I always called it Tri-Ethane, which is also a trademark, I think...
And yes, I would be happy to take it in and dispose of it for ya. Nothing better for degreasing, all you have to do is pay attention and let it evaporate before you do any welding or hot work. L0ser environmentalists stuck me with the tri-ethelyne, not nearly as effective.
My RCA TV/VCR combo is 17 years old. My 27" XL-100 console was 26 years old and worked great right up to when we threw it into the container before moving. We couldn't give it away.
No HDTV, especially some of the flat panels. Won't last 8 years.
1. HDTV has a path to 2160p, and uHDTV projects to 4320p, or 7680x4320. In tests, it only takes 4TB to record 20 minutes of this. We will be a while getting this on the market, since even buffering this is going to present new challenges, and the bandwidth just doesn't exist. Thank NHK and the BBC for this advance...
2. Quad HDTV (uHDTV) would require either reducing pixel size by 4x, or mandating minimum screen sizes a lot larger than what we have now. Two ways to do this; Learn to make Apple's retina displays on a huge scale, or, more likely, flexible screens. I can deal with assembling a frame and basically rolling out the screen into the frame. This is cool beyond all this, and will probably happen. Shipping 72" screens must be fraught with uncertainty, but a tube for a rollup screen would be much less trouble.
Unfortunately, this is all conjecture. Much technology to be made, and of course the raw data is just overwhelming now. Do I want a 256TB array in the house to save a few movies on, and do I get this on anything other than fiber?
1. In an age of digitally compressed music (MP3s, Ogg, even ATRAC, and others) true fidelity is a wast of money. The source is so relatively awful that good gear cannot fix the problems. And actually, if you are listening to most pop/rap/hiphop/etc music, it's been so worked over in the studio that you're wasting your dynamic range. Headroom for these genres is measured underneath your steering wheel. That audience doesn't care.
2. Much gear is build with integrated power stages, which just don't compare to well designed circuitry. Again, why bother with the front end if the power stage is so messy...
3. Speaker technology is truly impressive today, but give me a set of JBL L100s or their 4xxx brethren, since I don't have room for a Paragon system. Or a set of Klipschorns, even some Belle Klipschs would be nice for me. Speakers were damned good in the 70s. I rarely crank it up to concert level, but the Paradigms I have are adequate, since i now live on a concrete floor. Give those babies a wood floor over a basement and hold on to your glasses...
1. America may not believe in evolution, but the majority no longer believe in Creationism, despite whatever the recent polls indicate. Claims that America is a Christian or even religious nation should be considered suspect. Immigrants are bringing their religion with them, but the preexisting citizens are fleeing religion in droves. Easier to believe in nothing than to believe in something definite and difficult. And if America dies out because they don't believe in evolution, they will be in a large company.
2. America isn't so focused on killing brown-skinned people as you think. If you attack us, we won't check your skin color before we retaliate.
3. We don't want to claim Earth as our own, we just want you all to accept us as the best nation on it. And we have competition in that regard. I assume you dislike our competitors also? Trust me, you don't want them to win. We have a history of rebuilding the vanquished. They have a history of enslaving their enemies.
The 'methods' of encryption have changed (once was ZIP, now ZIP AND PDF, requiring a PDF reader in addition to ZIP libraries), but the concept isn't new, and I;m surprised has not been in continuous use since then.
And this passes as either new or unusual for/.? Doubling the deteciton volume for a month? July? And July isn't even over yet?
So was it the word 'darwinian' that justified this as interesting?
Reallocating costs via salaries and capital expenditures sounds good and all, but when 20-30% of your students are 'special needs', and cost 300-400% more than your 'average' student, you are spending huge money and getting back very little impact for the community. Special needs students need those services, and delivering those crushes your per-pupil expenditure stats. You can spend $12k/pupil and still shortchange the majority of students if you have 5% of your students requiring $60k+/yr.
And it's not as simple as reducing administrator pay. How about reducing administrator positions? Oh, that won't do. We need developers for this and coordinators for that. Maybe not.
Well, I'm thinking keeping track of me just because they can violated the 4th Amendment, As in the police need some reason to keep records of my whereabouts, other than 'just because they can'.
And this is virtually not any different than working with whatever provider and downloading the GPS history. With license tracking, they collect that data before they have a reason to know of me. With GPS searches, they gather the data elsewhere.
Fundamentally, I expect the police to be prohibited from gathering substantive informatio about me unless they have a reason. Driving past me doesn't seem to be much of a reason.
Nobody is mentioning the loss of potential picture quality in HD at all. OTA HD can be very good, and some satellite feeds are good, but cable mostly just shreds it with compression and downconverts. They got bandwidth issues too.
Streaming does your picture quality no favors, usually, this is true.
I also live just east of Phoenix and well within the metro area, and I can get any leval of bandwidth offerd, 50MB if I want. I do live about 35 ft from the DSL SLC, which makes for a short copper loop, and it goes fiber a whole.7 miles down to the CO. But I'm not IN Phoenix, just lucky. I can get stupid bandwidth if I pay for it.
Sounds like you live off the cable map, which is seriously off the grid around here. Too bad. No Cox?
"Until they get high speed internet out to rural locations, something better than 1.5Mbs cellular with 5GB caps on. DVDs will continue to be the best solution for rural locations.
There, that's more accurate. Those of us who have lived in both rural and urban locations know the difference. You, it seems, have not.
Common error, don't think a thing of it. But knowing there is a market OTHER than rural does help you make sense of the whole streaming thing.
The Redbox model is highly impulsive. You wanna watch something tonight? You're driving right by one, go ahead and park, get out, swipe your card, and get a DVD. Bring it back whenever. Chances are, even if it's horrible, you'll leave it on and Facebook all night. Maybe even if it's good.
Netflix streaming is not yet that convenient for people, and you subscribe, so you shell out cash in advance. Not impulsive yet. When Netflix works out a way to ding your PayPal account when you decide to stream something, and then ship you a box in the mail for $24.99 that you plug in and go with, it will not be as impulsive as Redbox.
And it won't be long before we see Netflix boxen all over the place, for very little money, solving the impulse buy problem. Enter in your payment details, and cha-ching, watch a movie whenever.
I was referring to the hypothetical situation of a stanrdard-based US currency, gold-backed to be specific, and the problem of expanding the money supply. Eventually gold becomes scarce, therefore more expensive, and either the money supply can't be expanded (inflation?) or it becomes prohibitively expensive to do so (inflation?).
Either way, the most important outcome might be lost growth.
So, bright eyes, what would happen if a gold-backed currency could not find more gold to back it?
Your comment, "Print up $1bn per human being in the world, and then give it to each person?", seems to indicate you didn't understand my example. Fine.
You touch on my fundamental objection to returning to the gold standard. SInce gold is a finite commodity, with both a finite amount available at any time and a finite amount EVER available, it is a significantly limiting factor to economic growth. Scarcity leads to inflation, and collapse doesn't solve anything regarding the currency.
The solution isn't to tie currency to something, it's to control the Fractional Reserve
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'Trike'; is Trichloroethane. Slightly different.
I always called it Tri-Ethane, which is also a trademark, I think...
And yes, I would be happy to take it in and dispose of it for ya. Nothing better for degreasing, all you have to do is pay attention and let it evaporate before you do any welding or hot work. L0ser environmentalists stuck me with the tri-ethelyne, not nearly as effective.
My RCA TV/VCR combo is 17 years old. My 27" XL-100 console was 26 years old and worked great right up to when we threw it into the container before moving. We couldn't give it away.
No HDTV, especially some of the flat panels. Won't last 8 years.
No problem getting us to buy something new.
1. HDTV has a path to 2160p, and uHDTV projects to 4320p, or 7680x4320. In tests, it only takes 4TB to record 20 minutes of this. We will be a while getting this on the market, since even buffering this is going to present new challenges, and the bandwidth just doesn't exist. Thank NHK and the BBC for this advance...
2. Quad HDTV (uHDTV) would require either reducing pixel size by 4x, or mandating minimum screen sizes a lot larger than what we have now. Two ways to do this; Learn to make Apple's retina displays on a huge scale, or, more likely, flexible screens. I can deal with assembling a frame and basically rolling out the screen into the frame. This is cool beyond all this, and will probably happen. Shipping 72" screens must be fraught with uncertainty, but a tube for a rollup screen would be much less trouble.
Unfortunately, this is all conjecture. Much technology to be made, and of course the raw data is just overwhelming now. Do I want a 256TB array in the house to save a few movies on, and do I get this on anything other than fiber?
I thought Skull fell off. Ack! He's alive!
1. In an age of digitally compressed music (MP3s, Ogg, even ATRAC, and others) true fidelity is a wast of money. The source is so relatively awful that good gear cannot fix the problems. And actually, if you are listening to most pop/rap/hiphop/etc music, it's been so worked over in the studio that you're wasting your dynamic range. Headroom for these genres is measured underneath your steering wheel. That audience doesn't care.
2. Much gear is build with integrated power stages, which just don't compare to well designed circuitry. Again, why bother with the front end if the power stage is so messy...
3. Speaker technology is truly impressive today, but give me a set of JBL L100s or their 4xxx brethren, since I don't have room for a Paragon system. Or a set of Klipschorns, even some Belle Klipschs would be nice for me. Speakers were damned good in the 70s. I rarely crank it up to concert level, but the Paradigms I have are adequate, since i now live on a concrete floor. Give those babies a wood floor over a basement and hold on to your glasses...
We need the sequel to Splice.
Yes, we do.
"Red Skull, an insightful look into the caring side of a Megalomaniac Nazi General."
Did you miss Capatain America? Red Skull is at the bottom of an ice-covered canyon. Maybe not dead, I know, but...
Well;
Cowboys and Aliens
Done. Do we need more? Or is this a reboot of the Independence Day/War of the Worlds franchise? It's all so confusing...
1. America may not believe in evolution, but the majority no longer believe in Creationism, despite whatever the recent polls indicate. Claims that America is a Christian or even religious nation should be considered suspect. Immigrants are bringing their religion with them, but the preexisting citizens are fleeing religion in droves. Easier to believe in nothing than to believe in something definite and difficult. And if America dies out because they don't believe in evolution, they will be in a large company.
2. America isn't so focused on killing brown-skinned people as you think. If you attack us, we won't check your skin color before we retaliate.
3. We don't want to claim Earth as our own, we just want you all to accept us as the best nation on it. And we have competition in that regard. I assume you dislike our competitors also? Trust me, you don't want them to win. We have a history of rebuilding the vanquished. They have a history of enslaving their enemies.
4. At least you're not backward.
And the 1260 virus.
The 'methods' of encryption have changed (once was ZIP, now ZIP AND PDF, requiring a PDF reader in addition to ZIP libraries), but the concept isn't new, and I;m surprised has not been in continuous use since then.
And this passes as either new or unusual for /.? Doubling the deteciton volume for a month? July? And July isn't even over yet?
So was it the word 'darwinian' that justified this as interesting?
feh.
It's cheaper than if you have NFI how to fix the infected computers.
Just sayin'.
Oh, and Ray Ozzie's concepts are in practice and working, have been for these 35 years.
Reallocating costs via salaries and capital expenditures sounds good and all, but when 20-30% of your students are 'special needs', and cost 300-400% more than your 'average' student, you are spending huge money and getting back very little impact for the community. Special needs students need those services, and delivering those crushes your per-pupil expenditure stats. You can spend $12k/pupil and still shortchange the majority of students if you have 5% of your students requiring $60k+/yr.
And it's not as simple as reducing administrator pay. How about reducing administrator positions? Oh, that won't do. We need developers for this and coordinators for that. Maybe not.
Well, I'm thinking keeping track of me just because they can violated the 4th Amendment, As in the police need some reason to keep records of my whereabouts, other than 'just because they can'.
And this is virtually not any different than working with whatever provider and downloading the GPS history. With license tracking, they collect that data before they have a reason to know of me. With GPS searches, they gather the data elsewhere.
Fundamentally, I expect the police to be prohibited from gathering substantive informatio about me unless they have a reason. Driving past me doesn't seem to be much of a reason.
Darn it, I meant 4th and 5th Amendments.
Nobody is mentioning the loss of potential picture quality in HD at all. OTA HD can be very good, and some satellite feeds are good, but cable mostly just shreds it with compression and downconverts. They got bandwidth issues too.
Streaming does your picture quality no favors, usually, this is true.
I also live just east of Phoenix and well within the metro area, and I can get any leval of bandwidth offerd, 50MB if I want. I do live about 35 ft from the DSL SLC, which makes for a short copper loop, and it goes fiber a whole .7 miles down to the CO. But I'm not IN Phoenix, just lucky. I can get stupid bandwidth if I pay for it.
Sounds like you live off the cable map, which is seriously off the grid around here. Too bad. No Cox?
"Until they get high speed internet out to rural locations, something better than 1.5Mbs cellular with 5GB caps on. DVDs will continue to be the best solution for rural locations.
There, that's more accurate. Those of us who have lived in both rural and urban locations know the difference. You, it seems, have not.
Common error, don't think a thing of it. But knowing there is a market OTHER than rural does help you make sense of the whole streaming thing.
The Redbox model is highly impulsive. You wanna watch something tonight? You're driving right by one, go ahead and park, get out, swipe your card, and get a DVD. Bring it back whenever. Chances are, even if it's horrible, you'll leave it on and Facebook all night. Maybe even if it's good.
Netflix streaming is not yet that convenient for people, and you subscribe, so you shell out cash in advance. Not impulsive yet. When Netflix works out a way to ding your PayPal account when you decide to stream something, and then ship you a box in the mail for $24.99 that you plug in and go with, it will not be as impulsive as Redbox.
And it won't be long before we see Netflix boxen all over the place, for very little money, solving the impulse buy problem. Enter in your payment details, and cha-ching, watch a movie whenever.
Maybe.
They deserve the epithet 'Masswhole" already. Funny thing, it was already about driving...
Nope. It's to circumvent the 4th and 4th Amendments.
In other words, it's so the police can break the law.
It's Massachusetts. Voting the bastards out is a lot, LOT harder than you think, not just because everyone in Massachusetts is a fat bastard.
And you people in Massachusetts, you KNOW who I'm talkin bout. Ayuh.
I was referring to the hypothetical situation of a stanrdard-based US currency, gold-backed to be specific, and the problem of expanding the money supply. Eventually gold becomes scarce, therefore more expensive, and either the money supply can't be expanded (inflation?) or it becomes prohibitively expensive to do so (inflation?).
Either way, the most important outcome might be lost growth.
So, bright eyes, what would happen if a gold-backed currency could not find more gold to back it?
Your comment, "Print up $1bn per human being in the world, and then give it to each person?", seems to indicate you didn't understand my example. Fine.
You touch on my fundamental objection to returning to the gold standard. SInce gold is a finite commodity, with both a finite amount available at any time and a finite amount EVER available, it is a significantly limiting factor to economic growth. Scarcity leads to inflation, and collapse doesn't solve anything regarding the currency.
The solution isn't to tie currency to something, it's to control the Fractional Reserve