In all fairness, you should be comparing OS X to Windows XP Pro, not Home. OS X 10.3 is what you get on the most powerful workstation Apple makes, so it should be compared pricewise to the most powerful workstation Windows OS, not the stripped down toy "Home" version Microsoft sells.
Win XP Pro Upgrade is currently $179.99 at Amazon.
Connect the (S-)video output of the console to a video input on the PC (Hauppauge PVR or so) and watch the video in a window. The time lag is going to hurt, though.
I connect the output of my PS2 to an old Hauppauge WinTV card in my MAME box to play on the computer monitor. Works great, and I have NO lag trouble at all. Generally I use the setup to play DDR, so any lag would be fatal, but I don't have any and it works great.
Can't anybody make an honest dollar anymore.
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Free Mac Mini: http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=14654890 I recommend the efax free trial offer, easy to join and cancel.
I know this is a pointless argument, and it's getting pretty far off topic.
For the record, I'll agree that the sentence you quoted was somewhat exaggerated. Yes, the US has some fucked up laws, especially our drug laws. I never said the US was a paradise. I'll agree that many developed countries are as free or even somewhat freer in some ways.
My point though, is that people who complain that the US is this horrible nightmare of political repression aren't reflecting the reality of the situation. This thread is in response to someone saying that, based on what they read on Slashdot they believe that they are freer in Cuba than in the US.
Yep. An " inevitable conversation with the men in black". How absolutely terrifying.
Let me ask you though.. Will they drag me away to some godforsaken dungeon and beat the soles of my feet with sticks? Will they burn me with cigarettes? Will they kidnap my entire family, never to be seen again? Will they stick me feet first into an industrial sized wood chipper?
My government won't do any of those things to me, even if I say the President should be killed, because I live in the USA. There are a lot of countries where they'll do a HELL of a lot more than have a conversation with you about that kind of thing.
I just wish some of the people who claim the US is such a totalitarian nightmare would get a BIT of a clue.. Could we be freer? Sure. But we're far freer than just about any other country you could name.
Well, I don't know, but I think that Americans are quite a bit freer than Cubans. Maybe a test?
Go out to your nearest corner and at the top of your lungs call the leader of your country a bloodthirsty, lying murderer. Say he's a babykiller and a power-crazed maniac to anyone who'll listen. Say he's worse than Hitler. Loudly call for the people to overthrow him and his corrupt totalitarian dictatorship. Hand out pamphlets that compare your country's leader to a monkey, and claim that this is unfair to monkeys. Get some like-minded folks together and make some huge disparaging papier-mache puppets that compare your country's leader to the devil while mocking his penis size, and parade through your capital city.
People do things like this in the United States all the time, and inevitably, the crushing hand of.. wait, absolutely nothing happens to them. They mostly get ignored.
I don't know what would happen if you did those things in, say, Cuba. But I wouldn't want to risk it, myself.
They come for economic freedom, of course, something they don't have in Cuba particularly. The difference between Cuba and Mexico or other Latin American countries is that Cubans ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE. This is because they don't have freedom. It's easy to talk shit about the United States, but then we're a free country. You can stay and talk shit, you can leave, you can do whatever. Try talking shit about Castro on a Cuban street corner and see what happens.
The US granting or not granting visas means nothing since Cuba will not allow the people to go. Because they ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE. If Cubans make it to US soil, they are automatically granted political asylum by the US government.
Also, your facts are wrong. It is perfectly legal for a US citizen to visit Cuba, the US just does not allow direct flights between the two countries. You have to change planes in Montreal or Mexico City. I know people who have been. It's a nice place to visit, as totalitarian dictatorships go. I wouldn't want to live there.
If Cuba is in such good shape and it's citizens enjoy such a "good life", why do so many of them risk death attempting to cross the sea to Florida in barely seaworthy boats?
I mean, if what you say is true and it is the US that is the totalitarian dictatorship, shouldn't the people requesting political asylum be traveling in the other direction?
Also, why is it that the people who tell me Cuba is such an enlightened society with low infant mortality and high literacy have NEVER, EVER actually LIVED in Cuba?
This is what passes for "Insightful" on/. these days? Yeah, great, so Castro's Cuba has low infant mortality. Hitler got the trains running on time in Germany, too. It doesn't make either of them anything more than fascist strongmen.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.. Sounds like you're saying that if he believes in the Taliban's cause he shouldn't be forced by his (naturalized) U.S. citizenship to take the opposing side.
Naturalized citizens are required to take an oath of allegiance as follows :
I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God. In acknowledgement whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.
When you swear the above oath, is it okay to break it? This isn't some Microsoft click-through EULA.
That isn't funny, SARS should be taken very seriously. You won't think it's funny if you get it and have only a 98% chance of survival.
If it continues to spread and infects us all, only 98% of us will be left alive.. Oh the humanity.
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Pff.. call me a child a few more times why don't you? You claim to want to get people to think from all angles, but all you're doing is calling me names. Who's being childish here?
Obviously my comment about the sun exploding was meant to be facetious.. or are you too much of a child to realize that? Your argument that "something could go wrong" could apply to every technological development in human history. Did Columbus decide not to attempt the Atlantic crossing because "something could go wrong"?
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I'd think reducing the costs of launching payloads to space from today's $10,000 per pound to less than $250 per pound would have some sort of benefit beyond "Because We Can".. Is that enough of a real reason for you?
But yeah, something could go wrong. Wah. Let's forget about it and all stay on Earth until the sun explodes.
According to Ain't It Cool, the original Terminator music that's in the trailer will NOT be used in the actual movie..
I hate that they'll use Brad Fidel's incredible TERMINATOR theme in the trailers to sell it, but Marco Beltrami has recently said he won't use the theme in the film. That's not fair, damn it.
Ah, so let's make it illegal, that'll solve all our problems right? In fact, let's take all the heroin addicts and lock them up at the taxpayer's expense. That's what they get for being non-productive.
As far as relying on generosity or theft, what do you think they're living on in PRISON?!? Yes, YOUR tax dollars.
Prohibition isn't working. Can we PLEASE try something else? If it doesn't work it won't be hard to make it all illegal again you know..
if drugs were legal they wouldn't cost NEARLY what they do on the black market. Most of that markup is to cover the risks. If heroin was legal, most addicts would be able to afford it by working at McDonald's.
I think possibly my biggest pet peeve is when people cite the negative effects of prohibition as a reason to keep drugs illegal.
Indeed - you only have to look at the fine examples of capitalistic ethics provided recently by companies such as Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing etc to realise how unnecessary government regulation in the free market is.
A lot of the problems with the recent Enron and WorldCom, etc. scandals were caused BY government regulation. That is, government regulation that was being written by the very companies it was supposed to control.
Corrupt and biased regulation is far, far worse than no regulation at all. The Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lays of the world may claim to lay their alllegiance at the feet of the free market, but a system where the ground rules are written and rewritten by the biggest players to ensure their own profits is far from a free market.
In theory, government regulation would be fair and impartial to all competitors. But then, in theory communism works too. The real world is quite a bit different.
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Win XP Pro Upgrade is currently $179.99 at Amazon.
I connect the output of my PS2 to an old Hauppauge WinTV card in my MAME box to play on the computer monitor. Works great, and I have NO lag trouble at all. Generally I use the setup to play DDR, so any lag would be fatal, but I don't have any and it works great.
Mmmmm, that's delicious irony.. :)
I know this is a pointless argument, and it's getting pretty far off topic.
For the record, I'll agree that the sentence you quoted was somewhat exaggerated. Yes, the US has some fucked up laws, especially our drug laws. I never said the US was a paradise. I'll agree that many developed countries are as free or even somewhat freer in some ways.
My point though, is that people who complain that the US is this horrible nightmare of political repression aren't reflecting the reality of the situation. This thread is in response to someone saying that, based on what they read on Slashdot they believe that they are freer in Cuba than in the US.
Yep. An " inevitable conversation with the men in black". How absolutely terrifying.
Let me ask you though.. Will they drag me away to some godforsaken dungeon and beat the soles of my feet with sticks? Will they burn me with cigarettes? Will they kidnap my entire family, never to be seen again? Will they stick me feet first into an industrial sized wood chipper?
My government won't do any of those things to me, even if I say the President should be killed, because I live in the USA. There are a lot of countries where they'll do a HELL of a lot more than have a conversation with you about that kind of thing.
I just wish some of the people who claim the US is such a totalitarian nightmare would get a BIT of a clue.. Could we be freer? Sure. But we're far freer than just about any other country you could name.
Well, I don't know, but I think that Americans are quite a bit freer than Cubans. Maybe a test?
Go out to your nearest corner and at the top of your lungs call the leader of your country a bloodthirsty, lying murderer. Say he's a babykiller and a power-crazed maniac to anyone who'll listen. Say he's worse than Hitler. Loudly call for the people to overthrow him and his corrupt totalitarian dictatorship. Hand out pamphlets that compare your country's leader to a monkey, and claim that this is unfair to monkeys. Get some like-minded folks together and make some huge disparaging papier-mache puppets that compare your country's leader to the devil while mocking his penis size, and parade through your capital city.
People do things like this in the United States all the time, and inevitably, the crushing hand of.. wait, absolutely nothing happens to them. They mostly get ignored.
I don't know what would happen if you did those things in, say, Cuba. But I wouldn't want to risk it, myself.
They come for economic freedom, of course, something they don't have in Cuba particularly. The difference between Cuba and Mexico or other Latin American countries is that Cubans ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE. This is because they don't have freedom. It's easy to talk shit about the United States, but then we're a free country. You can stay and talk shit, you can leave, you can do whatever. Try talking shit about Castro on a Cuban street corner and see what happens.
The US granting or not granting visas means nothing since Cuba will not allow the people to go. Because they ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE. If Cubans make it to US soil, they are automatically granted political asylum by the US government.
Also, your facts are wrong. It is perfectly legal for a US citizen to visit Cuba, the US just does not allow direct flights between the two countries. You have to change planes in Montreal or Mexico City. I know people who have been. It's a nice place to visit, as totalitarian dictatorships go. I wouldn't want to live there.
If Cuba is in such good shape and it's citizens enjoy such a "good life", why do so many of them risk death attempting to cross the sea to Florida in barely seaworthy boats?
/. these days? Yeah, great, so Castro's Cuba has low infant mortality. Hitler got the trains running on time in Germany, too. It doesn't make either of them anything more than fascist strongmen.
I mean, if what you say is true and it is the US that is the totalitarian dictatorship, shouldn't the people requesting political asylum be traveling in the other direction?
Also, why is it that the people who tell me Cuba is such an enlightened society with low infant mortality and high literacy have NEVER, EVER actually LIVED in Cuba?
This is what passes for "Insightful" on
Shared music libraries. I do this all the time, my laptop can't hold all my music, so I play it off the shared iTunes library on the desktop upstairs.
>> The OED, good book
> The plot is pretty thin. I had already guessed the ending by Chapter Q.
Yep. The zebra did it.
Type ">console" in the username box during graphical login and hit enter. Presto, text console login.
Naturalized citizens are required to take an oath of allegiance as follows :
When you swear the above oath, is it okay to break it? This isn't some Microsoft click-through EULA.
According to CNN, Hawash is a "naturalized U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent". I'm not sure how that makes Afghanistan "his country" to protect.
In virtual reality your screen can be 200 feet tall. And simulate the sticky floor and overpriced salty snacks too.
The very first hack should be a replacement for the beach ball to make it look like a pizza..
If it continues to spread and infects us all, only 98% of us will be left alive.. Oh the humanity.
Obviously my comment about the sun exploding was meant to be facetious.. or are you too much of a child to realize that? Your argument that "something could go wrong" could apply to every technological development in human history. Did Columbus decide not to attempt the Atlantic crossing because "something could go wrong"?
But yeah, something could go wrong. Wah. Let's forget about it and all stay on Earth until the sun explodes.
As far as relying on generosity or theft, what do you think they're living on in PRISON?!? Yes, YOUR tax dollars.
Prohibition isn't working. Can we PLEASE try something else? If it doesn't work it won't be hard to make it all illegal again you know..
Yeah, I know I'm off topic. Like I care.
I think possibly my biggest pet peeve is when people cite the negative effects of prohibition as a reason to keep drugs illegal.
Sounds like their database administrator shouldn't have used performer_name as the primary key.
Of course, I have a dual 1Ghz G4 with a gig of RAM so YMMV.. ;)
A lot of the problems with the recent Enron and WorldCom, etc. scandals were caused BY government regulation. That is, government regulation that was being written by the very companies it was supposed to control.
Corrupt and biased regulation is far, far worse than no regulation at all. The Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lays of the world may claim to lay their alllegiance at the feet of the free market, but a system where the ground rules are written and rewritten by the biggest players to ensure their own profits is far from a free market.
In theory, government regulation would be fair and impartial to all competitors. But then, in theory communism works too. The real world is quite a bit different.
Unfortunately, cruel and unusual punishments are prohibited by the Constitution, and this is certainly both.