The question is "Is this an instance in which the Shield Law(s) was meant to be applied".
Blogging as journalism is debatable. But it is protected under the first amendment. That part can not be in question. However, protecting sources that reveal confidential information, when there is no public (necessity/safety/whatever word you want in here) as in the case of the Pentagon Papers, Whistleblowing or otherthings, is what this case was really about.
That 50 hours is the other model (that is mentioned in the next sentence). the 70 hours is on a model that uses a single AAA, while the 50 is on a rechargeable model.
Ideal distance (to see picture at best quality) for SD is 5 times the height.
Ideal distance (for human comfort as tested by the japanese in the 60/70s) for SD is 4 times the height.
Equivalent distance for US-HD when compared to that of US-SD is 3 times the height.
I base the 4 times the height on human comfort rather than equivalent viewing quality of SD vs HD.
The problem with AM is two fold. First, the wavelengths are much longer, so the small antennas can't pick them up as well. Second, AM has to have the amplitude of the signal preserved perfectly during amplification or you get distortion in the audio quality. In FM you can distort the hell out of the original signal, you just care about the fruency it is at. This makes AM tuners harder to implement than FM tuners.
It's more a problem of the technology behind AM than anything else. Not that they don't want to implement it.
A 70 hour battery life on a AAA? A 3 minute quick charge that lasts 3 hours and at max charge 50? These are things that some people look for and can use. Those are insane battery life spans for something like this will be a real selling point. The IPod Shuffle only offers up to 12 hours at most currently. I can't remember how many times I've tried to turn on my MP3 player only to find it was dead, having forgoten to put it on the charger or replace the battery. With lifespans like these, one would only need to recharge once a week in most cases, vs. once every day or two for the shuffle.
Now all we need to do is find out if the audio quality is just as good.
Interestingly enough, two of those three make me want to go for DLP or DLA over LCD as well (I'd never get a Plasma, just putting it out there). LCD burn in is possible and does happen. LCD pixels weaken over time and die or get turned permanently on. LCD and Plasma both still have problems, which is why I will be going with rear projection at some point.
I mean, jesus, its a file system, not a damn search engine.
Quote from MS on WinFS: One of the monumental problems organizations face today is aggregating information that's stored in disparate formats. Knowledge workers have long wanted to be able to search for content independent of format. WinFS allows the user to perform searches based on the metadata of the stored item, regardless of what type of file it is or which application created it.
So not only is it a file system, it is also a search engine.
Was using "End of Days" cause thats what we had available on DVHS. It also has some pretty good effects that show off the technology in HD. Kind of like using Star Wars to show off the special effects and cause "It makes the TV look Gooood". Here's a link to some that are available.
Right now I'd say that DVHS is about where VCRs were when they were still new. But when the HD DVD recorders come out, they're probably going to get blown away.
I work at a TV newtwork. A couple of the other engineers/techs there have purchased a few of these for home usage. They wanted a cheap way of recording HDTV currently. When the HD-DVD recorders come out, they may buy one of them. But in the mean time, they are using one of these.
I just saw them friday. The HD tapes video quality looks wonderful on an HD screen. "End of Days" looked great. Plus, you can record up to 35 hours of SD video to it (analog or digital SD) for those of us still on analog.
The heads of six major Video Game Companies testified before Congress that there are "hundreds" of studies that disprove the link. All the health care organizations have are studies paid for by them, which are geared to find the opposite result. Lawyers call such experts "whores."
Shall we insert something on another controversial topic here and continue to use the default template or shall we find a new way to disprove the opposition.
1280x720 is not 1920x1080. And since we're talking projection TVs, the size limitations of tubes are largely irrelevant anyway. I'll take the higher resolution of the tube, thank you.
That's 1280x720P vs 1920x1080I. There is a big difference between the effect of Interlaced and Progressive. They also make 1080i non-tube monitors.
Ah, was thinking about this and just figured out how to compare the cost of living in the USA. The Military has an adjustment for paychecks that get applied based on their cost of living index. It is higher in various areas than others such as New York (city), the Washington DC area, California and some others. In Hawaii, it is also up there. However, one thing with Hawaii is that they really can't keep up with the prices so the encourage/require everyone to live on base.
you don't see school boards or education departments in Europe or Japan watering down science curriculums to please some obnoxious pig-ignorant religious fanatics, which happens all the damn time in the US.
Aside from the monkey trial from the 30's(?) and the sticker on the alabama books, I have heard nothing about any religious groups doing anything to science. Much less the dumming down part. Please provide references for this.
Oh yes, in response to your sig: Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a life time.
Current fraud laws [probably] require someone arleady defrauded to come forward and press charges. This would allow for the cops to go after them just for the fraud scheme itself without any victims having come forward yet.
Actually in most European countries, state-run schools are required to take all local students unless there are extraordinary circumstances (e.g. exclusion due to prior explusion or criminal behaviour).
As I have heard from my German Language teacher (who is German) many european coutnries are required to accept everyone at the elementary level, but then start filtering students out at teh junior high (Secondary) and high school (primary) level. I would like to hear more, with specific countries referenced if you post again.
Also, interesting point you bring up on the prior expulsion/criminal behavior. In the USA it is almost impossible (due to some courts) to expel a student. Students have asaulted teachers and the parents have sued to keep them in the schools and won (yes, I know it is messed up, I would love to have it changed).
Don't forget that in the USA, public schools HAVE to take ALL students that want in. In most European countries (notably Germany), the schools don't have to take you if you don't get at elast a certain grade on tests. Essentially filtering out those who would drag down the scores to begin with. The USA doesn't do this, hence the score are lower.
Hawaii is going to be a really expensive place to move to with one of the highest costs of living in the country. Unless you can garuntee yourself a decent paying job and housing you don't want to move there to start off.
Movietheater Film is stored on reals that last generally up to 10 minutes. Any longer than that and the reals get too big/heavy. So, 2.4 hours per real at 1 fpsand they can all be done in parallel. I personally would suspect that they take longer than 1 second to scan in though, the amount of info to be transfered if nothing else would be tremendous (~45 megabytes per frame?).
No, but it does mean that state attorneys general have spent the last few years suing tobacco companies for, among other things, the retail sales of cigarettes to minors.
Sorry, thought you were implying that teh state AGs were behind the lawsuit, not suppliers being held liable for what retailers are doing. This makes more sense now.
How much did Bushmaster pay out for not riding herd on the gun dealer whose inventory was apparently stolen to arm the DC snipers?
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The question is not "Is blogging Journalism".
The question is "Is this an instance in which the Shield Law(s) was meant to be applied".
Blogging as journalism is debatable. But it is protected under the first amendment. That part can not be in question. However, protecting sources that reveal confidential information, when there is no public (necessity/safety/whatever word you want in here) as in the case of the Pentagon Papers, Whistleblowing or otherthings, is what this case was really about.
That 50 hours is the other model (that is mentioned in the next sentence). the 70 hours is on a model that uses a single AAA, while the 50 is on a rechargeable model.
Ideal distance (to see picture at best quality) for SD is 5 times the height.
Ideal distance (for human comfort as tested by the japanese in the 60/70s) for SD is 4 times the height.
Equivalent distance for US-HD when compared to that of US-SD is 3 times the height.
I base the 4 times the height on human comfort rather than equivalent viewing quality of SD vs HD.
The problem with AM is two fold. First, the wavelengths are much longer, so the small antennas can't pick them up as well. Second, AM has to have the amplitude of the signal preserved perfectly during amplification or you get distortion in the audio quality. In FM you can distort the hell out of the original signal, you just care about the fruency it is at. This makes AM tuners harder to implement than FM tuners.
It's more a problem of the technology behind AM than anything else. Not that they don't want to implement it.
A 70 hour battery life on a AAA? A 3 minute quick charge that lasts 3 hours and at max charge 50? These are things that some people look for and can use. Those are insane battery life spans for something like this will be a real selling point. The IPod Shuffle only offers up to 12 hours at most currently. I can't remember how many times I've tried to turn on my MP3 player only to find it was dead, having forgoten to put it on the charger or replace the battery. With lifespans like these, one would only need to recharge once a week in most cases, vs. once every day or two for the shuffle.
Now all we need to do is find out if the audio quality is just as good.
That distance would be ~200" (4 times the screen height). That's a bit over 16.5' or 5 meters.
Interestingly enough, two of those three make me want to go for DLP or DLA over LCD as well (I'd never get a Plasma, just putting it out there). LCD burn in is possible and does happen. LCD pixels weaken over time and die or get turned permanently on. LCD and Plasma both still have problems, which is why I will be going with rear projection at some point.
82" is nice and all, but I'd rather have their 102" Plasma"
I mean, jesus, its a file system, not a damn search engine.
Quote from MS on WinFS:
One of the monumental problems organizations face today is aggregating information that's stored in disparate formats. Knowledge workers have long wanted to be able to search for content independent of format. WinFS allows the user to perform searches based on the metadata of the stored item, regardless of what type of file it is or which application created it.
So not only is it a file system, it is also a search engine.
Source:http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/winfs/
Was using "End of Days" cause thats what we had available on DVHS. It also has some pretty good effects that show off the technology in HD. Kind of like using Star Wars to show off the special effects and cause "It makes the TV look Gooood". Here's a link to some that are available.
Right now I'd say that DVHS is about where VCRs were when they were still new. But when the HD DVD recorders come out, they're probably going to get blown away.
I work at a TV newtwork. A couple of the other engineers/techs there have purchased a few of these for home usage. They wanted a cheap way of recording HDTV currently. When the HD-DVD recorders come out, they may buy one of them. But in the mean time, they are using one of these.
I just saw them friday. The HD tapes video quality looks wonderful on an HD screen. "End of Days" looked great. Plus, you can record up to 35 hours of SD video to it (analog or digital SD) for those of us still on analog.
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The heads of six major Video Game Companies testified before Congress that there are "hundreds" of studies that disprove the link. All the health care organizations have are studies paid for by them, which are geared to find the opposite result. Lawyers call such experts "whores."
Shall we insert something on another controversial topic here and continue to use the default template or shall we find a new way to disprove the opposition.
Reading your post is like reading a Tom Clancy book. Long on tooth and known to most people with common sense.
and known to most people with common sense
Hence why it is not widely known.
I am pretty sure that the US Navy is attempting to plot a course to the Austrian coast for one if its battleships in an intimidation attempt. ;-)
Battleships? The last USN battleship was decomissioned years ago.
1280x720 is not 1920x1080. And since we're talking projection TVs, the size limitations of tubes are largely irrelevant anyway. I'll take the higher resolution of the tube, thank you.
That's 1280x720 P vs 1920x1080 I . There is a big difference between the effect of Interlaced and Progressive. They also make 1080i non-tube monitors.
Ah, was thinking about this and just figured out how to compare the cost of living in the USA. The Military has an adjustment for paychecks that get applied based on their cost of living index. It is higher in various areas than others such as New York (city), the Washington DC area, California and some others. In Hawaii, it is also up there. However, one thing with Hawaii is that they really can't keep up with the prices so the encourage/require everyone to live on base.
you don't see school boards or education departments in Europe or Japan watering down science curriculums to please some obnoxious pig-ignorant religious fanatics, which happens all the damn time in the US.
Aside from the monkey trial from the 30's(?) and the sticker on the alabama books, I have heard nothing about any religious groups doing anything to science. Much less the dumming down part. Please provide references for this.
Oh yes, in response to your sig: Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a life time.
Current fraud laws [probably] require someone arleady defrauded to come forward and press charges. This would allow for the cops to go after them just for the fraud scheme itself without any victims having come forward yet.
The second thing you find out is that there is no way to do anything about their perceived illegal activities.
Tell that to the guys who deface and DDoS the RIAA web servers. All we need to do is set up our own equivalent to take them down a pwn them.
Actually in most European countries, state-run schools are required to take all local students unless there are extraordinary circumstances (e.g. exclusion due to prior explusion or criminal behaviour).
As I have heard from my German Language teacher (who is German) many european coutnries are required to accept everyone at the elementary level, but then start filtering students out at teh junior high (Secondary) and high school (primary) level. I would like to hear more, with specific countries referenced if you post again.
Also, interesting point you bring up on the prior expulsion/criminal behavior. In the USA it is almost impossible (due to some courts) to expel a student. Students have asaulted teachers and the parents have sued to keep them in the schools and won (yes, I know it is messed up, I would love to have it changed).
Don't forget that in the USA, public schools HAVE to take ALL students that want in. In most European countries (notably Germany), the schools don't have to take you if you don't get at elast a certain grade on tests. Essentially filtering out those who would drag down the scores to begin with. The USA doesn't do this, hence the score are lower.
Hawaii is going to be a really expensive place to move to with one of the highest costs of living in the country. Unless you can garuntee yourself a decent paying job and housing you don't want to move there to start off.
Movietheater Film is stored on reals that last generally up to 10 minutes. Any longer than that and the reals get too big/heavy. So, 2.4 hours per real at 1 fpsand they can all be done in parallel. I personally would suspect that they take longer than 1 second to scan in though, the amount of info to be transfered if nothing else would be tremendous (~45 megabytes per frame?).
No, but it does mean that state attorneys general have spent the last few years suing tobacco companies for, among other things, the retail sales of cigarettes to minors.
Sorry, thought you were implying that teh state AGs were behind the lawsuit, not suppliers being held liable for what retailers are doing. This makes more sense now.
How much did Bushmaster pay out for not riding herd on the gun dealer whose inventory was apparently stolen to arm the DC snipers?
Couple million, very good point.