eah, someone from the 1920's would be amazed at the people walking around while talking on their cell phones
A wireless phone wouldn't cause that much of a stare. They already had phones for 20 years at that point. Also, radio was working then as well.
and by seeing people of color eating side by side with white folk.
This happened in 1920. Rarely, but it happened
Women in the workforce?
They existed. My grandmother was one of them.
Dressed like chippies?
I think you might mean hippies. Every seen an old National Geographic of how indians dressed?
With skirts above the knee?
Kids with metal stuck through their skin?
Ever seen an old national geographic that had pictures of some African tribes where the women wore nothing above the waist? And had bones through their noses?
I think the best example is when the Apollo 13 astronauts rigged an air scrubber and used their lunar module as a propulsion system to get home after the service module blew up.
The air scrubber in the lunar lander unit and the air scrubber in the service module were different shapes (one round, one square). The engineers on earth figured out how to put a round peg in a squar hole.
The service module did not blow up, an oxygen tank ruptured. However, they did use the lunar module propulsion for a course correction.
I'd bet that the resulting PDFs from MS's implementation would probably be a bit more efficient than some of the "print to PDF" programs available for free.
I'm not sure it could get less efficient. Print to PDFs work by printing the document as an "image" and then essentially saving that inside of a PDF. Adobe Acrobat actually saves in a compressed ASCII format which is an order of magnitude or more efficient in terms of file size. MS Office would likely be the same.
It seems like Acrobat is falling from it's peak. I know the PDF format is a defacto standard. However, the Adobe seems to be having problems on some fronts. One thing I've noticed, and I realize this is a loose correlation, is that when a company starts to fall it's products start to come with some interesting "features".
Real Player: Naging upgrade notices whenver you didn't have the most recent version. Hard to find "free" version. Addware in the install.
AIM has come with it's own supply of programs, ranging from advertising AOL Explorer to some programs it installed to play AIM mini games (I've forgoten which one since I uninstalled it a while ago, but it set off alerts in Ad-Aware)
Yahoo!: Cluttered their home page with a whole bunch of adverts.
Adobe: Acrobat Reader now tries to install Yahoo! Toolbar by default.
Just seems like whenever a company starts bundling adds and addware programs with their software they start to fall from grace. Anyone have any other examples of software companies tanking like that?
It's not so simple to "throw in" a new chip. MPEG2 is a well understood codec at this point and has high quality hardware encoders/decoders available. H264 still has some ways to go with this technology. I've seen side by side demonstrations of the latest h264 encoder boxes compared to MPEG2 boxes. All h264 profesional level boxes I've seen (the kind that go in TV stations) are not yet up to the task and as I've seen so far, are all software implementations. Also, the claimed high bandwidth savings are, currently, only theoretical. The closest the realtime encoders have come to to date is maybe 90% of the bitrate of MPEG2. Mind you, this is for full resolution, using some very detailed pictures, when you have some people with very good eyes and experience looking at the video.
Maybe in five or ten years h264 will be in a box like this, but I don't think they are going to do so just yet as the implementations of h264 are not yet that great.
I'm assuming MPEG2. At standard DVD quality, that provides about 5 hours. So, 2 to 4 movies can be downloaded this way depending on length. While MPEG2 is not the best codec, it is the most widely understood and the one that encoders have the most experience with. As such, I consider it the one they are most likely to use. However, I wouldnot be surprised if they used MPEG1 (VCD/VHS quality) instead. Also, animation can be encoded at a lower bitrate than live action given the flat shading it generally uses. So I guess it really comes down to what they are planning on showing.
As a Mexican person who prays for never needing to go to the USA (I just went once to Disney World and Universal Studios), I say, fuck the USA government.
Oh, and please if you are from the USA do not get offended, it is nothing personal against citizens, its about the government:).
Interesting. So a private individual in the us who runs a corporation proposes chipping migrants and you start insulting and blaming the US government who has NOT proposed this. And people say the US is racist and xenophobic.
Hundreds of movies on a subaudible or non-visible carrier? The bandwidth must be miniscule!?
The movies are transmitted in the color sub carrier of the TV signal. It is miniscule but is sometimes noticeable for a second. However, even at 5kbyte/s, over 4 weeks that is over 10GB. Plenty for two movies in there, more if they use a lower resolution.
Enough to make it worth their while. This has been going on for several years at this point. Probably several thousand, if not more, per month. Enough to help offset the transmitter power bill.
Or at least, as a taxpayer I should be getting a kickback
Uh... No. PBS member stations are not run be the federal government and in only a few states are they owned by the states. They are getting this money directly into their own operating fund. Tell me which state you are in and I can tell you if the PBS stations are owned by your state or not.
Then answere me this. What happens when interpretations of the Constitution change? What is constitutional one century may not be constitutional 100 years later and vice versa. This is even without amendments to the constitution being enacted. Laws that stood on the books for 200 years are overturned as unconstitutional and the judges admit they are interpreting the constitution in ways the original framers did not intend.
Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America:
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
Passing or voting for an unconstitutional law is not treason.
To me it seems incompatible. Along with the Free Flow of Information part. If you want to protect peoples privacy, you make laws that restrict the dissemination of information about them. This information is immaterial, hence the laws about it would be elliminated under their platform. Additionaly, creating any law to restrict access to the information and protect the privacy would restrict the free flow of information.
They need to be more precise about what they want.
Ok, one thing I've noticed and I'm curious about in the console wars. How much have the consoles changed with each new version? Besides processing power and graphics, that's standard, I mean the gameplay and controls and other features.
The PS1, 2 and 3 are all using the same basic controller. The additions of a broadband adapter and hard drive are the only changes it seems.
On the Nintendo end, they have changed the controller every single time, trying to come up with a better interface it seems. The Wii continues this with the new controller, but also lets you keep the Gamecube controlelrs as well.
XBOX/360. I'm not sure if there are any changes between the two at all, I haven't paid much attention to it. THe main thing XBOX has is the talk feature for when you are in games. (although PS2 may have this as well) Also, the massive XBOX LIVE support.
Have some huge contraption made ready such that a huge explosion at some specific point can be used to set up potential energy reservoirs which then can be tapped slowly and efficiently.
Now, explode anything, and now we do have a means to obtain energy from the same.
Here's a few links showing the explosions we've used. Some even involved fusion reactions. image1 image2 image3 image4 image5
Who cares about 1/2 the file size w/ 4GB flash memory cards available all over the place?
Let see... I know a few people with high quality digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. I have one myself (and mine is a lower pixel count than most). My images on highest quality JPEG compression (one step short of RAW) are about 4MB. The only reason I, and the others, generaly do not use RAW is that it is 18MB/shot and would quickly fill up the cards. If we could get compressed RAW quality, we would. Yes, I do realize that this would pretty much only be useful to Pro and semi-Pros.
Now, as for websites, I can easily see this as being useful. Images take up most of the bandwidth for websites. If you could cut the size in half without reducing quality I can't think of anyone who wouldn't do so. Bandwidth costs money. Cutting the size down by half would cut costs.
Quote: "In a stunning and belated development concerning the attacks of 9/11 Larry Silverstein, the controller of the destroyed WTC complex, stated plainly in a PBS documentary that he and the FDNY decided jointly to demolish the Solomon Bros. building, or WTC 7, late in the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001."
Back to the engines. Airplane engines are relatively fragile pieces of equipment and are full of fuel. Also, given that they are close to the body on a 757 Picture Here The hole made in the pentagon was bigger than the fuselage by a large amount. There was one hole and it makes sense that there was one hole. When objects crash into a building or wall, they do not leave nice clean carboard cutouts like in cartoons, they leave big gaping holes.
Much as I think McKinnon is an idiot he should be tried and, if found guilty, punished in the UK: he stands some tiny chance of a fair trial here, along with a proportionate sentence.
A) Why should he be tried in a country where the crime did not take place?
B) Why do you think he won't get a fair trial in the US?
C) From the article "McKinnon faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine." How is that a disproportionate sentence?
On a slightly more serious note. It seems like the price will kill the PS3 as a massive gaming platform. On the other hand, Sony may finally achieve their goal of having a home entertainment system. Dang, I'm going to miss the PS series. Best one so far for RPGs.
And so I return to my premise that it's time to nationalize the communications infrastructure in this country. Declare it an important national resource, vital to the safety and security of US citizens, and then take it away from these greedy pinheads. Create a department to oversee telecommunications infrastructure and force these companies to bid on maintenance contracts for the various regions of the country.
it was called Ma Bell (old AT&T). I've never heard of a service complaint with them from anyone. Then the DoJ went and broke them up.
What do you think would happen if Cox "blocked" Google. Do you think the vast majority of Cox users would care enough to switch ? Do you think they have the ability to switch ?
I live in the Washington DC area. Cox has been for several years the only broadband provider. With Verizon building out their Fiber network, we now have the option of DSL. So, ability to switch? YES!
What happens tomorrow if they decide to throttle back Gmail, and throttle up Hotmail ?
Users also, with certain exceptions like flat-rate phone service (which still doesn't include overseas calling), pay per actual usage of the service (i.e., per-minute phone rates or postage stamps). And in the case of stamps, you can pay more to get better service (overnight, 1st class v. Parcel Post, etc.)
Actually, bulk rate mail subsidizes first class mail to help keep the price down and consistent for all. It costs more to send a letter from LA to someone the middle of Kansas than it does from LA to DC. And yes, I do realize there is a request to increase the price of stamps coming up.
intendo has guaranteed that they will launch under $300, with speculation in the $200-$250 range. Nintendo will be able to clean MS and Sony's clocks based on price alone. Not even taking into account all the other great stuff (downloadable library,
We seem to be of one mind on this one. The lower garunteed price tag and the library of old Nintendo (and some SEGA) games is going to be interesting. The main reason I want a revolution... excuse me WII is because of that old library. I never owned a system until the pocket gameboy came out in '98 (had a computer instead). I want access to that library of games. First up, FF1.
That sub $300 price point is going to be a key seller to, especially to people without a lot of disposable income. I'm betting on $250 myself. Any word on the starting price of the new games? $50? $60? $70? $80?
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eah, someone from the 1920's would be amazed at the people walking around while talking on their cell phones
A wireless phone wouldn't cause that much of a stare. They already had phones for 20 years at that point. Also, radio was working then as well.
and by seeing people of color eating side by side with white folk.
This happened in 1920. Rarely, but it happened
Women in the workforce?
They existed. My grandmother was one of them.
Dressed like chippies?
I think you might mean hippies. Every seen an old National Geographic of how indians dressed?
With skirts above the knee?
Kids with metal stuck through their skin?
Ever seen an old national geographic that had pictures of some African tribes where the women wore nothing above the waist? And had bones through their noses?
I think the best example is when the Apollo 13 astronauts rigged an air scrubber and used their lunar module as a propulsion system to get home after the service module blew up.
Way off on some of the facts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13
The air scrubber in the lunar lander unit and the air scrubber in the service module were different shapes (one round, one square). The engineers on earth figured out how to put a round peg in a squar hole.
The service module did not blow up, an oxygen tank ruptured. However, they did use the lunar module propulsion for a course correction.
I'd bet that the resulting PDFs from MS's implementation would probably be a bit more efficient than some of the "print to PDF" programs available for free.
I'm not sure it could get less efficient. Print to PDFs work by printing the document as an "image" and then essentially saving that inside of a PDF. Adobe Acrobat actually saves in a compressed ASCII format which is an order of magnitude or more efficient in terms of file size. MS Office would likely be the same.
It seems like Acrobat is falling from it's peak. I know the PDF format is a defacto standard. However, the Adobe seems to be having problems on some fronts. One thing I've noticed, and I realize this is a loose correlation, is that when a company starts to fall it's products start to come with some interesting "features".
Real Player: Naging upgrade notices whenver you didn't have the most recent version. Hard to find "free" version. Addware in the install.
AIM has come with it's own supply of programs, ranging from advertising AOL Explorer to some programs it installed to play AIM mini games (I've forgoten which one since I uninstalled it a while ago, but it set off alerts in Ad-Aware)
Yahoo!: Cluttered their home page with a whole bunch of adverts.
Adobe: Acrobat Reader now tries to install Yahoo! Toolbar by default.
Just seems like whenever a company starts bundling adds and addware programs with their software they start to fall from grace. Anyone have any other examples of software companies tanking like that?
It's not so simple to "throw in" a new chip. MPEG2 is a well understood codec at this point and has high quality hardware encoders/decoders available. H264 still has some ways to go with this technology. I've seen side by side demonstrations of the latest h264 encoder boxes compared to MPEG2 boxes. All h264 profesional level boxes I've seen (the kind that go in TV stations) are not yet up to the task and as I've seen so far, are all software implementations. Also, the claimed high bandwidth savings are, currently, only theoretical. The closest the realtime encoders have come to to date is maybe 90% of the bitrate of MPEG2. Mind you, this is for full resolution, using some very detailed pictures, when you have some people with very good eyes and experience looking at the video.
Maybe in five or ten years h264 will be in a box like this, but I don't think they are going to do so just yet as the implementations of h264 are not yet that great.
I'm assuming MPEG2. At standard DVD quality, that provides about 5 hours. So, 2 to 4 movies can be downloaded this way depending on length. While MPEG2 is not the best codec, it is the most widely understood and the one that encoders have the most experience with. As such, I consider it the one they are most likely to use. However, I wouldnot be surprised if they used MPEG1 (VCD/VHS quality) instead. Also, animation can be encoded at a lower bitrate than live action given the flat shading it generally uses. So I guess it really comes down to what they are planning on showing.
As a Mexican person who prays for never needing to go to the USA (I just went once to Disney World and Universal Studios), I say, fuck the USA government.
:).
Oh, and please if you are from the USA do not get offended, it is nothing personal against citizens, its about the government
Interesting. So a private individual in the us who runs a corporation proposes chipping migrants and you start insulting and blaming the US government who has NOT proposed this. And people say the US is racist and xenophobic.
Hundreds of movies on a subaudible or non-visible carrier? The bandwidth must be miniscule!?
The movies are transmitted in the color sub carrier of the TV signal. It is miniscule but is sometimes noticeable for a second. However, even at 5kbyte/s, over 4 weeks that is over 10GB. Plenty for two movies in there, more if they use a lower resolution.
And PBS is getting how much?
Enough to make it worth their while. This has been going on for several years at this point. Probably several thousand, if not more, per month. Enough to help offset the transmitter power bill.
Or at least, as a taxpayer I should be getting a kickback
Uh... No. PBS member stations are not run be the federal government and in only a few states are they owned by the states. They are getting this money directly into their own operating fund. Tell me which state you are in and I can tell you if the PBS stations are owned by your state or not.
Then answere me this. What happens when interpretations of the Constitution change? What is constitutional one century may not be constitutional 100 years later and vice versa. This is even without amendments to the constitution being enacted. Laws that stood on the books for 200 years are overturned as unconstitutional and the judges admit they are interpreting the constitution in ways the original framers did not intend.
They were a brewing company. Perchance they were going to make... BEER?
Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America:
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
Passing or voting for an unconstitutional law is not treason.
To me it seems incompatible. Along with the Free Flow of Information part. If you want to protect peoples privacy, you make laws that restrict the dissemination of information about them. This information is immaterial, hence the laws about it would be elliminated under their platform. Additionaly, creating any law to restrict access to the information and protect the privacy would restrict the free flow of information.
They need to be more precise about what they want.
Ok, one thing I've noticed and I'm curious about in the console wars. How much have the consoles changed with each new version? Besides processing power and graphics, that's standard, I mean the gameplay and controls and other features.
The PS1, 2 and 3 are all using the same basic controller. The additions of a broadband adapter and hard drive are the only changes it seems.
On the Nintendo end, they have changed the controller every single time, trying to come up with a better interface it seems. The Wii continues this with the new controller, but also lets you keep the Gamecube controlelrs as well.
XBOX/360. I'm not sure if there are any changes between the two at all, I haven't paid much attention to it. THe main thing XBOX has is the talk feature for when you are in games. (although PS2 may have this as well) Also, the massive XBOX LIVE support.
Have some huge contraption made ready such that a huge explosion at some specific point can be used to set up potential energy reservoirs which then can be tapped slowly and efficiently. Now, explode anything, and now we do have a means to obtain energy from the same.
Here's a few links showing the explosions we've used. Some even involved fusion reactions.
image1
image2
image3
image4
image5
Who cares about 1/2 the file size w/ 4GB flash memory cards available all over the place?
Let see... I know a few people with high quality digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. I have one myself (and mine is a lower pixel count than most). My images on highest quality JPEG compression (one step short of RAW) are about 4MB. The only reason I, and the others, generaly do not use RAW is that it is 18MB/shot and would quickly fill up the cards. If we could get compressed RAW quality, we would. Yes, I do realize that this would pretty much only be useful to Pro and semi-Pros.
Now, as for websites, I can easily see this as being useful. Images take up most of the bandwidth for websites. If you could cut the size in half without reducing quality I can't think of anyone who wouldn't do so. Bandwidth costs money. Cutting the size down by half would cut costs.
WTC 7: http://www.infowars.com/print/Sept11/FDNY.htm
Quote: "In a stunning and belated development concerning the attacks of 9/11 Larry Silverstein, the controller of the destroyed WTC complex, stated plainly in a PBS documentary that he and the FDNY decided jointly to demolish the Solomon Bros. building, or WTC 7, late in the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001."
Back to the engines. Airplane engines are relatively fragile pieces of equipment and are full of fuel. Also, given that they are close to the body on a 757 Picture Here The hole made in the pentagon was bigger than the fuselage by a large amount. There was one hole and it makes sense that there was one hole. When objects crash into a building or wall, they do not leave nice clean carboard cutouts like in cartoons, they leave big gaping holes.
Here's moren formant.html /
http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking06/DrugI
http://www.preventgenocide.org/punish/extradition
Much as I think McKinnon is an idiot he should be tried and, if found guilty, punished in the UK: he stands some tiny chance of a fair trial here, along with a proportionate sentence.
A) Why should he be tried in a country where the crime did not take place?
B) Why do you think he won't get a fair trial in the US?
C) From the article "McKinnon faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine." How is that a disproportionate sentence?
Does the US ever ship anyone overseas for trial ?
Yes. http://seoul.usembassy.gov/december_24_2002.html
On a slightly more serious note. It seems like the price will kill the PS3 as a massive gaming platform. On the other hand, Sony may finally achieve their goal of having a home entertainment system. Dang, I'm going to miss the PS series. Best one so far for RPGs.
And so I return to my premise that it's time to nationalize the communications infrastructure in this country. Declare it an important national resource, vital to the safety and security of US citizens, and then take it away from these greedy pinheads. Create a department to oversee telecommunications infrastructure and force these companies to bid on maintenance contracts for the various regions of the country.
it was called Ma Bell (old AT&T). I've never heard of a service complaint with them from anyone. Then the DoJ went and broke them up.
What do you think would happen if Cox "blocked" Google. Do you think the vast majority of Cox users would care enough to switch ? Do you think they have the ability to switch ?
I live in the Washington DC area. Cox has been for several years the only broadband provider. With Verizon building out their Fiber network, we now have the option of DSL. So, ability to switch? YES!
What happens tomorrow if they decide to throttle back Gmail, and throttle up Hotmail ?
Anti-Trust lawsuit?
Users also, with certain exceptions like flat-rate phone service (which still doesn't include overseas calling), pay per actual usage of the service (i.e., per-minute phone rates or postage stamps). And in the case of stamps, you can pay more to get better service (overnight, 1st class v. Parcel Post, etc.)
Actually, bulk rate mail subsidizes first class mail to help keep the price down and consistent for all. It costs more to send a letter from LA to someone the middle of Kansas than it does from LA to DC. And yes, I do realize there is a request to increase the price of stamps coming up.
intendo has guaranteed that they will launch under $300, with speculation in the $200-$250 range. Nintendo will be able to clean MS and Sony's clocks based on price alone. Not even taking into account all the other great stuff (downloadable library,
... excuse me WII is because of that old library. I never owned a system until the pocket gameboy came out in '98 (had a computer instead). I want access to that library of games. First up, FF1.
We seem to be of one mind on this one. The lower garunteed price tag and the library of old Nintendo (and some SEGA) games is going to be interesting. The main reason I want a revolution
That sub $300 price point is going to be a key seller to, especially to people without a lot of disposable income. I'm betting on $250 myself. Any word on the starting price of the new games? $50? $60? $70? $80?