I used to work on an ipod-like product.... getting the price of disks down is hard.... drive manaufacturers are playing in a commodity market already and they'd much rather sell a bigger drive with more profit than a lot of cheaper ones with less - there's a reason that small drives disapear from the market quickly... they can't afford to spend the factory space making them. We always thought $200 was sort of a magic number - that's the price a teenager might be able to wangle out of their parents for xmas.
Of course the other problem is that the people who want ipod-like devices are the ones with a lot of music - the ones with lots of CDs tend to be older and are more likely tobe able afford an iPod - the ones with lots of pirated stuff tend to be younger and can't - I suspect that iTunes helps create a sort of middle market.
Congress has not yat made a formal declaration of war - if there is no war, how can it ever be over?
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apparently a different one from you:-) putting power on the top is very common these days - reducing IR drop at worst case switching all across the die means getting as much metal between the pads and gates in the middle is really important - people often reserve upper layers for power and gnd because we don't care as much about wire length (now days often limited by via length) and want to reserve the shorter via runs for signals. Sure cross talk is an issue - but your layout tools ought to be handling this for you
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those are from the days when chips had 1 or 2 layers of metal on them. These days it's more normal to put power and ground planes on the top hiding all the pretty stuff underneath
of course the original pledge (without 'under god') was written at the turn of the century by a christian-socialist minister.... the original
"one nation, indivisible" was not liked in the South which is one reason why "under God" was snuck in to break it up
Despite the upthread comment about '14 yearolds on drugs' I have to point out that people under about 20 are pretty rare at BM - I bring my kids (including a 12 yr old) and finding other kids for them to hang out with is pretty hard (even with 30,000 people there) - partly it's because it is a very adult crowd (14 yr old kids really don't have the wherewithall to rent a truck, fill it with food and water and drive it 100s of miles from anywhere), and partly because it's the week before the labor day holiday weekend and in the US most kids (not mine) start school before or during that week
Burning Man is very much off the grid - but while there are enclaves of solar much of the power is generators (center camp has it's own actual grid) or by (mostly) doing without.
My camp typically runs a generator a few hours each day to charge batteries (we have art projects that need recharging during the day, and for our music) and to run soldering irons, other than that we do without.
In some sense it's probably more a test of individual self reliance since it's a relatively extreme environment and you have to bring everything you need to survive for a week - no in/out passes, no where to buy stuff etc etc.
Burning Man's lots of things, and very big - it's easy to label - "bunch of stoners" "wierdo hippies" "geeks at play" "artists" "crazy people in the desert" - of course it's all those things, and more - depends of what you go for and what appeals to you when you get there - it's so big there's something for everyone.
Probably the one thing it isn't is an organized concert or venue for selling stuff - there's an ongoing ethic of noncommercialism - the only things you can buy are ice and coffee (ice is practical, coffee is historical) - try and set your self up selling stuff (crafts, drugs, food, anything) chances are every other person who passes you will stop to lambast you raw... on the other hand there's also a culture of 'gifting' giving complete strangers stuff
for classical music this seems like a distraction (to you and those around you). On the other hand translation for opera seems like a natural for something like this - sort of personal subtitles....
So SGI ran Eric's program that makes MD5 sums from a source file - why not release those sums so people can do independant analysis?
(I can just imagine SCO's lawyers reving up... "your honor it's a derived work", "we own those numbers"...)
I don't play games, I don't download p2p and I don't use my ISP's mailservers. My DSL connection is there for what I want to do with it - not what you think I should use it for you pretentious twit.
I use it for mail, VPN access, my cable box's net connection, I run mail and web servers, mail lists for friends to help build community, web servers for local hobby clubs. My media center uses it to get program content downloads. I need it for access to the CVS servers of the open source projects I help code for.
I have 40 machines at home connected to the net through my 'tonka toy DSL'.
Don't you realise that this is what has made the internet such a great resource - it's a content neutral media - you and I can use it for whatever we want - limited by our imaginations
just because you're paying your ISP a lot of money for lots of IPs and bandwidth is no reason why I can't have a mail server on my DSL connection (or on the 56k frame relay I had before this, or on the 24/7 19.2k dialup I had before that, or on the 2.4k UUCP connection I put up in '85 before that).
All of those are great mail servers for my needs, I don't need more than 1 IP with a good nat, I used to have a class C but I gave it up when I realised I didn't need it I stopped having it routed.
We don't need the bandwidth you have, nor do we pay for it - but where do you get off trying to tell us what we can put in our packet headers just because how much money we have?
there's lots of reasons for that - often it's crappy encoding.
However there are legacy TV reasons for this - a combination between gamma correction and the particular color space used means that there are fewer numeric codes available for encoding dark images (near the bottom tip of the YCrCb color cube - gamma pushes them more to the top) than bright ones - this can mean that scenes in dark smokey rooms (think blade runner, any sort of noir etc) tend to be more pixelated than others.
Sadly I expect directors to come to understand these limitations and avoid these sorts of scenes leaving us all in a bright colorfull world - just like the way that 50s checked ties and houndstooth jackets went out of style once NTSC was introduced - (you never saw any of your public figures or role models wearing them therefore they must be unfashionable)
Biological nervous systems are electrochemical in nature. This is why EEG scanners work; they are able to pick up on EM activity generated by the brain. This being the case, electromagnetic signals MUST be able to also cause an effect. --To be very blunt, speakers and microphones are interchangeable.
Why I mostly agree with you in your scepticism of the safety of some heavy EM exposure - I have to call you on this one - just because some microphones work theame ways as some speakers (electic current causes magnetic field in coil causes magnet on cone to move causes sound waves vs sound waves move magnet on cone causes magnetic field induces current in coil) it doesn't mean that this is always true.
Just because cells cause chemical reactions at the surfaces of nerve cells cause electrical fields between them doesn't mean that electromagnetic fields cause those same chemical reactions to occur in reverse (the laws of thermodynamics are not on your side).
Certainly exposure to EM causes some effects - stand out in the sun an your head will get warm - but if it were truely a 2 way street with things working interchangeably then after half an hour in the sun your head would glow when you go into a dark room.
In reality entropy kicks in, most EM turns into heat, which does effect you, higher level sorts of things (inducing 'currents' in nerves that do more than override the SNR in the system for example) are going to be pretty unlikely (I'm not saying impossible, just unlikely)
yes almost this same thing happened to me when I moved to the US (1984) - I accidentally ended up with 2 head hunters without realizing it - then had them both send my resume to the same places putting me in a situation where at least one company couldn't make me an offer. The moral is - 1) avoid head hunters, 2) what ever you do never end up with more than one - if you do make sure they ask you beforem sending out resumes
that it puts the reporter in a difficult position - in order to challenge these potentially unconstitutional laws the reporter has to put themselves in harm's way - they can't just say 'courts please check and make sure these are OK before I hand over all the stuff I got in confidence' - instead they have to say 'no I wont', have a judge rule them in contempt and then appeal that ruling.... with a jail sentance hanging over their heads
? most english speaking countries use the metric system, I can only think of a couple that don't and only one that mostly doesn't... and even they did the metric currency thing years ago
I know it's a SP reference - but to me refering to SCO's 'Chewbacca Defense' still just makes me think of SCO periodically putting out a press release that is the moral equivalent of raising it's arms and going "wrooo-oow" rather than actually having a leg to stand on
well the chips are in the packaging... and if someone's going to tamper with the food they are probably going to use the same packaging anyway - I don't understand how this really helps.
Besides - if the legal protection is only for if the object (rfid) fails during a terrorist attack I don't see the point - surely it would only fail.... by working (and therefore giving a false positive)
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and they stop working .... hear that kids?
Of course the other problem is that the people who want ipod-like devices are the ones with a lot of music - the ones with lots of CDs tend to be older and are more likely tobe able afford an iPod - the ones with lots of pirated stuff tend to be younger and can't - I suspect that iTunes helps create a sort of middle market.
Congress has not yat made a formal declaration of war - if there is no war, how can it ever be over?
apparently a different one from you :-) putting power on the top is very common these days - reducing IR drop at worst case switching all across the die means getting as much metal between the pads and gates in the middle is really important - people often reserve upper layers for power and gnd because we don't care as much about wire length (now days often limited by via length) and want to reserve the shorter via runs for signals. Sure cross talk is an issue - but your layout tools ought to be handling this for you
those are from the days when chips had 1 or 2 layers of metal on them. These days it's more normal to put power and ground planes on the top hiding all the pretty stuff underneath
of course the original pledge (without 'under god') was written at the turn of the century by a christian-socialist minister .... the original
"one nation, indivisible" was not liked in the South which is one reason why "under God" was snuck in to break it up
I still have the thinnet I used for my household backbone in 1986 in daily use ....
you mean you didn't do what I did and keep a couple of (apple) keyboards around when it changed?
Despite the upthread comment about '14 yearolds on drugs' I have to point out that people under about 20 are pretty rare at BM - I bring my kids (including a 12 yr old) and finding other kids for them to hang out with is pretty hard (even with 30,000 people there) - partly it's because it is a very adult crowd (14 yr old kids really don't have the wherewithall to rent a truck, fill it with food and water and drive it 100s of miles from anywhere), and partly because it's the week before the labor day holiday weekend and in the US most kids (not mine) start school before or during that week
My camp typically runs a generator a few hours each day to charge batteries (we have art projects that need recharging during the day, and for our music) and to run soldering irons, other than that we do without.
In some sense it's probably more a test of individual self reliance since it's a relatively extreme environment and you have to bring everything you need to survive for a week - no in/out passes, no where to buy stuff etc etc.
Burning Man's lots of things, and very big - it's easy to label - "bunch of stoners" "wierdo hippies" "geeks at play" "artists" "crazy people in the desert" - of course it's all those things, and more - depends of what you go for and what appeals to you when you get there - it's so big there's something for everyone.
Probably the one thing it isn't is an organized concert or venue for selling stuff - there's an ongoing ethic of noncommercialism - the only things you can buy are ice and coffee (ice is practical, coffee is historical) - try and set your self up selling stuff (crafts, drugs, food, anything) chances are every other person who passes you will stop to lambast you raw ... on the other hand there's also a culture of 'gifting' giving complete strangers stuff
for classical music this seems like a distraction (to you and those around you). On the other hand translation for opera seems like a natural for something like this - sort of personal subtitles ....
Then I realized "I'm in the middle of the desert I don't want my email to find me", quickly checked slashdot and turned it off ....
So SGI ran Eric's program that makes MD5 sums from a source file - why not release those sums so people can do independant analysis? (I can just imagine SCO's lawyers reving up ... "your honor it's a derived work", "we own those numbers" ...)
I use it for mail, VPN access, my cable box's net connection, I run mail and web servers, mail lists for friends to help build community, web servers for local hobby clubs. My media center uses it to get program content downloads. I need it for access to the CVS servers of the open source projects I help code for.
I have 40 machines at home connected to the net through my 'tonka toy DSL'.
Don't you realise that this is what has made the internet such a great resource - it's a content neutral media - you and I can use it for whatever we want - limited by our imaginations
All of those are great mail servers for my needs, I don't need more than 1 IP with a good nat, I used to have a class C but I gave it up when I realised I didn't need it I stopped having it routed.
We don't need the bandwidth you have, nor do we pay for it - but where do you get off trying to tell us what we can put in our packet headers just because how much money we have?
like these
However there are legacy TV reasons for this - a combination between gamma correction and the particular color space used means that there are fewer numeric codes available for encoding dark images (near the bottom tip of the YCrCb color cube - gamma pushes them more to the top) than bright ones - this can mean that scenes in dark smokey rooms (think blade runner, any sort of noir etc) tend to be more pixelated than others.
Sadly I expect directors to come to understand these limitations and avoid these sorts of scenes leaving us all in a bright colorfull world - just like the way that 50s checked ties and houndstooth jackets went out of style once NTSC was introduced - (you never saw any of your public figures or role models wearing them therefore they must be unfashionable)
or rather hot air ballons - they have lots of that
Just because cells cause chemical reactions at the surfaces of nerve cells cause electrical fields between them doesn't mean that electromagnetic fields cause those same chemical reactions to occur in reverse (the laws of thermodynamics are not on your side).
Certainly exposure to EM causes some effects - stand out in the sun an your head will get warm - but if it were truely a 2 way street with things working interchangeably then after half an hour in the sun your head would glow when you go into a dark room.
In reality entropy kicks in, most EM turns into heat, which does effect you, higher level sorts of things (inducing 'currents' in nerves that do more than override the SNR in the system for example) are going to be pretty unlikely (I'm not saying impossible, just unlikely)
yes almost this same thing happened to me when I moved to the US (1984) - I accidentally ended up with 2 head hunters without realizing it - then had them both send my resume to the same places putting me in a situation where at least one company couldn't make me an offer. The moral is - 1) avoid head hunters, 2) what ever you do never end up with more than one - if you do make sure they ask you beforem sending out resumes
that it puts the reporter in a difficult position - in order to challenge these potentially unconstitutional laws the reporter has to put themselves in harm's way - they can't just say 'courts please check and make sure these are OK before I hand over all the stuff I got in confidence' - instead they have to say 'no I wont', have a judge rule them in contempt and then appeal that ruling .... with a jail sentance hanging over their heads
? most english speaking countries use the metric system, I can only think of a couple that don't and only one that mostly doesn't ... and even they did the metric currency thing years ago
forget that - I'm just waiting for them to sue someone who has their own music up somewhere - and getting an anti-trust suit back in their faces
I know it's a SP reference - but to me refering to SCO's 'Chewbacca Defense' still just makes me think of SCO periodically putting out a press release that is the moral equivalent of raising it's arms and going "wrooo-oow" rather than actually having a leg to stand on
Besides - if the legal protection is only for if the object (rfid) fails during a terrorist attack I don't see the point - surely it would only fail .... by working (and therefore giving a false positive)