Government got involved just enough to make HDTV a collosal failure.
Indeed.
The true stupidity was not having greater involvement from the computer industry. Computers were getting pretty popular around the time these standards were being developed. The smart thing to do would be to leverage computer technology and the need for hi-res monitors to jump-start digital TV, by making the standard compatible with computers. Instead, the highest progressive resolution in real use is 480p. Maybe that'll satisfy folks with poor vision but not the rest of us.
That is why one typically uses glasses with accurately sync'ed shutters
The problem with shutters is that you need to double the effective frame rate. Thus for 60 FPS you need 120 FPS visible on your monitor, which is a pretty high rate, and your video card needs to generate frames twice as fast. LCD shutters also have at least some bleed-through (one eye seeing something from images meant for the other eye), don't they?
I don't know of any 3-D imaging system that's truly issue-free. HMDs require you to focus fairly closely, and don't have a high-enough resolution. The various red-blue, shutter, and polarization schemes tend to have polarization. DTI3D's monitor requires you to keep your head fairly still.
And how many innocent humans in Afghanistan have died to appease the American's disgusting need for vengeance.
Hard to tell for sure, but on the other hand it is claimed that many thousands have been saved from starvation in that country due to incoming aid. It's quite possible that it's a substantial net reduction in total Afghani deaths, not to mention the elimination of an awful, repressive regime. It is to be hoped we can do for Afghanistan what we did for Japan and Western Europe after WWII.
And just to add to that, they'd had the '93 bombing to stimulate them to upgrade the facitilities in that very building, and it has been stated that those improvements almost certainly saved many lives.
If you absolutely don't want a building to come down due to an impact of a 747, build it underground.
A pyramid structure with a solid core probably would also survive such an impact. However, it uses a whole lot more acreage, so as long as you want densely packed cities, they aren't an option.
I for one have been using Mozilla for quite a while. I'll occasionally run IE to view a site Mo won't handle, but that's typically only once every couple of days. Mozilla hasn't crashed for me in several weeks, although recently (0.9.9?) I've had a problem where it suddenly "forgets" how to browse. Shutting down and restarting fixes it though.
I don't know, but I would like to see scrollbars that look different if scrolled all the way to one end or the other. As is, I have some apps where I've been deceived into thinking I'm at the top of the data, when there's a tiny bit more that turns out to be important.
Even if they don't contribute a line of code, they will report bugs, and they will buy support contracts from companies like Red Hat which do contribute code. Their employees may submit fixes simply for their convenience in not having to maintain the fix. Their purchases of Linux-supported hardware will influence manufacturers to upgrade their Linux support.
It's really hard for a user not to end up helping.
PigleT, while your comparison seems legitimate, it really isn't; most people who use computers these days are familiar with the Windows world and the Microsoft way of doing things.
Or, if they aren't, they know someone who does have some understanding of Windows configuration.
I think ultimately Linux has the better potential scheme, with better possibilities for automation, etc., because it's a forethought rather than an afterthought. But I think it's also capable of supporting the naive user better, and I would like to see it do so.
My hand isn't raised about Andersonville Georgia (time for a Google search).
It was a Confederate prison during the American Civil War. A significant percentage of the POWs died of deprivation and disease, and it has gained a reputation as the worst prison camp of the war. This reputation may be undeserved, as a similar situation was true of other Confederate and Union prison camps, or indeed any situation where large groups of men lived together with poor sanitation.
However, what about someone who is "on call" and would only expect such a call in an emergency. It is now incumbent upon that person to make sure at any given time that his or her phone is not being jammed.
Here's a thought.
Make jammers legal, but require their presence be noted, make cellphones capable of detecting the jamming (doesn't have to be all phones, just has to be available), and jammer operators are required to turn them off for some period of time (say three hours) when requested by people with a bona-fide reason for doing so (emergency personnel, people awaiting transplants, etc.)
Alternatively, make it a requirement that cellphones have a way to be forced into silent ring mode, and make devices that transmit the signal to make them do so available. The weakness of this approach is that older phones that ignore the signal will be around for a while, and obnoxious people will probably make a market for phones that ignore the signal.
News.com has an interview today with the surviving lawyer who spammed Usenet with multiple "Green Card Lottery" posts in '94."
Well at least we got one of them...
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We can't suddenly start censoring reality because something horribly happened.
From today's Washington Post, in reference to a new "anti-terror" bill being passed in Maryland: "I realize that this bill basically says you can tap someone's phone for jaywalking, and normally I would say, 'No way,' " said Del. Dana Lee Dembrow (D-Montgomery). "But after what happened on September 11th, I say screw 'em."
If that freedom is taken away then all is lost, the initials U-S-A mean nothing, the terrorists will have won.
The terrorists don't give a damn one way or the other about American freedoms, they want the U.S. out of the Middle East.
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Government got involved just enough to make HDTV a collosal failure.
Indeed.
The true stupidity was not having greater involvement from the computer industry. Computers were getting pretty popular around the time these standards were being developed. The smart thing to do would be to leverage computer technology and the need for hi-res monitors to jump-start digital TV, by making the standard compatible with computers. Instead, the highest progressive resolution in real use is 480p. Maybe that'll satisfy folks with poor vision but not the rest of us.
'Cept the blue woman bought it a while back. Chiana is gray, although the hue doesn't always seem to come through correctly.
That's true, but the article said that those posts had attachments, so they were denied, which I'm sure is automatic.
...in which case, the list owner has grounds to sue *him* for libel.
Geez, I thought Novak was grumpy enough when he was on Crossfire...
The problem is that, at least in this case, it costs a lot more to have your day in court than it does to settle.
I'd read for the Bar, but they don't allow that anywhere in the U.S. anymore.
That is why one typically uses glasses with accurately sync'ed shutters
The problem with shutters is that you need to double the effective frame rate. Thus for 60 FPS you need 120 FPS visible on your monitor, which is a pretty high rate, and your video card needs to generate frames twice as fast. LCD shutters also have at least some bleed-through (one eye seeing something from images meant for the other eye), don't they?
I don't know of any 3-D imaging system that's truly issue-free. HMDs require you to focus fairly closely, and don't have a high-enough resolution. The various red-blue, shutter, and polarization schemes tend to have polarization. DTI3D's monitor requires you to keep your head fairly still.
And how many innocent humans in Afghanistan have died to appease the American's disgusting need for vengeance.
Hard to tell for sure, but on the other hand it is claimed that many thousands have been saved from starvation in that country due to incoming aid. It's quite possible that it's a substantial net reduction in total Afghani deaths, not to mention the elimination of an awful, repressive regime. It is to be hoped we can do for Afghanistan what we did for Japan and Western Europe after WWII.
And just to add to that, they'd had the '93 bombing to stimulate them to upgrade the facitilities in that very building, and it has been stated that those improvements almost certainly saved many lives.
If you absolutely don't want a building to come down due to an impact of a 747, build it underground.
A pyramid structure with a solid core probably would also survive such an impact. However, it uses a whole lot more acreage, so as long as you want densely packed cities, they aren't an option.
Surely, this can't all be entirely due to the slow seething disturbances down below.
It could be, and don't call me Shirley.
What is this, sports-cliche time?
>>you just can't stop energy.
>True, but you can contain it.
"You can't stop [], you can only hope to contain him..."
What elephant is Sony part of?
They are Siamese twin elephants.
I for one have been using Mozilla for quite a while. I'll occasionally run IE to view a site Mo won't handle, but that's typically only once every couple of days. Mozilla hasn't crashed for me in several weeks, although recently (0.9.9?) I've had a problem where it suddenly "forgets" how to browse. Shutting down and restarting fixes it though.
I don't know, but I would like to see scrollbars that look different if scrolled all the way to one end or the other. As is, I have some apps where I've been deceived into thinking I'm at the top of the data, when there's a tiny bit more that turns out to be important.
Wall Street is just take take take.
Even if they don't contribute a line of code, they will report bugs, and they will buy support contracts from companies like Red Hat which do contribute code. Their employees may submit fixes simply for their convenience in not having to maintain the fix. Their purchases of Linux-supported hardware will influence manufacturers to upgrade their Linux support.
It's really hard for a user not to end up helping.
As to spam from Nigeria - I've never had any (that I know of) - how about everyone else?
I've gotten a couple of (slightly) different variations of it.
PigleT, while your comparison seems legitimate, it really isn't; most people who use computers these days are familiar with the Windows world and the Microsoft way of doing things.
Or, if they aren't, they know someone who does have some understanding of Windows configuration.
I think ultimately Linux has the better potential scheme, with better possibilities for automation, etc., because it's a forethought rather than an afterthought. But I think it's also capable of supporting the naive user better, and I would like to see it do so.
A gui wraparound to a text based system configuration system can easily be even easier to use than a control panel metaphor.
The best design is to have a library with a well-defined API. From this build your command line app(s) and your GUI app(s).
The guessing, the program, or both?
The original asking. He's got a stutter that would make Porky Pig envious...
My hand isn't raised about Andersonville Georgia (time for a Google search).
It was a Confederate prison during the American Civil War. A significant percentage of the POWs died of deprivation and disease, and it has gained a reputation as the worst prison camp of the war. This reputation may be undeserved, as a similar situation was true of other Confederate and Union prison camps, or indeed any situation where large groups of men lived together with poor sanitation.
However, what about someone who is "on call" and would only expect such a call in an emergency. It is now incumbent upon that person to make sure at any given time that his or her phone is not being jammed.
Here's a thought.
Make jammers legal, but require their presence be noted, make cellphones capable of detecting the jamming (doesn't have to be all phones, just has to be available), and jammer operators are required to turn them off for some period of time (say three hours) when requested by people with a bona-fide reason for doing so (emergency personnel, people awaiting transplants, etc.)
Alternatively, make it a requirement that cellphones have a way to be forced into silent ring mode, and make devices that transmit the signal to make them do so available. The weakness of this approach is that older phones that ignore the signal will be around for a while, and obnoxious people will probably make a market for phones that ignore the signal.
News.com has an interview today with the surviving lawyer who spammed Usenet with multiple "Green Card Lottery" posts in '94."
Well at least we got one of them...
We can't suddenly start censoring reality because something horribly happened.
From today's Washington Post, in reference to a new "anti-terror" bill being passed in Maryland:
"I realize that this bill basically says you can tap someone's phone for jaywalking, and normally I would say, 'No way,' " said Del. Dana Lee Dembrow (D-Montgomery). "But after what happened on September 11th, I say screw 'em."
If that freedom is taken away then all is lost, the initials U-S-A mean nothing, the terrorists will have won.
The terrorists don't give a damn one way or the other about American freedoms, they want the U.S. out of the Middle East.
Orangle?
"Orange" is too hard to rhyme...
Hah! I'll just genocide "@"s! That'll fix 'em...
...or do you just not like Vivendi Universal Publishing cause they're french?
Isn't that reason enough?