It makes no difference when you live in a land ruled by greens.
You really have to visit Germany to see the scale to which they apply the "green" mentality. I'm not saying it's all bad (in fact some of it is very good) but some things need a bit of effort to fully understand the pros and cons. Nuclear energy is one of those things - very easy to dismiss out of hand but the only sane choice if done right, ie. a difficult thing to sell to the common man.
Ironically enough, Germany is one of the few countries I'd trust to do it right. Everything they build there is done with one eye on quality of life, longevity and how it will effect future generations.
That sounds crazy but it might work in practice...put the simulator on the end of a long arm that can spin around (like one of those astronaut centrifuges we see on TV). When you go around a corner, spin it up.
Oh, wait, that only simulates turning left. Bummer.
From over here it seems like education in the USA has become a for-profit business with the result that they don't care what happens in the classroom, the only thing that counts is the number of people sitting in there. If this means all the courses are all gender studies and tarot cards then so be it - there's not enough theoretical physicist wannabes out there to fill up a classroom.
Point is that *NOTHING* about a digital cable can change some particular group of frequencies of the output. A digital cable can't possibly give you "more air" or a "warmer, more controlled bass" (as I've actually read in Audiophile magazines). It either gives you perfect sound or errors that the most cloth-eared nitwit can spot. There's no grey area.
PS: Don't forget to "break-in" your cables by playing music at full volume for 150 hours when new, and for another 10 hours or so every time you disconnect/reconnect them.
Patents on anything but actual hardware are fundamentally broken.
I disagree. There *are* some algorithms out there which are truly creative and non-obvious. They have as much right to be patented as any hardware.
When the USPTO needs is a bunch of in-house hackers and when somebody applies for a patent the test should be whether they can come up with a flowchart for the process in less than a couple of hours (using google is necessary).
At the moment they're accepting stuff which any decent programmer could have coded up and fully debugged in less than twenty minutes, eg. this. How these patents pass the 'non-obvious' test is a complete mystery. The people involved should be sacked.
Better choice: patents are non-transferrable except to heirs upon death. Patents may be licensed, but not sold.
That assumes that all inventions are done by men in sheds. Some patents actually require huge investment by venture capitalists, they're gonna want a return.
The problem with the patent system is that the USPTO will rubber stamp any old junk, no matter how obvious. Your 'solution' doesn't address that.
Since the second world war the USA has killed more people than Hitler, mostly in the name of politics. Hitler is reviled as one of the most evil people in history, the Americans get new Mustangs when they arrive home.
All we need now is for the judge to rule that the USPTO has to refund all filing fees, legal fees, and compensate everybody for wasting their time by issuing what they now admit was a junk patent.
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It makes no difference when you live in a land ruled by greens.
You really have to visit Germany to see the scale to which they apply the "green" mentality. I'm not saying it's all bad (in fact some of it is very good) but some things need a bit of effort to fully understand the pros and cons. Nuclear energy is one of those things - very easy to dismiss out of hand but the only sane choice if done right, ie. a difficult thing to sell to the common man.
Ironically enough, Germany is one of the few countries I'd trust to do it right. Everything they build there is done with one eye on quality of life, longevity and how it will effect future generations.
Why do people sign up? You can lead a pretty good rockstar lifestyle for a few years if you sign up with the RIAA, but:
a) It's not all S&D&R&R - expect a lot of mundane days, long hours, jetlag, etc.
b) The letdown when they move on to the next great thing can be hard.
c) There's a possibility that when it's all over you owe *them* money, not the other way around - keep one eye on the accounts!
I'd like to know that even with an up-to-date Windows system, the fucking thing is still vulnerable to these attacks.
You know how I know you don't know what type of attack they're talking about?
Why would it have a system to make ambulatory salesmanship more difficult?
A system which increases the torque needed to turn the crank would seem more useful...
That sounds crazy but it might work in practice...put the simulator on the end of a long arm that can spin around (like one of those astronaut centrifuges we see on TV). When you go around a corner, spin it up.
Oh, wait, that only simulates turning left. Bummer.
Shouldn't be too difficult - unless you corner so hard it feels like you're on a wall of death.
I want to know if they can do downhill freewheeling with a nice cooling breeze in your face. I could do that for hours...
Would a more expensive cable fix that problem...?
today, we buffer and reclock data. audio and video, same.
Yep. I've been in houses where I could hear the neighbor's TV with about a one second delay compared to the one I was watching.
From over here it seems like education in the USA has become a for-profit business with the result that they don't care what happens in the classroom, the only thing that counts is the number of people sitting in there. If this means all the courses are all gender studies and tarot cards then so be it - there's not enough theoretical physicist wannabes out there to fill up a classroom.
Tolerance training shouldn't have to last for the entire school day. Twenty minutes in the morning is sufficient.
The "red" is a red herring...
You can indeed get packet loss over HDMI and it *might* show up as red dots. I've seen something similar but with green dots.
The point is: Digital errors are obvious. There's nothing subtle going on that needs golden eyes/ears to be able to tell the difference.
Point is that *NOTHING* about a digital cable can change some particular group of frequencies of the output. A digital cable can't possibly give you "more air" or a "warmer, more controlled bass" (as I've actually read in Audiophile magazines). It either gives you perfect sound or errors that the most cloth-eared nitwit can spot. There's no grey area.
The thing about gold is ... it doesn't oxidize. The layers of oxide which form on copper/silver connectors *does* create electrical resistance.
The debate about how much a fraction of an ohm of resistance will degrade the "air" of your music is still open.
All HDMI cables should have a certification on the packet:
Category 1 - 720p or 1080i
Category 2 - 1080p
$30 is a complete rip-off for a normal length Category 2 cable.
These days it would have to be a *really* cheap-ass cable to only work at 720p.
PS: Don't forget to "break-in" your cables by playing music at full volume for 150 hours when new, and for another 10 hours or so every time you disconnect/reconnect them.
Only $499 for a CAT5 network cable? What a bunch of amateurs...there's people charging more than that for replacement volume knobs.
Just make sure you don't connect your golden cable backwards - the bass always sounds thin and reedy when the electrons are forced to flow 'uphill'.
You're saying Amazon gives away free money? I think you need to do a bit of research...
Patents on anything but actual hardware are fundamentally broken.
I disagree. There *are* some algorithms out there which are truly creative and non-obvious. They have as much right to be patented as any hardware.
When the USPTO needs is a bunch of in-house hackers and when somebody applies for a patent the test should be whether they can come up with a flowchart for the process in less than a couple of hours (using google is necessary).
At the moment they're accepting stuff which any decent programmer could have coded up and fully debugged in less than twenty minutes, eg. this. How these patents pass the 'non-obvious' test is a complete mystery. The people involved should be sacked.
Better choice: patents are non-transferrable except to heirs upon death. Patents may be licensed, but not sold.
That assumes that all inventions are done by men in sheds. Some patents actually require huge investment by venture capitalists, they're gonna want a return.
The problem with the patent system is that the USPTO will rubber stamp any old junk, no matter how obvious. Your 'solution' doesn't address that.
Since the second world war the USA has killed more people than Hitler, mostly in the name of politics. Hitler is reviled as one of the most evil people in history, the Americans get new Mustangs when they arrive home.
All we need now is for the judge to rule that the USPTO has to refund all filing fees, legal fees, and compensate everybody for wasting their time by issuing what they now admit was a junk patent.
When you get the hang of roundabouts we'll teach you how to use these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
The USA is just a bunch of NIMBYS. This thread is living proof.
Both opinions in TFA are right. The traffic flow, overall, is better but they also lead to many people not really knowing how to behave in them.
Um, people can learn....right?
If we never tried anything new because people don't know how to do it yet then we'd still be banging rocks together to make dinner.