I'm not entirely sure, but I do remember talking about negative modulation in the NTSC/PAL systems, though, IIRC, black was not 100%, as that was reserved for the sync signal. I might be confusing systems though.
I have a 386 from the eighties and it works fine. I also have a Pentium 100 from '94 working too. Neither was particularly well cared for. Oh, and a SNES from '93. And an N64. And 2 other PCs older than 5 years working 24/7. In a house in which temperature ranges from less than 10C in winter to over 30C in the summer (excelent engineering).
And it's not like I had 10 of each, so either I'm extremely lucky or something's wrong with your estimate.
Of course that only limits inneficient appliances to rich people, problem solved!
Except our atmosphere doesn't care for how much money you have, and doesn't keep a special cozy compartment to store the emissions you can afford. So, if there's an equally good alternative (such as LCD screens, or high efficiency plasmas), then why should we keep allowing the sale of the inneficient ones?
The (at that time underground) communist party, with strong ties to the Soviet one, was actually one of the major players in the abolishment of a decades long dictatorship in my country, and it's not an isolated case. And no, they didn't run around executing people.
Communism is as valid a political ideology as any of the others, and it's certainly not "evil". Its implementation, on the other hand, might be. So can an implementation of conservatism, as the US has so successfully shown over the last few years.
And no, I'm far from being communist, never voted for the communist party and probably never will. I just find it sad to see someone so obviously brainwashed by false, discusting propaganda.
Obviously a whole legion of Apple fanboys will commit suicide so their liver can live on inside Jobs. And as he does not need to pay anyone, it's all good.
Last time I crossed the US border was on Sept. 9 2001 at JFK. I was still unpacking when I got the news. At the time I had no problem going to the US, but, not long after, I started noticing the decline in tourist treatment and decided not to go back.
Since then I've had the chance to enroll on a fully funded PhD program at Carnegie Mellon. Guess what, I'm not going.
I'm still hoping things will change under Obama, but as it I'm just not willing to cross the US border anymore.
I'll have to stick with the other replies and state that I can't predict what they'll be doing for the next 10 and a half years.
I can however show you 3 ideas, notable for different reasons:
- Singularity, for its managed approach to the OS core
- ClearType, not because it's a huge innovation but because it's really in use
- Photosynth, for the wow factor
They have a a few hundred publications, most of which are outside my research area and probably beyond my comprehension. Since they had more papers accepted to SIGGRAPH than anyone else, it being the most prestigious CG conference, I'd guess they're actually doing some real research on that field.
I'm not saying that it's the best solution, but setting up a DBRL is beyond most home users knowledge. WHS is a turn-key solution, both sold in box and pre-installed in a computer, and as far as I can tell is easily used by someone who already uses windows. That's the improvement.
I'm with you on the language though, I don't see a need or a will to use it.
is the sound of a company dieing... seriously. Yes, there will be those that call this post a troll, but look at the facts. What new product has MS announced that was not met with criticism and derision? What have they done in the last 5 years that improved the personal computing world?
Windows Home Server actually received pretty good reviews, and it can be considered an improvement (mainly in the ease of use) on the current (non-geek) home server scene - the non-existing one that is. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'm looking forward to it (and no, I'm not a fanboy, I actually run 3 servers at home: windows, linux and freebsd).
Then there's Microsoft Research, which actually comes up with some great stuff, though most of it is not (yet) implementable on a commercial scale.
So I'll call your post a troll. That's just my opinion too.
I can tell you that (AFAIK) here in Portugal we never had any shortage of Wiis, ever since it was launched. Everytime I go to a game store there's always a mountain of them.
They actually have a search function... You can go to "Find an assurer" and get a list of e-mails in your area. I've been assured that way the first time, though I got my other points at a conference party.
It all dependes where you live, sure, but in my country CAcert isn't even that popular and I've got a couple douzen of assurers in my city. And those I know don't mind going a bit out of their way to meet you where you can.
Oh, and the parties at CAcert aren't exactly like PGP. PGP uses a fully distributed mode, where the more signatures the better (since you're trying to build transitive trust, you need a chain between you and someone your destination trusts). In CAcert trust is given by the authority, so you only need enough points. At a party you can get them all at once, so you won't need to go to several - it's a one time thing. You just to to the CAcert people (usually a group of regular members, enough to give you "all" the points), show your documents, they check them and you're done.
Actually you can only get a certificate from CACert if you've been assured with enough points, and that's only supposed to happen after in-person ID verification by multiple members. The certificate includes the verified identity of the member, or the organization if that's the case.
You can debate if this web of trust model is acceptable, but it's been used by Thawte for some time now, and its certificate is included in every browser.
They're everywhere. They were there before 9/11 too. Just look at the whole 'right to bear arms' dispute. I'm not anti-guns but the 'we need guns to defend ourselves' stance is an obvious symptom of fear, injustified fear for almost everyone. I don't carry a gun and I'm not especially afraid of being robbed/killed/etc. But then again, I'm not in the US.
Religion gets dragged in because most religious people share your opinion and most non-religious pictures share the oposite opinion. You can look at it in any way you like, but there is a correlation between believing in a god and being anti-abortion.
Out of curiosity, at which point does it become a "human life"? At the moment of fertilization? Are you against "morning after" pills then? And IUDs? And anti-implantation drugs? In all of them fertilization can occur, so are you killing an human? Or is it just when it gets to N cells?
It probably won't make much of a difference, but you may try reducing the bandwidths configured in your current router's QoS page (which should already be somewhat lower than the real values) to, let's say, 70% of the real values.
It will, of course, reduce your peak bandwidth, but it can help with the prioritization.
People use it, as they use RealPlayer. That doesn't make it's not crap, which it is. Even in Macs, most minimally nerdy people install VLC or any other alternative player.
Google is a major employer of Engineering PhDs for a reason! Google does bleeding-edge DS research while Apple is basically Microsoft minus Microsoft Research plus a lot of designers.
There's just no need to hire the best for that kind of work, so they can afford to continue paying inferior salaries.
If they can't find time to spend a day with their kids, they shouldn't have had them in the first place. Seriously, there's something very wrong when you just can't take one weekend off to be with your family.
My kids won't get upset if I take an important call for a minute or two. Either that or they don't tell you. I agree with you on the emergency calls stuff, but obviously that won't be affected by this policy. Assuming you don't deal with more than 1 emergency per day, you'll just keep the phone away until it rings and answer the emergency call. Even if a park nazi comes, you already got the info and can leave to take care of it.
If there's a disaster on the park, you'll probably be informed by means other than your cell. Work calls is a good thing, as I already said you shouldn't be taking work calls when you're with your family; set some limits.
And then comes the finding family members. That's an interesting question, and I'll give in on it too. But keep in mind there were amusement parks before there were cellphones.
My phone's always on too, and by your descruption I probably use it a lot more than you do. But I'm not on an amusement park with my kids (not that I have any).
As for it being between him and his family, it doesn't work. Most kids won't say a thing, and even if they do a workaholic parent (note that I'm not saying the person in question is one, but the target of this policy can be; if you're not confortable with the workaholic scenario, just imagine Paris Hilton has kids) will probably ignore them.
And it's not their business if you're not in their park. If they're willing to keep annoying parents out even if that loses them customers, that's their call.
Hmmm... That's exactly the point. If you go to an amusement park with your family, they won't be thrilled if you can't spend more than a few hours without taking a call.
Well then they're not asking for any more info than they'll already get when they audit you.
However, if they have this info they can automatically get a list of all business which report less sales than they had on CCs alone, and audit those first.
You might think that not reporting income from CC transactions is dumb, but there are people doing it right now. I'm not in the US but you'd be surprised if you knew how many people do it here.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I do remember talking about negative modulation in the NTSC/PAL systems, though, IIRC, black was not 100%, as that was reserved for the sync signal. I might be confusing systems though.
I have a 386 from the eighties and it works fine. I also have a Pentium 100 from '94 working too. Neither was particularly well cared for. Oh, and a SNES from '93. And an N64. And 2 other PCs older than 5 years working 24/7. In a house in which temperature ranges from less than 10C in winter to over 30C in the summer (excelent engineering).
And it's not like I had 10 of each, so either I'm extremely lucky or something's wrong with your estimate.
Of course that only limits inneficient appliances to rich people, problem solved!
Except our atmosphere doesn't care for how much money you have, and doesn't keep a special cozy compartment to store the emissions you can afford. So, if there's an equally good alternative (such as LCD screens, or high efficiency plasmas), then why should we keep allowing the sale of the inneficient ones?
Talk about brainwashing!
The (at that time underground) communist party, with strong ties to the Soviet one, was actually one of the major players in the abolishment of a decades long dictatorship in my country, and it's not an isolated case. And no, they didn't run around executing people.
Communism is as valid a political ideology as any of the others, and it's certainly not "evil". Its implementation, on the other hand, might be. So can an implementation of conservatism, as the US has so successfully shown over the last few years.
And no, I'm far from being communist, never voted for the communist party and probably never will. I just find it sad to see someone so obviously brainwashed by false, discusting propaganda.
Obviously a whole legion of Apple fanboys will commit suicide so their liver can live on inside Jobs. And as he does not need to pay anyone, it's all good.
My thoughts exactly.
Last time I crossed the US border was on Sept. 9 2001 at JFK. I was still unpacking when I got the news. At the time I had no problem going to the US, but, not long after, I started noticing the decline in tourist treatment and decided not to go back.
Since then I've had the chance to enroll on a fully funded PhD program at Carnegie Mellon. Guess what, I'm not going.
I'm still hoping things will change under Obama, but as it I'm just not willing to cross the US border anymore.
One of the best european technical schools in Europe?
It would be far more impressive if it was one of the best european technical schools in Africa.
I'll have to stick with the other replies and state that I can't predict what they'll be doing for the next 10 and a half years.
I can however show you 3 ideas, notable for different reasons:
- Singularity, for its managed approach to the OS core
- ClearType, not because it's a huge innovation but because it's really in use
- Photosynth, for the wow factor
They have a a few hundred publications, most of which are outside my research area and probably beyond my comprehension. Since they had more papers accepted to SIGGRAPH than anyone else, it being the most prestigious CG conference, I'd guess they're actually doing some real research on that field.
I'm not saying that it's the best solution, but setting up a DBRL is beyond most home users knowledge. WHS is a turn-key solution, both sold in box and pre-installed in a computer, and as far as I can tell is easily used by someone who already uses windows. That's the improvement.
I'm with you on the language though, I don't see a need or a will to use it.
is the sound of a company dieing ... seriously. Yes, there will be those that call this post a troll, but look at the facts. What new product has MS announced that was not met with criticism and derision? What have they done in the last 5 years that improved the personal computing world?
Windows Home Server actually received pretty good reviews, and it can be considered an improvement (mainly in the ease of use) on the current (non-geek) home server scene - the non-existing one that is. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'm looking forward to it (and no, I'm not a fanboy, I actually run 3 servers at home: windows, linux and freebsd).
Then there's Microsoft Research, which actually comes up with some great stuff, though most of it is not (yet) implementable on a commercial scale.
So I'll call your post a troll. That's just my opinion too.
First time in years!
I can tell you that (AFAIK) here in Portugal we never had any shortage of Wiis, ever since it was launched. Everytime I go to a game store there's always a mountain of them.
They actually have a search function... You can go to "Find an assurer" and get a list of e-mails in your area. I've been assured that way the first time, though I got my other points at a conference party.
It all dependes where you live, sure, but in my country CAcert isn't even that popular and I've got a couple douzen of assurers in my city. And those I know don't mind going a bit out of their way to meet you where you can.
Oh, and the parties at CAcert aren't exactly like PGP. PGP uses a fully distributed mode, where the more signatures the better (since you're trying to build transitive trust, you need a chain between you and someone your destination trusts). In CAcert trust is given by the authority, so you only need enough points. At a party you can get them all at once, so you won't need to go to several - it's a one time thing. You just to to the CAcert people (usually a group of regular members, enough to give you "all" the points), show your documents, they check them and you're done.
Actually you can only get a certificate from CACert if you've been assured with enough points, and that's only supposed to happen after in-person ID verification by multiple members. The certificate includes the verified identity of the member, or the organization if that's the case.
You can debate if this web of trust model is acceptable, but it's been used by Thawte for some time now, and its certificate is included in every browser.
They're everywhere. They were there before 9/11 too. Just look at the whole 'right to bear arms' dispute. I'm not anti-guns but the 'we need guns to defend ourselves' stance is an obvious symptom of fear, injustified fear for almost everyone. I don't carry a gun and I'm not especially afraid of being robbed/killed/etc. But then again, I'm not in the US.
Religion gets dragged in because most religious people share your opinion and most non-religious pictures share the oposite opinion. You can look at it in any way you like, but there is a correlation between believing in a god and being anti-abortion.
Out of curiosity, at which point does it become a "human life"? At the moment of fertilization? Are you against "morning after" pills then? And IUDs? And anti-implantation drugs? In all of them fertilization can occur, so are you killing an human? Or is it just when it gets to N cells?
It probably won't make much of a difference, but you may try reducing the bandwidths configured in your current router's QoS page (which should already be somewhat lower than the real values) to, let's say, 70% of the real values.
It will, of course, reduce your peak bandwidth, but it can help with the prioritization.
People use it, as they use RealPlayer. That doesn't make it's not crap, which it is. Even in Macs, most minimally nerdy people install VLC or any other alternative player.
Google is a major employer of Engineering PhDs for a reason! Google does bleeding-edge DS research while Apple is basically Microsoft minus Microsoft Research plus a lot of designers.
There's just no need to hire the best for that kind of work, so they can afford to continue paying inferior salaries.
If they can't find time to spend a day with their kids, they shouldn't have had them in the first place. Seriously, there's something very wrong when you just can't take one weekend off to be with your family.
It all depends on their age... For the older ones you're right, it probably won't matter. The younger will notice, even if you don't.
If there's a disaster on the park, you'll probably be informed by means other than your cell. Work calls is a good thing, as I already said you shouldn't be taking work calls when you're with your family; set some limits.
And then comes the finding family members. That's an interesting question, and I'll give in on it too. But keep in mind there were amusement parks before there were cellphones.
My phone's always on too, and by your descruption I probably use it a lot more than you do. But I'm not on an amusement park with my kids (not that I have any).
As for it being between him and his family, it doesn't work. Most kids won't say a thing, and even if they do a workaholic parent (note that I'm not saying the person in question is one, but the target of this policy can be; if you're not confortable with the workaholic scenario, just imagine Paris Hilton has kids) will probably ignore them.
And it's not their business if you're not in their park. If they're willing to keep annoying parents out even if that loses them customers, that's their call.
Hmmm... That's exactly the point. If you go to an amusement park with your family, they won't be thrilled if you can't spend more than a few hours without taking a call.
Well then they're not asking for any more info than they'll already get when they audit you.
However, if they have this info they can automatically get a list of all business which report less sales than they had on CCs alone, and audit those first.
You might think that not reporting income from CC transactions is dumb, but there are people doing it right now. I'm not in the US but you'd be surprised if you knew how many people do it here.