This is because they are all wide screen instead of 4x3, so the diagonal measurements used on these new screens exaggerate their size. 42" plasma screens roughly equate to a 27" normal CRT.
(never mind the fact most broadcasts are still 4x3 and get "squished" because most of these TV's are pieces of *explative deleted*)
Truly, I wouldn't consider the human race to be intelligent until we decide to look around us for answers based on available evidence. I know we do some of this already, but way too many of us are willing to just simply "believe" what we're told by others who don't really know either.
The sum of human knowledge is too great for us to consume in one lifetime while also sustaining ourselves.
To do this would be to sentence our species to stagnation.
then express your intolerance and make a hypocritical ass of yourself.
If people are not allowed to be disgusted at intolerance, than exactly how is it to be mitigated or eliminated?
Maybe I should just continue serendipitously skipping as the poor, the people of color, the people with opposing political views to the conservative machines are targeted and persecuted merely for wanting to live their lives the way they wish?
Liberals don't engage in such agendas. The ONLY thing they limit is behaviors which interfere with the lives of others.
Unless of course you consider money to be "just as important" as basic liberties, food, shelter, and medicine.
"Oh god, don't tax me a tiny portion of my income to assure my fellow man doesn't starve, exposed to the elements, just because insurance companies won't cover his pre-existing condition"
How much does the university pay for all kinds of other legal compliance? How many lawyers on staff?
There's no doubt this is a ridiculous compliance issue. But the average slashdot reader continues to buy new DVD's and pay absurd monthly video content fees that directly support the RIAA. Dog forbid I mention watching less television or consuming fewer media conglomerate products.
Please explain to me why, then, they can't put one of their retained lawyers on p2p notice compliance, and NOT spend 100k removing student's right to their own free will on the internet?
Colleges are put in the very uncomfortable position of ISP for their residential students.
and they should behave like an ISP and stop filtering crap for unrelated corporate interests.
Just follow the law and provide information if served with proper papers, and let the students *gasp*, make their own choices and take responsibility for them.
I would agree that a University could simply subscribe to a service like Ruckus to tempt students away from using P2P. But then what about movies? What about Software?
Corporations with interest in those pieces of IP will still have a complaint. Maybe from a risk P.O.V 100k is cheap. I don't know. I'm not a friggin ichioligist or whatever thinks about profit v. risk.
Oh, what about legitimate P2P uses? I guess screw them. No one has to fear abusing or losing legitimacy.
Or they could give people the right to exercise their own moral prerogatives. I mean, it's not as if universities should be open bastions of free thought, or anything.
Explain to me why anyone should pay housing fees just to be censored by completely unrelated corporate interests.
If they want to sue students, hand over the information under the DMCA, and no more liability exists. Simple really.
They do have predictive powers. They predicted a decade ago the trend in markedly increased storm severity and frequency.
They predicted the droughts and climate changes which are afflicting numerous regions world wide, including france, spain, and my area of the US.
The issue with global warming is we know that the current models show this forward feedback, but we KNOW that the models are incomplete
This statement is intellectually dishonest
we also know the model of the universe (including most of our scientific theory) is incomplete. This doesn't stop us from applying the current model to everything from the production of your computer to nuclear power/weapons to deep space exploration.
Increased heat -> increased CO2 and there is no way of stopping it is the stranger claim
and this is still considered a fringe theory among the vast majority (real scientists rather than those charted by oil companies to "sow controversy") who believe in global warming.
Numerous independent climatology models (we're talking virtually every accredited university and think tank on earth with enough resources) based on hundreds of thousands of years of data from geological, oceanographic, and ice core samples, run through supercomputers millions of times.
The only ones that "disagree" are tied to oil companies.
Now please go back to your provincial life, hating and stepping upon the freedom of other individuals because you think your limited morality should apply to them.
MMP failed in Ontario because it was poorly explained to voters, That and the referendum question was unclear. Also it was not full MMP, but a hybrid where the province would add additional MP's on top of the ridings based on the percentage of popular vote. These MP's would be declared on a list prior to the election, however they could also run in a riding, so a party could protect ministers who were defeated in their riding, but end up sitting as an MMP member. MMP members also would not be accountable to any riding. This is a worse system the the current first past the post system
I see why it died. I've seen infinite set and graph theory less complicated.
On the contrary, I do think Moller is on the right track.
Is prototypes work, and work well. They're too expensive right now, but they have the range, safety, and power necessary. The government just has no structure to deal with it, and the FAA is far too rigid and geared toward a completely different paradigm.
The crucial difference between moller's models and concepts like this is he doesn't try to work off either an automobile or aircraft chassis.
He's developed his own, unique system.
It is not roadworthy, but it's quite skyworthy, and designed well for its purpose.
This report reminds me of the many videos of people donning various winglike arm attachments and diving off platforms or tall structures to disastrous results.
This concept is not new. Everyone's been developing their own "car-o-plane" for ages. I'd be very surprised if this one goes anywhere beyond the previous ones
The constitution was designed to protect MINORITIES.
These people are being disenfranchised. Their representative numbers are considerable, even if the activity is not "pervasive" (rather arbitrary designation).
I hope this happens to you, and your bags show up divested of all valuables. Of course, you don't care about tyranny until they come for you.
Scientific consensus in any field is reached by research, which is then published and subsequently challenged by other scientists.
At the point of initial research, the idea being tested is merely a hypothesis, otherwise known as "educated conjecture".
In the case of medicine, there are numerous uncontrollable variables which lead to a high degree of error in small case studies. (the placebo effect, environmental factors, the variable resilience of each patient, etc)
Global warming does not fall under this. It has been researched, and retested, and re-challenged numerous times. The resulting climate change predictions are presented in confidence intervals, and the usual results brought to policy makers are conservative figures from the lower third of that interval, which are still quite scary.
Capitalism worked for two hundred years, but times change, and systems become corrupt.
This is why we moved to a mixed economy in the 39's. Unfortunately, we have yet to find a method to prevent regulatory capture..
while at the same time creating rewards great enough to attract the best and brightest minds to serve in government roles without having to rely on corruption to further their interests or lifestyles.
Being "bright" does not necessarily mean a morality which serves the common man.
Part of the common man's distrust intellectuals stems from the abuse suffered at the hands of those who are exceedingly intelligent, and have concluded the narcissistic teachings of machiavelli were the most correct.
This forum could be similar to the one used to create the operating system, Linux, which competes with Microsoftâ(TM)s near monopoly
I disagree on this regard.
Linux is a meritocracy because those who participate in it agree on most issues.
This would not fly in government.
The questions are: Who decides what constitutes "merit" in this meritocracy? If this is to be decided by popular vote, what is to prevent mob rule?
I propose something different. We did pretty well nurturing a prosperous middle class when we had a proper mixed economy, why not have a mixed government too? Representative democracy for social issues. Direct democracy for the formation of regulation (with laws to prevent corporate power from engaging in massively asymmetric media blitzes)
I'll continue mulling over this. Who knows, it may be enough material for a book.
A month or so prior to their itunes store launch, a patch mysteriously removed internet streaming for user playlists.
They could easily have designed "fairplay" to simply not allow this feature on protected tracks, but they completely removed it.
My friend used to serve web radio streams to small channels of 30 or fewer from itunes. It took 6 months for something comparable to show up on macupdate.
Then.. there's the utter gutting of imovie.
They dumbed it down to the point that it may as well be integrated into quicktime pro and scratched as a separate app.
Meanwhile, services have arisen which would have made excellent use of the old imovie.
Apple made some token updates and made it available from their site, but it has not been maintained for quite some time, and frequently crashes as you chop an audio clip beyond 30 pieces.
200 bucks more for something with more features (and clutter) than you want for basic video editing, or a clone of quicktime pro with a different, more kludgy interface which can't do more than rudimentary splicing for youtube vids.
Thanks apple. The least that could be done is to open source imovie hd 6 since they're clearly not interested in maintaining it anymore, and they don't charge for it on their site.
No, not even close. That's just laughably wrong. Chrysler's HEMI engines are made in Salinas Mexico but you'll find the 6's and 4's are both made in Detroit.
Nope, sorry.
the chrysler crossfire uses the same power plant and base chassis as the mercedes CLK, assembled IN GERMANY.
The daimler takeover resulted in a great many of their lines incorporating german power trains.
That's a self serving lie. You aren't forced to do anything. There's nothing that stops you from walking into a GM, being a real American, and buying an American car.
Yes, I am forced to do so. Compensation has been frozen for 10 years, while inflation has pushed the CPI up 30%.
This results in domestic products being out of reach.
Don't claim this vindicates your point on globalism either, because globalism is to BLAME for that situation.
Until you raise trade barriers with nations which allow american based multinationals to push labor into the ground, this will continue to be the case.
The common man is screwed and choiceless in this situation, the government must act if it is to be reversed.
Once again, my position and purchasing habits are not hypocritical.
Since there's no way that these intangibles can ever be measured..
What are you talking about?
Don't you know the recording, software, and film industries lose hundreds of billions of trillions of dollars a year to p2p piracy?!!
These things CAN be measured.. why just recently the chairman of the fed said a mere 700 billion dollars would fill the potholes in our credit industry!
(for the million/whooshes about to happen../sarcasm)
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This is because they are all wide screen instead of 4x3, so the diagonal measurements used on these new screens exaggerate their size. 42" plasma screens roughly equate to a 27" normal CRT.
(never mind the fact most broadcasts are still 4x3 and get "squished" because most of these TV's are pieces of *explative deleted*)
recent calculations show our radio signals become weak to the point of blending into cosmic noise within a few light years.
The free market is actually coming up with solutions?
No.
The fact this trend happening in consumer electronics is a boon to a straining power industry is an accident. (No, i'm not being sarcastic).
These companies have other, more important reasons for developing higher performance per watt.
The trend in computing is increasingly toward notebook ownership. Notebook battery life is increased by lower power consumption.
LCD displays also eat a lot of computer battery power.
It is in the best interest of the panel makers (whose panels end up in both TVs AND Computers) to increase the energy efficiency of their panels.
Flat panel tv's also benefit from this lower power consumption, which also serves as an excellent marketing angle for "those thrifty tree huggers".
Or, of course, we could just be so primitive that radio is to them what semaphore flags are to us.
Truly, I wouldn't consider the human race to be intelligent until we decide to look around us for answers based on available evidence. I know we do some of this already, but way too many of us are willing to just simply "believe" what we're told by others who don't really know either.
The sum of human knowledge is too great for us to consume in one lifetime while also sustaining ourselves.
To do this would be to sentence our species to stagnation.
Trust must be placed in experts because of this.
Um, stipulating that people around the world are generally liberal, if true, means there would be no bias as it would actually be representative.
And your definition of liberal is crafted out of thion air, wrong, and ridiculous.
Nice try at a troll though.
Go back to the canada election results linked off this story.
Notice the conservatives are still a MINORITY government.
In the US, 60% of the population tests highly liberal once the "bad word" faux-news created was removed from the survey.
Most of them vote none of the above (stay home) because nobody represents them.
then express your intolerance and make a hypocritical ass of yourself.
If people are not allowed to be disgusted at intolerance, than exactly how is it to be mitigated or eliminated?
Maybe I should just continue serendipitously skipping as the poor, the people of color, the people with opposing political views to the conservative machines are targeted and persecuted merely for wanting to live their lives the way they wish?
Liberals don't engage in such agendas. The ONLY thing they limit is behaviors which interfere with the lives of others.
Unless of course you consider money to be "just as important" as basic liberties, food, shelter, and medicine.
"Oh god, don't tax me a tiny portion of my income to assure my fellow man doesn't starve, exposed to the elements, just because insurance companies won't cover his pre-existing condition"
Reality check: this is peanuts.
How much does the university pay for all kinds of other legal compliance? How many lawyers on staff?
There's no doubt this is a ridiculous compliance issue. But the average slashdot reader continues to buy new DVD's and pay absurd monthly video content fees that directly support the RIAA. Dog forbid I mention watching less television or consuming fewer media conglomerate products.
Please explain to me why, then, they can't put one of their retained lawyers on p2p notice compliance, and NOT spend 100k removing student's right to their own free will on the internet?
Colleges are put in the very uncomfortable position of ISP for their residential students.
and they should behave like an ISP and stop filtering crap for unrelated corporate interests.
Just follow the law and provide information if served with proper papers, and let the students *gasp*, make their own choices and take responsibility for them.
I would agree that a University could simply subscribe to a service like Ruckus to tempt students away from using P2P. But then what about movies? What about Software?
Corporations with interest in those pieces of IP will still have a complaint. Maybe from a risk P.O.V 100k is cheap. I don't know. I'm not a friggin ichioligist or whatever thinks about profit v. risk.
Oh, what about legitimate P2P uses? I guess screw them. No one has to fear abusing or losing legitimacy.
Or they could give people the right to exercise their own moral prerogatives. I mean, it's not as if universities should be open bastions of free thought, or anything.
Explain to me why anyone should pay housing fees just to be censored by completely unrelated corporate interests.
If they want to sue students, hand over the information under the DMCA, and no more liability exists. Simple really.
This crap takes "in loco parentis" too far.
until Harper gets run over by a moose
what an excellent Idea.
I'll buy the tranq gun and hop a plane to BC, you bring the horse trailer, and we'll go find some bulls.
Make sure to release them when he's in a sparse crowd in rutting season.
They do have predictive powers. They predicted a decade ago the trend in markedly increased storm severity and frequency.
They predicted the droughts and climate changes which are afflicting numerous regions world wide, including france, spain, and my area of the US.
The issue with global warming is we know that the current models show this forward feedback, but we KNOW that the models are incomplete
This statement is intellectually dishonest
we also know the model of the universe (including most of our scientific theory) is incomplete. This doesn't stop us from applying the current model to everything from the production of your computer to nuclear power/weapons to deep space exploration.
Increased heat -> increased CO2 and there is no way of stopping it is the stranger claim
and this is still considered a fringe theory among the vast majority (real scientists rather than those charted by oil companies to "sow controversy") who believe in global warming.
All or nothing is not how science works.
yes you can.
Numerous independent climatology models (we're talking virtually every accredited university and think tank on earth with enough resources) based on hundreds of thousands of years of data from geological, oceanographic, and ice core samples, run through supercomputers millions of times.
The only ones that "disagree" are tied to oil companies.
Let me know when slashdot governs you.
Tied? We'll be tied when you have to live shoulder to shoulder with the people your party disenfranchises every minute of every day.
Viva the police state.
See title.
Now please go back to your provincial life, hating and stepping upon the freedom of other individuals because you think your limited morality should apply to them.
MMP failed in Ontario because it was poorly explained to voters, That and the referendum question was unclear. Also it was not full MMP, but a hybrid where the province would add additional MP's on top of the ridings based on the percentage of popular vote. These MP's would be declared on a list prior to the election, however they could also run in a riding, so a party could protect ministers who were defeated in their riding, but end up sitting as an MMP member. MMP members also would not be accountable to any riding. This is a worse system the the current first past the post system
I see why it died. I've seen infinite set and graph theory less complicated.
Can I have a flow chart to clarify this please?
On the contrary, I do think Moller is on the right track.
Is prototypes work, and work well. They're too expensive right now, but they have the range, safety, and power necessary. The government just has no structure to deal with it, and the FAA is far too rigid and geared toward a completely different paradigm.
The crucial difference between moller's models and concepts like this is he doesn't try to work off either an automobile or aircraft chassis.
He's developed his own, unique system.
It is not roadworthy, but it's quite skyworthy, and designed well for its purpose.
This report reminds me of the many videos of people donning various winglike arm attachments and diving off platforms or tall structures to disastrous results.
This concept is not new. Everyone's been developing their own "car-o-plane" for ages. I'd be very surprised if this one goes anywhere beyond the previous ones
The constitution was designed to protect MINORITIES.
These people are being disenfranchised. Their representative numbers are considerable, even if the activity is not "pervasive" (rather arbitrary designation).
I hope this happens to you, and your bags show up divested of all valuables. Of course, you don't care about tyranny until they come for you.
His study merely observes the obvious.
Scientific consensus in any field is reached by research, which is then published and subsequently challenged by other scientists.
At the point of initial research, the idea being tested is merely a hypothesis, otherwise known as "educated conjecture".
In the case of medicine, there are numerous uncontrollable variables which lead to a high degree of error in small case studies. (the placebo effect, environmental factors, the variable resilience of each patient, etc)
Global warming does not fall under this. It has been researched, and retested, and re-challenged numerous times. The resulting climate change predictions are presented in confidence intervals, and the usual results brought to policy makers are conservative figures from the lower third of that interval, which are still quite scary.
Capitalism worked for two hundred years, but times change, and systems become corrupt.
This is why we moved to a mixed economy in the 39's. Unfortunately, we have yet to find a method to prevent regulatory capture..
while at the same time creating rewards great enough to attract the best and brightest minds to serve in government roles without having to rely on corruption to further their interests or lifestyles.
Being "bright" does not necessarily mean a morality which serves the common man.
Part of the common man's distrust intellectuals stems from the abuse suffered at the hands of those who are exceedingly intelligent, and have concluded the narcissistic teachings of machiavelli were the most correct.
This forum could be similar to the one used to create the operating system, Linux, which competes with Microsoftâ(TM)s near monopoly
I disagree on this regard.
Linux is a meritocracy because those who participate in it agree on most issues.
This would not fly in government.
The questions are:
Who decides what constitutes "merit" in this meritocracy?
If this is to be decided by popular vote, what is to prevent mob rule?
I propose something different.
We did pretty well nurturing a prosperous middle class when we had a proper mixed economy, why not have a mixed government too?
Representative democracy for social issues.
Direct democracy for the formation of regulation (with laws to prevent corporate power from engaging in massively asymmetric media blitzes)
I'll continue mulling over this. Who knows, it may be enough material for a book.
A month or so prior to their itunes store launch, a patch mysteriously removed internet streaming for user playlists.
They could easily have designed "fairplay" to simply not allow this feature on protected tracks, but they completely removed it.
My friend used to serve web radio streams to small channels of 30 or fewer from itunes. It took 6 months for something comparable to show up on macupdate.
Then.. there's the utter gutting of imovie.
They dumbed it down to the point that it may as well be integrated into quicktime pro and scratched as a separate app.
Meanwhile, services have arisen which would have made excellent use of the old imovie.
Apple made some token updates and made it available from their site, but it has not been maintained for quite some time, and frequently crashes as you chop an audio clip beyond 30 pieces.
The closest thing that can replace it? Final cut express
200 bucks more for something with more features (and clutter) than you want for basic video editing, or a clone of quicktime pro with a different, more kludgy interface which can't do more than rudimentary splicing for youtube vids.
Thanks apple. The least that could be done is to open source imovie hd 6 since they're clearly not interested in maintaining it anymore, and they don't charge for it on their site.
No, not even close. That's just laughably wrong. Chrysler's HEMI engines are made in Salinas Mexico but you'll find the 6's and 4's are both made in Detroit.
Nope, sorry.
the chrysler crossfire uses the same power plant and base chassis as the mercedes CLK, assembled IN GERMANY.
The daimler takeover resulted in a great many of their lines incorporating german power trains.
That's a self serving lie. You aren't forced to do anything. There's nothing that stops you from walking into a GM, being a real American, and buying an American car.
Yes, I am forced to do so. Compensation has been frozen for 10 years, while inflation has pushed the CPI up 30%.
This results in domestic products being out of reach.
Don't claim this vindicates your point on globalism either, because globalism is to BLAME for that situation.
Until you raise trade barriers with nations which allow american based multinationals to push labor into the ground, this will continue to be the case.
The common man is screwed and choiceless in this situation, the government must act if it is to be reversed.
Once again, my position and purchasing habits are not hypocritical.
Since there's no way that these intangibles can ever be measured..
What are you talking about?
Don't you know the recording, software, and film industries lose hundreds of billions of trillions of dollars a year to p2p piracy?!!
These things CAN be measured.. why just recently the chairman of the fed said a mere 700 billion dollars would fill the potholes in our credit industry!
(for the million /whooshes about to happen .. /sarcasm)
it's part of their two-pronged attack against child exploitation.
They will watch you cyber to assure there are no children involved, but assure protections so others don't watch you cyber.
I hope your fetishes involve spectators : )