Comment Re:I want my 15 minutes back (Score 1) 841
I can see beat interference from the sampling wave - whether point impulse or square - as, by itself, sufficient reason for wanting to double the sample rate.
Comment Re:I want my 15 minutes back (Score 1) 841
Lety me add phase shift, frequency shift, stereo image blurring and oscillation, and beat interference to your list.
Comment Re:The bit depth does matter (Score 1) 841
"21.9999kHz will be
Comment Re:Such systems have been proposed before (Score 1) 1065
Perhaps the corporation should be required to declare a taxable value for the options. This might discourage such compensation, and this discouragement might serve the public purpose. While the options or stock are not redeemed, they could be taxed to the recipient one time at a business rate with a business sized exemption. If the options become worthless, then a business loss can be declared.
A tax on compensation is not a tax on wealth. As pointed out already, there is a loophole here in the present code. No tax is ever collected on the money loaned against the stock, nor is capital gains tax collected on on the estate passed on to heirs.
Journal Journal: Is space flat? Friedmann coordinates confuse.
I have been studying how to do cosmology with inertial coordinates, not the Friedmann coordinates that cause such dogmatic chaos.
Journal Journal: General Relativity Trumps Quantum Mechanics Twice.
The predictions by quantum mechanics of net vacuum energy and of slowing of ultrashort wave radiation by a quantum foam do not work out. This is because general relativity has theorems to the contrary. But why would those theorems win out? General relativity wins within the domain of its axioms, because a lockin theorem applies, namely the Bianchi identities that follow simply from the existence of the metric. It prevents the subject matter, spacetime, from experiencing alternatives to govern
Journal Journal: Fedora 16 upgrade of kernel fails.
The daily upgrade broke booting on the new kernel; it forced booting with the next older kernel and required a "yum reinstall kernel" command for the latest kernel, 3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64, to boot on my hardware - an AMD, Radeon, and Realtek equipped Toshiba T115D. Grubby reported a fatal error, no valid template found.
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Michael J. Burns
Comment Re:Not to be too pedantic (Score 1) 631
The firing of a cannon is not accidental. An engineer would be liable, I think off hand, if she had been asked to evaluate the failure modes and had not spotted this eventuality. Causality rules in this domain of physics. And a cannon ball in flight carries an indivisible and large amount of kinetic energy, the producers should have rated the precautions in proportion.
Journal Journal: Enlightenment from Criticism of Friedmann Coordinates
I understand now how Friedmann coordinates obscure thinking on cosmology. So an addition to my old meditation on superluminal philosophers is needed. Even though they are contemporary to us by definition, they actually are on the far side of the big bang. Before we imagine them at a suitable distance, we must think of evidence of the big bang being mathematically deducible at a closer distance. Reasoning that excludes communication with such philosophers is complemented by the argument that t
Comment Fedora 16 Upgrade (Score 1) 1
An upgrade to Fedora 16 on this machine was a bit of a bother. After the preupgrade command and a reboot followed by a "yum upgrade" command, both at a console, an additional wait was needed for the graphical login to work. Then a "yum distro-sync" command fixed firefox.
Journal Journal: The Linux Kernel 3.1.1 fixes my Realtek Sound. 1
With today's update of Fedora 15, I no longer need to suspend my Toshiba 115D to enable the external sound output.
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Michael J. Burns
Journal Journal: More on Supernovae Ia Data
I am indebted to Professor Furton of GVSU for presenting the Carl Sagan Day Lecture in Grand Rapids. It was presented in a gentle and friendly spirit.
Journal Journal: Political Order
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/science/08fukuyama.html?pagewanted=all
“The Origin of Political Order”, by Professor Francis Fukuyama, seems (to me) to make fundamental points. It is an ongoing struggle to suppress older methods of government: personal vengeance, nepotism, gangs, tribal war gods, graft, bribery and patronage.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/a-history-of-americas-eleven-nations-20111006
Comment Fedora 16 fix (Score 1) 1
It was necessary to delete the file in ~/.local/share/icc/ . AVC was not allowing read access to it for dbus. Now I can login. At the moment the Perl environment is not updating correctly.
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Michael J. Burns
Journal Journal: Fedora 16 disallows my old login 1
My Fedora 16 upgrade only allows my Gnome 3 login twice in an hour of trying. It is a legacy home directory originally from Fedora 14 and earlier, then switched to a uid and gid of 1000 from 500 before the upgrade. My XFCE login reports a dbus error. A new test account is allowed.
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Michael J. Burns
