Guess Sony will have to start accepting used games for credit to puchase new ones. That's ONE way they can keep the used games off the market, buy them back for a small credit and destroy the disks.
Actually I often use only one hand on the wheel and only bring the other hand to bare when I have to make a quick sharp turn. It's a habit born out of my cockpit experience with one hand on the yoke and the other operating the radio, throttle, or other avionics.
The whole controversy boils down to how badly consumer electronics could interfere with cockpit avionics. There are several types of systems used in aircraft, and they boil down to 1: navigation 2: communication 3: auto pilot and assisted landing 4: fly by wire controls
Navigation systems generally have backups. In fact there are now at least 4 different electronic navigation aids still in use 1: NBS (non-direction beacons) are low frequency radio stations used to do a radio fix on to determine your distance and bearing from a known point, 2:VOR VHF directional beacon stations that provide known 'airways' in the sky that allow a plane to chose a known path to follow in route 3: LORAN systems using MF stations that provide a GPS like system enabling determining one's position on a map, flight direction and speed 4: GPS a UHF radio system using space based stations to show one's position , speed, altitude and track. 5: In addition there are both magnetic and gyro compass instruments to show heading. The possibility of interference with ALL of the above by personal electronics to the point of causing a flight to become even slightly lost or off course is effectively zero.
Aircraft communication systems are on various frequency bands, but mostly VHF and UHF. The radios are designed from military derived specs to meet FAA requirements. I doubt that personal electronics can cause any interference, not even requiring the readjustment of the squelch level. Auto pilot systems are only a work load reduction system. The major use is to maintain flight level and course while the pilot flies hands free to check other controls systems such as engine and hydraulics. Auto landing systems are only required as an aid in IFR (instrument flight rules) landing with close to zero visibility. Such landings would be considered an emergency situation and not attempted on most commercial flights. Such systems were developed for the military. Fly by wire systems use electronics to replace hydraulics as the connection between flight controls and aircraft control surfaces. These are mostly hard wired systems that use computer processors to handle digital sensor data. These are well hardened from interference from other electronics.
Well I STILL have a computer with a 5.25" floppy drive in it. I had to find an old mother board that still had a floppy interface (it only supports ONE drive) so I can't use both 3.5 and 5.25 drives at once. I dug up an old "AT" "HD" drive for the purpose of transfering my old copies of "Zork", "leather goddess of Phobos", and "hitchhikers guide" games to my Linux box to enjoy all over again.
I also still have a Kodak Carrosel Projector and a shitload of slides. My screen got pitched though, it was MOLDY (yuck!). I need to buy a slide scanner and convert all my negatives and slides to digital. Does anybody make a medium format slide scanner (might be able to do it on my flat bed)?
Ah phone booths. A friend of mine recorded the sound of quarters, nickles and dimes falling though a pay phone on a cassette recorder and then would play it back though the phone to rip the phone company off on long distance calls. Don't laugh, it always worked!
As for static, doesn't anybody but me still listen to shortwave radio anymore? I still have this real nice Zenith Transoceanic portable.
Also many sites that offer download purchases of music have samples you can listen to on line. I'm not sure how the RIAA feels about that, but these samples are only outcuts of songs not the complete thing. Also music can be previewed before purchase when it is played on a radio station, either over the air or over the internet.
RMS has a good argument, but unless FOSS software is at least as usable as non-free software it won't get used no matter how strong the ethical argument is. Take Gnash for example. Gnash is a free alternative to Flash, but in most cases it fails to work with youtube or hulu well enough to replace the non-free Flash.
A good example of an FOSS program that can replace a non-free one is Libre Office. It may not have all the bells and whistles of MS Office, but it can do the job well enough to meet the needs of most casual users.
I recently installed Linux Mint 12 KDE. It required a little bit of tweaking to get it how I liked. The most radical thing I did was to install Cairo Dock, and THAT required a bit of fine tuning as well. Getting the compoze manager to work right on bootup and login took a bit of searching. I also replace the default screensaver with Xscreensaver. That is almost working now, I still need to hook the screen lock into the screensaver, right now it just goes blank. Some say that KDE is a hog, maybe but it runs fine on a dual core 2.8ghz Pentium(R) in 64bit mode. I hope that Mint will include KDE in their upcoming LTS releases based on the next Ubuntu.
A 7"screen is good for the young and those with good vision. I'm past that point now and I refuse to use ANY monitor less than 20" in size for any serious work. I can manage to use my smartphone screen as a phone, for texting, reading emails, or angry birds, but for serious work it's the big monitor or nothing.
Our government is based on the principle of the separation of church and state. Therefore our laws must insist that all policies under employment law follow this principle. This means that no employer may subject their employees to policies based on the "church" of the employer. If the employer is against abortion he may not want his health insurance to pay for it, but if this decision is based on a religious conflict it is subjecting the employee to the "church" of the employer and this violates the principle of separation of church and state and therefore is illegal.
"PC" hardware isn't going anywhere. While many tasks will shift to smart phones and tablets the need for a full size keyboard isn't going away (at least not until computers can read your mind and do what you think for them to do). Desktop's are no longer mainstream for the masses, netbooks, notebooks, and laptops are, but workstations (desktops on steroids) will remain viable for cad applications. And then there are the servers and the gamers, power users that also require 'big iron'. The ATX motherboard market may become a bit more consolidated with several motherboard companies going under, but I don't see the availability of them going away.
James P. Hogan's Giant series. I've only read the second book The Gentle Giants of Ganymede and only recently discovered it was part of a series. Guess I'll have to look for the other four.
So actually the deal was that WD couldn't buy ALL of Hitachi's HD assets and has to find a seller for part of them. I've seen this before when Gould was purchased by a Japanese firm and they were forced to divest themselves of the computer division (which I was working for at the time).
Why 24 bits and 192khz sample rate? Not to record sounds above 20khz, in fact the playback device should have a steep cutoff lowpass filter set at 20khz. The reason to sample above 44.1 khz is to avoid the need for a filter so sharp that it will "ring" producing distortion. The 44.1 khz sample rate is so close to the nyquist limit that a GOOD filter is hard to produce. Another thing that was not mentioned is that the bandwidth that can be fit into 24/192 allows for additional information to be passed along in the the data beyond the audio frequency limit, much as is done in FM multicast broadcasting for stereo. This allows us to add additional surround sound encoding (in the analog region).
The Captain (or whoever was manning the bridge at the time) made the wrong decision on how to avoid the iceberg. They tried to steer around the iceberg and also slowed and then reversed the engines to reduce speed. This probably doomed the ship. A ship as large as the Titanic cannot "turn on a dime" and the slow water movement over the rudder at reduced speed destroyed it's ability to turn the ship. Even worse, reversing the engines caused the water to cavitate around the rudder reducing it's effect even more. Had they ordered "Full Speed Ahead" the rudder would have been more effective and the ship might have been able to steer clear of the iceberg before it hit.
A recent post to/. pointed to several articles that brought up the fact that a solid 8 hours of sleep may not be normal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep http://www.history.vt.edu/Ekirch/sleepcommentary.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/opinion/19ekirch.html Our brains may very well be wired to a distrupted sleep and taking pills to 'correct' this is not a good idea!
Everyone seems to missunderstand the intent. If you NEVER drink before you get in the car you only need to have the cheap breath tester in the car to show the cops that you HAVE one (they will ask to see it if they stop you for any reason). If you DO have any drinks before getting back in the car you are expected to test yourself before you get behind the wheel and decline to drive if you fail the test (only if you are REALLY BOMBED you will be too stupid to do this!).
Their action can be considered an act of war. This gives us the right to board their ships anywhere in the ocean or even sink them. They should think about that.
"Luckily for those who run Linux, the H.264 codec (also known as the Advanced Video Codec, or AVC) has a successful and effective open-source implementation known as x264. In fact, the x264 Project won the Doom9 2005 codec comparison test (see the on-line Resources). x264 continues to make progress and improvements, and it remains an active project."
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Guess Sony will have to start accepting used games for credit to puchase new ones. That's ONE way they can keep the used games off the market, buy them back for a small credit and destroy the disks.
He transports nuclear warheads IN A PINTO.
Actually I often use only one hand on the wheel and only bring the other hand to bare when I have to make a quick sharp turn.
It's a habit born out of my cockpit experience with one hand on the yoke and the other operating the radio, throttle, or other avionics.
The whole controversy boils down to how badly consumer electronics could interfere with cockpit avionics. There are several types of systems used in aircraft, and they boil down to 1: navigation 2: communication 3: auto pilot and assisted landing 4: fly by wire controls
Navigation systems generally have backups. In fact there are now at least 4 different electronic navigation aids still in use 1: NBS (non-direction beacons) are low frequency radio stations used to do a radio fix on to determine your distance and bearing from a known point, 2:VOR VHF directional beacon stations that provide known 'airways' in the sky that allow a plane to chose a known path to follow in route 3: LORAN systems using MF stations that provide a GPS like system enabling determining one's position on a map, flight direction and speed 4: GPS a UHF radio system using space based stations to show one's position , speed, altitude and track. 5: In addition there are both magnetic and gyro compass instruments to show heading. The possibility of interference with ALL of the above by personal electronics to the point of causing a flight to become even slightly lost or off course is effectively zero.
Aircraft communication systems are on various frequency bands, but mostly VHF and UHF. The radios are designed from military derived specs to meet FAA requirements. I doubt that personal electronics can cause any interference, not even requiring the readjustment of the squelch level. Auto pilot systems are only a work load reduction system. The major use is to maintain flight level and course while the pilot flies hands free to check other controls systems such as engine and hydraulics. Auto landing systems are only required as an aid in IFR (instrument flight rules) landing with close to zero visibility. Such landings would be considered an emergency situation and not attempted on most commercial flights. Such systems were developed for the military. Fly by wire systems use electronics to replace hydraulics as the connection between flight controls and aircraft control surfaces. These are mostly hard wired systems that use computer processors to handle digital sensor data. These are well hardened from interference from other electronics.
I remeber the movie "War Games". As the video screen filled you heard the sound of a teletype. Stupid.
Well I STILL have a computer with a 5.25" floppy drive in it. I had to find an old mother board that still had a floppy interface (it only supports ONE drive) so I can't use both 3.5 and 5.25 drives at once. I dug up an old "AT" "HD" drive for the purpose of transfering my old copies of "Zork", "leather goddess of Phobos", and "hitchhikers guide" games to my Linux box to enjoy all over again.
I also still have a Kodak Carrosel Projector and a shitload of slides. My screen got pitched though, it was MOLDY (yuck!). I need to buy a slide scanner and convert all my negatives and slides to digital. Does anybody make a medium format slide scanner (might be able to do it on my flat bed)?
Ah phone booths. A friend of mine recorded the sound of quarters, nickles and dimes falling though a pay phone on a cassette recorder and then would play it back though the phone to rip the phone company off on long distance calls. Don't laugh, it always worked!
As for static, doesn't anybody but me still listen to shortwave radio anymore? I still have this real nice Zenith Transoceanic portable.
Also many sites that offer download purchases of music have samples you can listen to on line. I'm not sure how the RIAA feels about that, but these samples are only outcuts of songs not the complete thing. Also music can be previewed before purchase when it is played on a radio station, either over the air or over the internet.
RMS has a good argument, but unless FOSS software is at least as usable as non-free software it won't get used no matter how strong the ethical argument is. Take Gnash for example. Gnash is a free alternative to Flash, but in most cases it fails to work with youtube or hulu well enough to replace the non-free Flash.
A good example of an FOSS program that can replace a non-free one is Libre Office. It may not have all the bells and whistles of MS Office, but it can do the job well enough to meet the needs of most casual users.
I recently installed Linux Mint 12 KDE. It required a little bit of tweaking to get it how I liked. The most radical thing I did was to install Cairo Dock, and THAT required a bit of fine tuning as well. Getting the compoze manager to work right on bootup and login took a bit of searching. I also replace the default screensaver with Xscreensaver. That is almost working now, I still need to hook the screen lock into the screensaver, right now it just goes blank. Some say that KDE is a hog, maybe but it runs fine on a dual core 2.8ghz Pentium(R) in 64bit mode. I hope that Mint will include KDE in their upcoming LTS releases based on the next Ubuntu.
He should invite Clive Cussler to come along for a ride. Maybe Clive will bring Dirk Pitt along too.
A 7"screen is good for the young and those with good vision. I'm past that point now and I refuse to use ANY monitor less than 20" in size for any serious work. I can manage to use my smartphone screen as a phone, for texting, reading emails, or angry birds, but for serious work it's the big monitor or nothing.
Our government is based on the principle of the separation of church and state. Therefore our laws must insist that all policies under employment law follow this principle. This means that no employer may subject their employees to policies based on the "church" of the employer. If the employer is against abortion he may not want his health insurance to pay for it, but if this decision is based on a religious conflict it is subjecting the employee to the "church" of the employer and this violates the principle of separation of church and state and therefore is illegal.
"PC" hardware isn't going anywhere. While many tasks will shift to smart phones and tablets the need for a full size keyboard isn't going away (at least not until computers can read your mind and do what you think for them to do). Desktop's are no longer mainstream for the masses, netbooks, notebooks, and laptops are, but workstations (desktops on steroids) will remain viable for cad applications. And then there are the servers and the gamers, power users that also require 'big iron'.
The ATX motherboard market may become a bit more consolidated with several motherboard companies going under, but I don't see the availability of them going away.
When Worlds Collide and the sequel After Worlds Collide co-written by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer.
The first was made into a movie.
James P. Hogan's Giant series. I've only read the second book The Gentle Giants of Ganymede and only recently discovered it was part of a series. Guess I'll have to look for the other four.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_series
So actually the deal was that WD couldn't buy ALL of Hitachi's HD assets and has to find a seller for part of them.
I've seen this before when Gould was purchased by a Japanese firm and they were forced to divest themselves of the computer division (which I was working for at the time).
This will leave no good desk top hard drives being made. WD was the last decent brand.
Why 24 bits and 192khz sample rate? Not to record sounds above 20khz, in fact the playback device should have a steep cutoff lowpass filter set at 20khz. The reason to sample above 44.1 khz is to avoid the need for a filter so sharp that it will "ring" producing distortion. The 44.1 khz sample rate is so close to the nyquist limit that a GOOD filter is hard to produce. Another thing that was not mentioned is that the bandwidth that can be fit into 24/192 allows for additional information to be passed along in the the data beyond the audio frequency limit, much as is done in FM multicast broadcasting for stereo. This allows us to add additional surround sound encoding (in the analog region).
The Captain (or whoever was manning the bridge at the time) made the wrong decision on how to avoid the iceberg. They tried to steer around the iceberg and also slowed and then reversed the engines to reduce speed. This probably doomed the ship. A ship as large as the Titanic cannot "turn on a dime" and the slow water movement over the rudder at reduced speed destroyed it's ability to turn the ship. Even worse, reversing the engines caused the water to cavitate around the rudder reducing it's effect even more. Had they ordered "Full Speed Ahead" the rudder would have been more effective and the ship might have been able to steer clear of the iceberg before it hit.
Hey #1 or #2 is EXACTLY how Bush got re-elected!
A recent post to /. pointed to several articles that brought up the fact that a solid 8 hours of sleep may not be normal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
http://www.history.vt.edu/Ekirch/sleepcommentary.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/opinion/19ekirch.html
Our brains may very well be wired to a distrupted sleep and taking pills to 'correct' this is not a good idea!
Everyone seems to missunderstand the intent. If you NEVER drink before you get in the car you only need to have the cheap breath tester in the car to show the cops that you HAVE one (they will ask to see it if they stop you for any reason). If you DO have any drinks before getting back in the car you are expected to test yourself before you get behind the wheel and decline to drive if you fail the test (only if you are REALLY BOMBED you will be too stupid to do this!).
Yes and we geeks can take our network back anytime we want to. You don't want to use the internet on OUR terms, then you will be denied access to it!
Their action can be considered an act of war. This gives us the right to board their ships anywhere in the ocean or even sink them. They should think about that.
Guess you don't know about this:
"Luckily for those who run Linux, the H.264 codec (also known as the Advanced Video Codec, or AVC) has a successful and effective open-source implementation known as x264. In fact, the x264 Project won the Doom9 2005 codec comparison test (see the on-line Resources). x264 continues to make progress and improvements, and it remains an active project."