I would welcome a tax on any of the usual causes of obesity (fast food, junk food, etc.). I do not have a problem with it at all.
Myself, I have a medical problem with my basal metabolic rate that I've been struggling with all my life. I bet that I eat healthier than 90% of Americans, yet look like I eat like the worst 10%.
A fine on fat people doesn't rule out those who have no choice. A fine on the things which are the normal causes of obesity does.
The most obese people are usually from the lower echelons of society, BTW. They would be very sensitive to the changes in price of their coveted McGriddles and Ho-Hos.
Denon makes excellent equipment. I'd put myself in the category of "audiophile with a clue". That is I understand the basics of how electric signals work, I've built and designed my own speakers, and I generally geek out on audio reproduction.
Honestly, my guess is there is a demand for this cable out there. They have a Denon link cable which is "proprietary". I think that it is Cat-5 but it is not wired the same as normal Cat-5. Rich audiophiles who are clueless have very expensive cables, but can not get a really awesome looking cable for their Denon. They call Denon, and ask for it.
If someone called you right now and said "I need a 500 dollar Cat-5 cable", would you sell it?
Just yesterday I plugged my blackberry in to my computer to back up some phone numbers and a bunch of dialogs came up which I instantly "Yessed" through, thinking I was accepting some kind of useless binding legal document, when I missed one saying it was going to update my phone and delete all of my information. Needless to say, I am now phone-number-less.
However, the interesting thing is that I told my parents of this (while trying to figure out their cellphone numbers), and they instantly blamed the computer for what happened. I tried to explain that I was at fault, and it only did exactly what I told it to do.
They made a good point, however. If there weren't so many dialog boxes we just have to click next or accept then perhaps people would actually read the ones that are important.
I used to have to do that for my XP installs (I have no floppy drives in my possession, and who wants to see a floppy in their nice new computer?). However, I much more enjoy Vista's installer.
I remember back when I used Windows 2000 extensively and after XP came out (and had it's own problems, so I waited till after SP1 before trying it, like Vista), and I expected an installer none-too-dissimilar to Vista's, and it was nothing but a rehash of the Windows 2000 installer, which in turn is none to different from the Windows NT installer.
Also, from a normal users viewpoint slipstreaming your Windows ISO with drivers is pretty obtuse. Vista's installer is faster and easier to use in every respect, from my viewpoint.
I do slipstream disks at work, however. We have 10 servers that are all identical so creating one master install media with all drivers, windows keys, domain information, etc is well worth it for ease of install and reinstall.
Anyway, I am a mac fan sitting here defending Vista and I feel pretty dirty about that, so I'm going to go.
I did some original research for one of my senior projects concerning teens and technology.
I found that a great majority (>75%) of those between 13-18 never used email for communication, and thought it was either outdated or didn't have a use for them. These teens used SMS, MMS or IMs for communication.
Once the age increased a little bit to 18-25 the numbers shifted dramatically the other direction, as work usage of e-mail went way up. There is also the factor that these people are older and e-mail is "older" than SMS and competing technologies, however, the main factor that went into it was the fact that their jobs required them to use internal e-mail.
I'm sure at the other end of the population stream there are those that have no idea either doesn't know what e-mail is, or has no use for it.
If you asked my mother if she uses e-mail she would tell you she doesn't, however she has a g-mail address and sends me things all of the time. She thinks she instant messaging me because it goes to my blackberry and she gets a message back from my phone most of the time. (I've explained to her that it is email, not text, and she understands it; she just forgets from time to time).
The reminds me of a situation I had with my neighbor, who also liked to test his sound system day and night, and also was quite unclean and brought a large amount of roaches with him.
It appeared that he had an unsecured wireless network, in fact a WRT54G. Next thing you know I have OpenWRT on that baby and the DNS is pointing everything to TubGirl.
Took him two weeks to buy a new router, but I saw him trying to fix it the whole time, bringing it up and down probably wondering what happened to his precious web interface.
Memories of college *sniffle*
They also did quite a nice one with Snapple but I can't seem to find a video of it anywhere. Unfortunately most 30 Rock clips get taken down by NBC.
The Colbert Report's parody of a presidential campaign sponsored by Dorrito's was also quite hilarious.
Going from product placement to television is almost certainly a bad idea. I don't even know how that will work: "Wow, I love packet shaping with my Cisco router using QoS!" "Me too, also my Intel Core 2 Duo is so fast, it blows women's clothes off" "Hey that was a blatent ripoff of the Italian Job, unlike Microsoft's Windows Vista that in no way stole anything from OSX....."
This applies only to me, of course, as I was the only test subject however here are my findings: I can stastically distinguish up to 256kbit/s MP3 vs FLAC. At 320kbps my rate is around 65%, which is not sufficently higher than 50% to declare that it was distinguished (over my 20 tests).
The following equipment was used: Sennheiser HD650 Benchmark DAC Fed using Emu 1616 from computer. Using my ZD5's from ZaphAudio (www.zaphaudio.com) which I built, I had less accuracy due to noise level in room.
Tests were done double blind using Foobar's ABX test application. Test tracks were Mel Torme - Sleigh Ride (Jazzy Christmas with Telarc), Herbert von Karajan - Beethoven's 9th (Mvmt 4) and Rachael Yamagata - Worn Me Down.
At least for me, FLAC is not by any means an absolute neccisary. The portability options for conversion to other formats is a huge factor looking forward however. I am sure that those with Ipod earbuds would have less resolution capacity, however my ears are not by any means extraordinary.
...and the know-how to do battle are readily found on the Internet and at your local RadioShack. Dear God, if they can wage battle with RadioShack, please keep them from knowing about Digi-key http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/en/pdf/Current.html
It just saddens me that he isn't likely to win. He is obviously what this country needs. He stands on the ideals on democracy, and freedom. We are privelaged to live in a democracy, but every day we are willing to get rid of our freedoms in exchange for the feeling of being protected, or in this case, an i-pod.
Ron Paul, at least in my opinion, is one of the few decent politicians we have left. He actually says what he believes, and then consistently votes that way. He also takes virtually no money from lobbying groups. He is running for President in 2008 with the Republican party, although his views are much more in-line with the libertarians. Here is a link to his http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul/ views on wikipedia
Glossy paper in his pocket may have shielded him from getting burned by the fire, Danny Williams said in local news reports. I literally smell a HP photo paper commercial.
They are referring to the encryption technique of salting the hashes:
Salts also help protect against rainbow tables as they, in effect, extend the length and potentially the complexity of the password. If the rainbow tables do not have passwords matching the length (e.g. 8 bytes password, and 2 bytes salt, is effectively a 10 byte password) and complexity (non-alphanumeric salt increases the complexity of strictly alphanumeric passwords) of the salted password, then the password will not be found. If found, one will have to remove the salt from the password before it can be used. Shamelessly quoting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
Incorrect. Intel's "Core Microarchitecture" is marketed under the name "Core 2." The "Core 2 Quad" processors use the Core Microarchitecture. See Intel's product brief on the subject.
I said quad CPU not Quad Core. Socket 771 Core 2 Quads or Quad Xeons can only be used in pairs.
Basically the answer to all of your arguements is that I said "Quad CPU" not "Quad Core". You should know there is a difference.
Intel's Core Microarchitecture is not currently available in a quad-CPU platform. It is understandable the multithreaded performance would be poor, then.
The current quad-cpu architecture is based on Tulsa, which a 65nm shrink of Paxville, which is essentially a Pentium 4 Smithfield, or two Prescotts shoved onto one ship. Basically, it's two years ago's technology. The new Tigerton chip will be in Core based, however, it's not out yet.
Intel doesn't have an L3 cache on any of their stuff. Actually, the Intel Xeon 7100 (Tulsa) series has 16 megabytes of shared L3 Cache. These are only dual core, however.
Most wanted sperm... I believe that coming in second in the list of most wanted sperm has to be a more painful blow for Bill. In China, where the piracy rate is so high, there is probably already cheap knock-offs of his semen. Bill Gates Formula 401, 1.25 cents on the open market. It's sad really.
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I would welcome a tax on any of the usual causes of obesity (fast food, junk food, etc.). I do not have a problem with it at all.
Myself, I have a medical problem with my basal metabolic rate that I've been struggling with all my life. I bet that I eat healthier than 90% of Americans, yet look like I eat like the worst 10%.
A fine on fat people doesn't rule out those who have no choice. A fine on the things which are the normal causes of obesity does.
The most obese people are usually from the lower echelons of society, BTW. They would be very sensitive to the changes in price of their coveted McGriddles and Ho-Hos.
Denon makes excellent equipment. I'd put myself in the category of "audiophile with a clue". That is I understand the basics of how electric signals work, I've built and designed my own speakers, and I generally geek out on audio reproduction.
Honestly, my guess is there is a demand for this cable out there. They have a Denon link cable which is "proprietary". I think that it is Cat-5 but it is not wired the same as normal Cat-5. Rich audiophiles who are clueless have very expensive cables, but can not get a really awesome looking cable for their Denon. They call Denon, and ask for it.
If someone called you right now and said "I need a 500 dollar Cat-5 cable", would you sell it?
Just yesterday I plugged my blackberry in to my computer to back up some phone numbers and a bunch of dialogs came up which I instantly "Yessed" through, thinking I was accepting some kind of useless binding legal document, when I missed one saying it was going to update my phone and delete all of my information. Needless to say, I am now phone-number-less.
However, the interesting thing is that I told my parents of this (while trying to figure out their cellphone numbers), and they instantly blamed the computer for what happened. I tried to explain that I was at fault, and it only did exactly what I told it to do.
They made a good point, however. If there weren't so many dialog boxes we just have to click next or accept then perhaps people would actually read the ones that are important.
I used to have to do that for my XP installs (I have no floppy drives in my possession, and who wants to see a floppy in their nice new computer?). However, I much more enjoy Vista's installer.
I remember back when I used Windows 2000 extensively and after XP came out (and had it's own problems, so I waited till after SP1 before trying it, like Vista), and I expected an installer none-too-dissimilar to Vista's, and it was nothing but a rehash of the Windows 2000 installer, which in turn is none to different from the Windows NT installer.
Also, from a normal users viewpoint slipstreaming your Windows ISO with drivers is pretty obtuse. Vista's installer is faster and easier to use in every respect, from my viewpoint.
I do slipstream disks at work, however. We have 10 servers that are all identical so creating one master install media with all drivers, windows keys, domain information, etc is well worth it for ease of install and reinstall.
Anyway, I am a mac fan sitting here defending Vista and I feel pretty dirty about that, so I'm going to go.
Ok, Jean valjean. Steal any food for your sister lately?
I did some original research for one of my senior projects concerning teens and technology.
I found that a great majority (>75%) of those between 13-18 never used email for communication, and thought it was either outdated or didn't have a use for them. These teens used SMS, MMS or IMs for communication.
Once the age increased a little bit to 18-25 the numbers shifted dramatically the other direction, as work usage of e-mail went way up. There is also the factor that these people are older and e-mail is "older" than SMS and competing technologies, however, the main factor that went into it was the fact that their jobs required them to use internal e-mail.
I'm sure at the other end of the population stream there are those that have no idea either doesn't know what e-mail is, or has no use for it.
If you asked my mother if she uses e-mail she would tell you she doesn't, however she has a g-mail address and sends me things all of the time. She thinks she instant messaging me because it goes to my blackberry and she gets a message back from my phone most of the time. (I've explained to her that it is email, not text, and she understands it; she just forgets from time to time).
The reminds me of a situation I had with my neighbor, who also liked to test his sound system day and night, and also was quite unclean and brought a large amount of roaches with him. It appeared that he had an unsecured wireless network, in fact a WRT54G. Next thing you know I have OpenWRT on that baby and the DNS is pointing everything to TubGirl. Took him two weeks to buy a new router, but I saw him trying to fix it the whole time, bringing it up and down probably wondering what happened to his precious web interface. Memories of college *sniffle*
Example from 30 Rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36wUmJGzvA
They also did quite a nice one with Snapple but I can't seem to find a video of it anywhere. Unfortunately most 30 Rock clips get taken down by NBC.
The Colbert Report's parody of a presidential campaign sponsored by Dorrito's was also quite hilarious.
Going from product placement to television is almost certainly a bad idea. I don't even know how that will work:
"Wow, I love packet shaping with my Cisco router using QoS!" "Me too, also my Intel Core 2 Duo is so fast, it blows women's clothes off" "Hey that was a blatent ripoff of the Italian Job, unlike Microsoft's Windows Vista that in no way stole anything from OSX....."
You could just do DHCP reservations.
This applies only to me, of course, as I was the only test subject however here are my findings:
I can stastically distinguish up to 256kbit/s MP3 vs FLAC.
At 320kbps my rate is around 65%, which is not sufficently higher than 50% to declare that it was distinguished (over my 20 tests).
The following equipment was used:
Sennheiser HD650
Benchmark DAC
Fed using Emu 1616 from computer.
Using my ZD5's from ZaphAudio (www.zaphaudio.com) which I built, I had less accuracy due to noise level in room.
Tests were done double blind using Foobar's ABX test application. Test tracks were Mel Torme - Sleigh Ride (Jazzy Christmas with Telarc), Herbert von Karajan - Beethoven's 9th (Mvmt 4) and Rachael Yamagata - Worn Me Down.
At least for me, FLAC is not by any means an absolute neccisary. The portability options for conversion to other formats is a huge factor looking forward however. I am sure that those with Ipod earbuds would have less resolution capacity, however my ears are not by any means extraordinary.
...and the know-how to do battle are readily found on the Internet and at your local RadioShack. Dear God, if they can wage battle with RadioShack, please keep them from knowing about Digi-key http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/en/pdf/Current.htmlApples versus Potatoes, the eternal struggle.
It just saddens me that he isn't likely to win. He is obviously what this country needs. He stands on the ideals on democracy, and freedom. We are privelaged to live in a democracy, but every day we are willing to get rid of our freedoms in exchange for the feeling of being protected, or in this case, an i-pod.
Ron Paul, at least in my opinion, is one of the few decent politicians we have left. He actually says what he believes, and then consistently votes that way. He also takes virtually no money from lobbying groups. He is running for President in 2008 with the Republican party, although his views are much more in-line with the libertarians. Here is a link to his http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul/ views on wikipedia
I literally smell a HP photo paper commercial.
I said quad CPU not Quad Core. Socket 771 Core 2 Quads or Quad Xeons can only be used in pairs.
Basically the answer to all of your arguements is that I said "Quad CPU" not "Quad Core". You should know there is a difference.
Intel's Core Microarchitecture is not currently available in a quad-CPU platform. It is understandable the multithreaded performance would be poor, then.
The current quad-cpu architecture is based on Tulsa, which a 65nm shrink of Paxville, which is essentially a Pentium 4 Smithfield, or two Prescotts shoved onto one ship. Basically, it's two years ago's technology. The new Tigerton chip will be in Core based, however, it's not out yet.
Someone who can afford a Ferrari?
Actually, the Intel Xeon 7100 (Tulsa) series has 16 megabytes of shared L3 Cache. These are only dual core, however.
Anyone else think it's funny that the Zune will support "Podcasting"?
Most wanted sperm...
I believe that coming in second in the list of most wanted sperm has to be a more painful blow for Bill. In China, where the piracy rate is so high, there is probably already cheap knock-offs of his semen. Bill Gates Formula 401, 1.25 cents on the open market. It's sad really.
A supercomputer on a chip....so it should be named Altivec?