It's been done. Look at the Carrier Inifinty/Bryant Evolution systems. 4 wire communicating system. There are other communicating systems from Trane and various other manufactures as well, but they all use different protocols, which is a problem. Perhaps someday they'll standardize but for now you'll need a matched system from one company.
As someone who just moved from Austin to the NYC area last year I thought I might give you some insight as to what those numbers mean. While people do also get paid more to live I those areas, they also take a lower relative pay to live in those areas. People are willing to take 1.5x lower salary to live where there are more oppurtunities, jobs and otherwise. I wouldn't move back to Austin for the same pay I get in the northeast, though I like it up here and not everyone does. But the numbers show more people prefer it.
Right, because city roads aren't funded out of general funds. Oh wait, they are. The illusion that roads are paid for by gas tax is just that, an illusion. The fact is that all forms of transit are subsidized.
While population density is a problem, it is the result of effective mass transit, not the cause. How can you have density with giant parking lots everywhere?
You are also missing this, without which the current drop would look a lot more like the crash in 29, possibly worse. Had the Federal Reserve not propped up all the failing banks they would all have most likely declared bankruptcy within a month. Where do you think the dow would be had that happened?
Here is a list of DJIA companies that would now likely be bankrupt had the government not interviened:BOA,Citigroup,GM,JPMorgan Chase
That is over 10% of the companies in the DJIA that would now be bankrupt, in the span of a few months.
The difference between now and 1929 is not the scale of the drop, but the magnitude of the governments intervention in the market.
Why should the government be in the business of subsidizing you to go see your family 100 miles away? You think the 47 cents of gas tax you pay somehow can actually cover the increasing cost of road construction and maintenance while cars are becoming more efficient? The fact is the gas tax needs to be dramatically increased, but it is political suicide to do that in America, so we get toll roads instead.
If you don't want toll roads I suggest you go lobby your congress person for a higher gas tax.
I find this logic that somehow mass transit won't work in American cities because they are too spread out to be hilarious. Have you ever thought about why they are so spread out? It is because they don't have decent mass transit and America massively subsidizes car transportation. Building decent mass transit systems leads to population density, not the other way around.
If we spent the amount of money on mass transit that we spend on road construction, traffic cops, etc, cities would be a lot denser, but we don't so we have suburban sprawl. Cities used to be a lot denser, but then there was the Great American Streetcar Scandal and now Americans are left with crappy bus service.
Maybe you should learn a little about how TCP congestion control works. TCP will notice lost packets and drop off, causing bandwidth to go down because it thinks the pipe is full. By your logic every TCP session would incessantly hammer your NIC and saturate everything with no regard for actual available bandwidth. That's not how things work.
You can shape ingress traffic. ..I do it on my OpenWRT router. More specifically you can drop TCP packets but not drop UDP packets, which will cause TCP rates to go down, leaving more room for UDP, which is what VoIP uses.
. ..because, quite rightly, everyone expects every single phone everywhere should be able to call 911 at any time.
Except. ..that they don't. Or was that sarcasm? It should be, unless "everywhere" somehow means "The USA"
It's quite amusing getting woken up at 7am local time because my sister who I'm visiting hasn't checked the checkbox on Vonage's site acknowledging that she doesn't have E911. Why is this amusing, and why are they calling at 7am? My sister lives in Japan.
I've been a customer of Vonage since their first year of operation, and I have been Very well informed of the fact that I don't have E911. The state it numerous times on their website, and again when you sign up. Why I have to go check yet another checkbox acknowledging that fact is beyond me.
That keyboard is the same as the famous IBM Model M, which I bought used from Microcenter for $3. Yes, three dollars. As you pointed out they last for decades. Just run it through the dishwasher for a quick clean and it's good as new. IBM made millions of them, and you can find them for fairly cheap, no need to spend $50+ on them.
As a developer looking for a job in this very area (I live in Richardson) who can't find anyone to hire me, I thought I'd give a counterpoint example. As many other posters have pointed out, the loss of jobs is for all jobs, not just experienced positions. As a recent graduate with a good GPA and internship experience whose been programming in various languages since I was 13, I still don't find many entry level positions to apply to. It seems the only companies looking for entry level workers are defense contractors.
While as a startup I realize you may not want entry level programmers, as this comment pointed out, the reason you can't find people with 3 years of recent experience may be because so few companies seem willing to hire people to give them 3 years of experience.
Apple isn't interested in Cell. While cell can provide a lot of FLOPS, code has to be written for it the SPU's, and the actual PPC core of cell is vastly slower then the 970. The core of the cell was basically stripped down to allow it to run at a high frequency to not slow the SPU's down. This would kill performance on OS X and anything not specifically written for cell. And to correct the other poster, the cell does include Altivec, or more specifically a VMX unit as its known on IBM's chips. Altivec is Motorola's (now Freescale) term for it.
My guess is that its only redundant in that it will be made in all chips but may not be working in all the chips. It is a monstrously complex chip, and just as Ati has sold graphics chips with only 4 of the pipelines enabled (the 9500) as a way to sell chips that don't have all 8 pipelines working, Sony is apparently expecting to get a fair amount of chips with only 7 working SPE's. But this is just my guess.
The Iridium network covers the entire globe. Coverage map would look like this. I'm not sure where you got your coverage map from, Iridium's site doesn't even display a map on their site that I could find. But the Iridium satellites are not in geocentric orbit, they contiunally sweep across the globe, so they in effect have to cover the entire globe or there would be a moving non coverage area.
It's supposed to mean that I've been making mp3's since probably before you had pubes. Ah yes, insult my age. What are you, 12? how is this relevant?
Ha. I'm sorry that you consider being presented with information that contradicts your previously held (and ill-informed) views to be "whining". If you have such a low tolerance for new information I suggest you discontinue your participation in this thread.
Ahh, I see. There seems to have been a misunderstanding. It is you who is "ill-informed" and have a low tolerance for new information. I never made any claims about "signal chains." If you use LAME, what parameters are you using?
Why don't you take your great ears over to hydrogen audio, because if you can actually tell every mp3 from the source material using a modern version of lame in an ABX test then they would like to hear from you. Sitting here talking down to me isn't going to do anyone any good. Though I find it amusing so feel free to continue if you want. The simple fact is, if you can hear the difference between every mp3 and the source, YOU are encoding them wrong.
wow where to start with this post. the first encoder I used was Xing. So believe me when I say I'm not hearing poorly made mp3's.
Not quite sure what that is supposed to mean considering Xing is widely regarded to be the worst encoder. Considering that Xing is the only encoder you mention, I'm going to believe you are listening to poorly made mp3s.
I don't suppose you've got a link for this "9 out of 10" business? There is a ton of them over at hydrogenaudio. They have a whole forum dedicated to doing ABX tests on lossy codecs.
Midrange Grado headphones are hardly "midrange listening equipment." This whole issue has been discusssed to death at hydrogenaudio and the old r3mix forums. Even people with golden ears can't tell the difference between lame encoded samples at 256 and the original source except on a few tricky samples which you can find on the lame page. However those samples aren't representative of most. Decently encoded(such as lame alt-preset standard) mp3's are indistinguishable from the original source on about 99.9% of frames. You whining about crappy mp3s and saying you can hear the difference is meaningless when the only codec you even mention is xing.
nice troll. Why don't you try reading the linked page nextime? Thats exactly what they're doing.
From the FA. Airborne Modeling
Generation of 3D models of rooftops and terrain shape from airborne laser scans and photos.
Processing airborne laser scans
Reconstructing surface geometry
Texture mapping
Silver is 60 bucks. Bronze is what you get retail and it is now 50 bucks. Apparently they lowered the pricing by 5. Online purchase only gets you more if you pay more.
Furthermore, a cooler temperature will appear redder, not bluer.
6500k is "warmer" than 9000k, despite being a lower number. And 6500k is redder than 9000k. Thats why its called "warmer." Color temperatures and warmth have nothing to do with the number and everything to do with how they look.
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It's been done. Look at the Carrier Inifinty/Bryant Evolution systems. 4 wire communicating system. There are other communicating systems from Trane and various other manufactures as well, but they all use different protocols, which is a problem. Perhaps someday they'll standardize but for now you'll need a matched system from one company.
As someone who just moved from Austin to the NYC area last year I thought I might give you some insight as to what those numbers mean. While people do also get paid more to live I those areas, they also take a lower relative pay to live in those areas. People are willing to take 1.5x lower salary to live where there are more oppurtunities, jobs and otherwise. I wouldn't move back to Austin for the same pay I get in the northeast, though I like it up here and not everyone does. But the numbers show more people prefer it.
Well they do have a website for it... http://unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com/
Right, because city roads aren't funded out of general funds. Oh wait, they are. The illusion that roads are paid for by gas tax is just that, an illusion. The fact is that all forms of transit are subsidized.
While population density is a problem, it is the result of effective mass transit, not the cause. How can you have density with giant parking lots everywhere?
You are also missing this, without which the current drop would look a lot more like the crash in 29, possibly worse. Had the Federal Reserve not propped up all the failing banks they would all have most likely declared bankruptcy within a month. Where do you think the dow would be had that happened?
Here is a list of DJIA companies that would now likely be bankrupt had the government not interviened:BOA,Citigroup,GM,JPMorgan Chase
That is over 10% of the companies in the DJIA that would now be bankrupt, in the span of a few months.
The difference between now and 1929 is not the scale of the drop, but the magnitude of the governments intervention in the market.
Why should the government be in the business of subsidizing you to go see your family 100 miles away? You think the 47 cents of gas tax you pay somehow can actually cover the increasing cost of road construction and maintenance while cars are becoming more efficient? The fact is the gas tax needs to be dramatically increased, but it is political suicide to do that in America, so we get toll roads instead.
If you don't want toll roads I suggest you go lobby your congress person for a higher gas tax.
I find this logic that somehow mass transit won't work in American cities because they are too spread out to be hilarious. Have you ever thought about why they are so spread out? It is because they don't have decent mass transit and America massively subsidizes car transportation. Building decent mass transit systems leads to population density, not the other way around.
If we spent the amount of money on mass transit that we spend on road construction, traffic cops, etc, cities would be a lot denser, but we don't so we have suburban sprawl. Cities used to be a lot denser, but then there was the Great American Streetcar Scandal and now Americans are left with crappy bus service.
Maybe you should learn a little about how TCP congestion control works. TCP will notice lost packets and drop off, causing bandwidth to go down because it thinks the pipe is full. By your logic every TCP session would incessantly hammer your NIC and saturate everything with no regard for actual available bandwidth. That's not how things work.
You can shape ingress traffic. . .I do it on my OpenWRT router. More specifically you can drop TCP packets but not drop UDP packets, which will cause TCP rates to go down, leaving more room for UDP, which is what VoIP uses.
Why not get a Nokia 7710 then?
Except. . .that they don't. Or was that sarcasm? It should be, unless "everywhere" somehow means "The USA"
It's quite amusing getting woken up at 7am local time because my sister who I'm visiting hasn't checked the checkbox on Vonage's site acknowledging that she doesn't have E911. Why is this amusing, and why are they calling at 7am? My sister lives in Japan.
I've been a customer of Vonage since their first year of operation, and I have been Very well informed of the fact that I don't have E911. The state it numerous times on their website, and again when you sign up. Why I have to go check yet another checkbox acknowledging that fact is beyond me.
That keyboard is the same as the famous IBM Model M, which I bought used from Microcenter for $3. Yes, three dollars. As you pointed out they last for decades. Just run it through the dishwasher for a quick clean and it's good as new. IBM made millions of them, and you can find them for fairly cheap, no need to spend $50+ on them.
While as a startup I realize you may not want entry level programmers, as this comment pointed out, the reason you can't find people with 3 years of recent experience may be because so few companies seem willing to hire people to give them 3 years of experience.
Makes you wonder if this is what Sony is doing with Cell and how they have 8 SPE's and one for "redundancy" so only 7 are available.
Apple isn't interested in Cell. While cell can provide a lot of FLOPS, code has to be written for it the SPU's, and the actual PPC core of cell is vastly slower then the 970. The core of the cell was basically stripped down to allow it to run at a high frequency to not slow the SPU's down. This would kill performance on OS X and anything not specifically written for cell. And to correct the other poster, the cell does include Altivec, or more specifically a VMX unit as its known on IBM's chips. Altivec is Motorola's (now Freescale) term for it.
My guess is that its only redundant in that it will be made in all chips but may not be working in all the chips. It is a monstrously complex chip, and just as Ati has sold graphics chips with only 4 of the pipelines enabled (the 9500) as a way to sell chips that don't have all 8 pipelines working, Sony is apparently expecting to get a fair amount of chips with only 7 working SPE's. But this is just my guess.
Its iCal and the Address book that do this, Mail just stores messages as individual files.
The Iridium network covers the entire globe. Coverage map would look like this. I'm not sure where you got your coverage map from, Iridium's site doesn't even display a map on their site that I could find. But the Iridium satellites are not in geocentric orbit, they contiunally sweep across the globe, so they in effect have to cover the entire globe or there would be a moving non coverage area.
It's supposed to mean that I've been making mp3's since probably before you had pubes.
Ah yes, insult my age. What are you, 12? how is this relevant?
Ha. I'm sorry that you consider being presented with information that contradicts your previously held (and ill-informed) views to be "whining". If you have such a low tolerance for new information I suggest you discontinue your participation in this thread.
Ahh, I see. There seems to have been a misunderstanding. It is you who is "ill-informed" and have a low tolerance for new information. I never made any claims about "signal chains." If you use LAME, what parameters are you using?
Why don't you take your great ears over to hydrogen audio, because if you can actually tell every mp3 from the source material using a modern version of lame in an ABX test then they would like to hear from you. Sitting here talking down to me isn't going to do anyone any good. Though I find it amusing so feel free to continue if you want. The simple fact is, if you can hear the difference between every mp3 and the source, YOU are encoding them wrong.
the first encoder I used was Xing. So believe me when I say I'm not hearing poorly made mp3's.
Not quite sure what that is supposed to mean considering Xing is widely regarded to be the worst encoder. Considering that Xing is the only encoder you mention, I'm going to believe you are listening to poorly made mp3s.
I don't suppose you've got a link for this "9 out of 10" business?
There is a ton of them over at hydrogenaudio. They have a whole forum dedicated to doing ABX tests on lossy codecs.
Midrange Grado headphones are hardly "midrange listening equipment." This whole issue has been discusssed to death at hydrogenaudio and the old r3mix forums. Even people with golden ears can't tell the difference between lame encoded samples at 256 and the original source except on a few tricky samples which you can find on the lame page. However those samples aren't representative of most. Decently encoded(such as lame alt-preset standard) mp3's are indistinguishable from the original source on about 99.9% of frames. You whining about crappy mp3s and saying you can hear the difference is meaningless when the only codec you even mention is xing.
nice troll. Why don't you try reading the linked page nextime? Thats exactly what they're doing.
From the FA.
Airborne Modeling Generation of 3D models of rooftops and terrain shape from airborne laser scans and photos.
Processing airborne laser scans
Reconstructing surface geometry
Texture mapping
http://www.steampowered.com
Actually it costs more. You can buy an import box of half life 2 for 30 bucks. On steam it is 55.
6500k is "warmer" than 9000k, despite being a lower number. And 6500k is redder than 9000k. Thats why its called "warmer." Color temperatures and warmth have nothing to do with the number and everything to do with how they look.