and large, roads are built with money from taxes on property or retail sales or personal income
Actually, the Federal government pays out highway subsidies and direct highway expenditures nearly as much as it takes in for gas taxes. Source.
For the states, it depends. In Wisconsin, gas tax pays for all of road expenses. We have slightly higher gas tax than our neighboring states, but we also have IMHO nicer roads.
On the federal level, it's close. Here's a table that shows FHA revenues vs. expenditures.
On the state level, it depends on the state. In Wisconsin we have high gasoline tax, but all of it goes to the roads and thus we have nice roads. In Minnesota all of the gas tax plus more from the general fund goes toward roads, their gas tax is lower so more is paid from the general fund. I don't know about other states.
It's not specific as to which one, but you're right, people usually use it to refer to the Atlantic.
An aside: You need to work on your style. In this post you come off as an annoying idiot. A good troll usually tries to make his posts seem informed and well thought out, giving the impression that the poster knows what he's talking about. It's much more entertaining for the rest of us.
LOL, unfortunately quantum computers aren't very good at adding, subtracting or a lot of other things that most programmers find useful from time to time these days. Binary systems will still be prevalent for a VERY long time to come. It just may not be on silicon for quite as long...
Not really. Quantum computers aren't very good at adding, subtracting or a lot of other things that most programmers find come in handy from time to time these days. Boolean logic will still be prevalent for a VERY long time to come. It may not happen on silicon for that long, however.
Well, you could always assign the internal interface a local ip that's non-internet routable (eg. 192.168 or something else that the firewall would block). Then you could ssh into a machine on the LAN from anywhere and from that machine into the router. Ta da! Secure remote configuration.
Well.. I decided to go looking after all. It seems that they can fit between 27-36 Mbit into 6mhz (depending on modulation technique) and can have pretty much as many 6mhz channels as they want.
Sorry, I don't have any links to back it up and I'm too lazy to go looking.:)
I got that information from talking to the Charter Communications general manager for my market (La Crosse, WI). I asked how much bandwidth the cables in our area will handle for modem subscribers when analog and digital tv are also being transmitted. He said 200 Mbit, easily. I tend to believe him, coaxial is good stuff.
The difference between Circuit City's fiasco and this is that divx required a special player which dialed an 800 number to see if you're eligible to play the disk. That part wasn't so horrible. The bad part is that CC wasn't making any money with it so they dropped it and screwed all the people who had paid extra for the specialized players.
These new ideas are entirely different.. they rely on the disc itself to limit how many times you can play it. I, for one, wouldn't mind paying $1-2 for a DVD which allows me to watch a movie a couple times until the coating on the disk makes it unreadable. You only have to read it once to rip it.;)
True, cable shares the bandwidth between the head end and your house whereas DSL only shares it at the head end. However, most cable can carry ~100-150mbit. It doesn't reall matter if cable is 'shared' because you're never going to fill it. You'll satruate the CO's t1/oc3 much sooner than the cable. If your neighborhood DOES manage to saturate it... wow.
You're SUPPOSED to ask everyone's concent. In practicality you don't have to- the only way for a contributer can keep you from closing the code is by suing you. They didn't ask, so people are pissed off.
I'm not sure, but even if it does, FPU emulation sucks HARD. Very, very slow. And, as the parent post mentioned, the vorbis codec uses a shitload of FP operations. It may be possible to compile it to work on a non-fpu ARM chip, but I wouldn't expect it to be able to decode in real time.
Yeah, they've got login problems up the arse right now.. I can't even add a movie to my list without getting that damned "somebody's logged in with your accout" crap. I've tried 2 different accounts on 3 browsers (IE6, Opera6, Mozilla 0.9.7) and none work. Shitty site, but it would be cool if it would work!
UW-Madison (which has the largest fusion studies program in the nation) seems to be rather interested in H-3, so much so that the Fusion Technology Institute here has designed a device for mining H-3 from the moon. Interesting stuff, check out the website.
It's nearly the same story here at the University of Wisconsin. Nearly all of the undergraduate honors programs REQUIRE research, and some of the undergrad majors. It's pretty sweet.
On a related note: does anybody else go to a university where lab techs who clean glassware and mix chemicals for grad students are paid $8/hr?
64kbps mp3s?? Shit man, why listen to music at all? Radios tuned to static sound better than that!
I don't want to sound mean, but do yourself a favor and buy yourself a pair of decent headphones. Last I looked, Amazon.com had Sennheiser eh2200's for $65. Check them out.
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and large, roads are built with money from taxes on property or retail sales or personal income
Actually, the Federal government pays out highway subsidies and direct highway expenditures nearly as much as it takes in for gas taxes. Source.
For the states, it depends. In Wisconsin, gas tax pays for all of road expenses. We have slightly higher gas tax than our neighboring states, but we also have IMHO nicer roads.
On the federal level, it's close. Here's a table that shows FHA revenues vs. expenditures.
On the state level, it depends on the state. In Wisconsin we have high gasoline tax, but all of it goes to the roads and thus we have nice roads. In Minnesota all of the gas tax plus more from the general fund goes toward roads, their gas tax is lower so more is paid from the general fund. I don't know about other states.
And of course there will be one nice, friendly Eric Cartman running around singing christmas carols and giving everyone compliments. :)
Perhaps. But when it starts to warm up, whoever is holding the thermos is fucked.
"The Pond" = "The Ocean"
It's not specific as to which one, but you're right, people usually use it to refer to the Atlantic.
An aside: You need to work on your style. In this post you come off as an annoying idiot. A good troll usually tries to make his posts seem informed and well thought out, giving the impression that the poster knows what he's talking about. It's much more entertaining for the rest of us.
LOL, unfortunately quantum computers aren't very good at adding, subtracting or a lot of other things that most programmers find useful from time to time these days. Binary systems will still be prevalent for a VERY long time to come. It just may not be on silicon for quite as long...
There's a lot of information in this thread,
specifically, this post.
Not really. Quantum computers aren't very good at adding, subtracting or a lot of other things that most programmers find come in handy from time to time these days. Boolean logic will still be prevalent for a VERY long time to come. It may not happen on silicon for that long, however.
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There's a lot of information in this thread: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/10/00162
specifically, this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=27736&cid=298
dining hall trays make excelent mounts for home brew electronics projects
:)
Among other things. Here at the U of Wisconsin - Madison we use use them as sleds.
Lots of fun trying to stop at the bottem of Bascom Hill before you hit the trees...
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/. have kuro5hin-style moderation?
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Why, oh why can't
You don't get the point: most artists don't even get $1 per CD!
What am I thinking? It's halted, you wouldn't be able to remotely log in to administer it. D'oh.
See what happens when you post right after getting out of bed?
This would work for an invisible firewall however, which is what I was thinking about when I wrote the above post.
Well, you could always assign the internal interface a local ip that's non-internet routable (eg. 192.168 or something else that the firewall would block). Then you could ssh into a machine on the LAN from anywhere and from that machine into the router. Ta da! Secure remote configuration.
I have a friend who owns a hosting company and can register domains for $7/year. I occasionally do some favors for him and he calls it even.
Maybe if you went to college you'd know that it costs a couple dollars more than high school did. Oh wait, you never finished that either, did you?
Because I'm a poor college kid. $1-2 would be fine, but $5 for a rental cuts into beer money. :)
Well.. I decided to go looking after all. It seems that they can fit between 27-36 Mbit into 6mhz (depending on modulation technique) and can have pretty much as many 6mhz channels as they want.
Check this site out, it's very informative:
http://www.cabledatacomnews.com/cmic/cmic1.html
Sorry, I don't have any links to back it up and I'm too lazy to go looking. :)
I got that information from talking to the Charter Communications general manager for my market (La Crosse, WI). I asked how much bandwidth the cables in our area will handle for modem subscribers when analog and digital tv are also being transmitted. He said 200 Mbit, easily. I tend to believe him, coaxial is good stuff.
The difference between Circuit City's fiasco and this is that divx required a special player which dialed an 800 number to see if you're eligible to play the disk. That part wasn't so horrible. The bad part is that CC wasn't making any money with it so they dropped it and screwed all the people who had paid extra for the specialized players.
;)
These new ideas are entirely different.. they rely on the disc itself to limit how many times you can play it. I, for one, wouldn't mind paying $1-2 for a DVD which allows me to watch a movie a couple times until the coating on the disk makes it unreadable. You only have to read it once to rip it.
True, cable shares the bandwidth between the head end and your house whereas DSL only shares it at the head end. However, most cable can carry ~100-150mbit. It doesn't reall matter if cable is 'shared' because you're never going to fill it. You'll satruate the CO's t1/oc3 much sooner than the cable. If your neighborhood DOES manage to saturate it... wow.
You're SUPPOSED to ask everyone's concent. In practicality you don't have to- the only way for a contributer can keep you from closing the code is by suing you. They didn't ask, so people are pissed off.
I'm not sure, but even if it does, FPU emulation sucks HARD. Very, very slow. And, as the parent post mentioned, the vorbis codec uses a shitload of FP operations. It may be possible to compile it to work on a non-fpu ARM chip, but I wouldn't expect it to be able to decode in real time.
Yeah, they've got login problems up the arse right now.. I can't even add a movie to my list without getting that damned "somebody's logged in with your accout" crap. I've tried 2 different accounts on 3 browsers (IE6, Opera6, Mozilla 0.9.7) and none work. Shitty site, but it would be cool if it would work!
Is there some sort of licensing problem with MP3s?
In a word: yes.
UW-Madison (which has the largest fusion studies program in the nation) seems to be rather interested in H-3, so much so that the Fusion Technology Institute here has designed a device for mining H-3 from the moon. Interesting stuff, check out the website.
It's nearly the same story here at the University of Wisconsin. Nearly all of the undergraduate honors programs REQUIRE research, and some of the undergrad majors. It's pretty sweet.
On a related note: does anybody else go to a university where lab techs who clean glassware and mix chemicals for grad students are paid $8/hr?
64kbps mp3s?? Shit man, why listen to music at all? Radios tuned to static sound better than that!
I don't want to sound mean, but do yourself a favor and buy yourself a pair of decent headphones. Last I looked, Amazon.com had Sennheiser eh2200's for $65. Check them out.