom line
those are two of the most seriously disturbing smiles I've ever seen .... I bet it was the only photo they got that in which they both were vaguely smiling and had to run with it
But you're assuming I live in the US, have the same range of vehicles available to me, gas isn't a 100% imported product and I don't care about other stuff like the amount of crap my car spews in the air.
well yeah - but I am comparing it with someone who just (virtually) pushed his over a cliff
Well if we're going there .... my hybrid can do that too, just pop in the EVmode switch and drive down town (I live on top of a big hill), by the time I get there the battery's charged and I haven't used a drop of gas .... sort of negative MPG if you like since I get to use the energy I've generated later
For example I live at the top of a hill, the car starts with a 1/2 full battery, when I go down town it's full by the time I get there, I can drive around for 15-20 minutes on the flat without the gas motor running and the battery gets charged back to 1/2 full on the way back up home (to be fair I have the non-US model with the EV-only switch, if I want I can pop that in and drive down town with the gas motor turned off, which you can't do in the US).
If you want to measure something I think mp$ (miles per $), mpJ (miles per Joule) or ppm (polution per mile) are probably more usefull numbers if you are choosing to buy a car measurements
with GBW in power there will be another oil shock - that's why I bought a Prius (and I had no waiting and paid under MSRP too) - he has his eyes on Iran, I have mine on my pocket book
but a gallon of gas has less energy than a gallon of diesel by something like 20% so quoting mpg (or km/l) doesn't mean much unless you take that in to account
well given that the Prius doesn't have a traditional key, just a key-fob that identofies you and an 'on' button it is a lot like rebooting a PC - to be fair they probably didn't push 'reset' (there isn't one) just turned it off then on again
I love mine .... best part is the car computer has easter eggs - now you can pull the 'engine codes' yourself sitting in the driver's seat and call them in to the dealer ....
well that's partly the point of this Sipura device (or the Digium iaxpy) - the device you want is one of these .... and a common ethernet router ... otherwise part of the point of VOIP is lost .... now all I want is that $99 VOIP/WIFI phone for the house
So your polemic says "it's a bit of an outlandish statement any way you read it" - so as a strawman thats how I read it - so prove your statement correct, the Webby people seem to claim that he did sponsor pro-internet bills - did he sponsor more than the average? (or are you just letting your puffed up political rhetoric get ahead of checking the facts)
except that some stuff doesn't quite compile correctly yet ... hold off on building KDE with it for a while
It's their head lawyer (clue the sharks with lasers comments) - which is in itself quite scary - think about what he does all day and why he might care - I suggest we send a couple of IBMs 'Nazagul' along just make sure we know what's really up
I think what s/he's saying is that with PCP your prof only has to ask you a few random questions so see if you really know the stuff rather than give you lots of exams :-)
and I can't get rid of it - I set it up when I was living in Oakland CA, but now I'm in New Zealand they refuse to get rid of it .... grrr .... I know enough not to actually call it but 911 is something serious and in my case I ought to be able to turn it off
It's great, each job I get to do something different and interesting, I get paid really well, I have skills that span enough disciplines that I can do things that most other people can't ..
On the other hand - long term I found VLSI got boring - it's mostly just programming at a different level (low level and very parallel - spend a few years working there and thinking about kernel driver writing becomes pretty easy, all the timing holes just jump out at you). But chip design gets boring - it's mostly all about being perfect and the amount of truly creative work is quite low - I found myself spending a month a year doing design and 11 making timing and doing QA (which is not to say that software doesn't need QA - just that often we can fix stuff later)
Of course this is the same deposition where they tried to find out the real name of that evil 'majordomo' who was running all those anti-scientology mailing lists