I work on a ton of computers without acceleration- literally I manage a whole room full of computers to process data- and none of them have accelerated graphics cards because for business apps you don't need them- but to upgrade them we are looking at- what 12k - 15k for the room? and that is just my dept- we start moving out to the rest of the company and you are looking at a 150k to 200k price tag for our startup- for what- to use an incompatable app?
the better way would be to allow no campaign contributions period. there was a bill that attempted this in california but the advertisements twisted what the bill was about-
you can have no campaign contributions if:
1. the FCC pushes networks into giving balanced coverage to ALL candidates (like they are supposed to - including independents) and nationally sponsoring debates so that we don't have debates that are owned by say fox news or such.
2. an allotment is given to the candidates for physical materials (signs, stickers, etc.)
3. free web coverage and services are provided equally to all candidates (possibly creating a centralized presidentialvote.gov or some such with internal pages for all candidates and their stances on issues etc.).
4. this is the only way that they can campaign- it is the only $ that can be spent.
if this were done we would have a fair, balanced election and there would be no corporate pandering in the end- also it would keep staffing from paying high end mudslingers and private investigators and such.
actually it is the opposite I believe- from what I read if the index is longer, you have more testosterone during development- it is the way to predict athletic performance
I didn't know that circuit city was still operating- the have pretty much closed all of their stores here in the bay area- or at least I don't know of any that still exist.
with dell it was pretty much to be expected, if they are going to be selling at wal-mart they are going to need to do a restructure to their assembly line and concentrate a larger amount of their business on pre-packaged systems vs. custom systems as you get from their website.
as far as motorola- they will do better once the whole super pretty smartphone dust settles and people see what crap the iphone is.
The thing that I find ironic and sad is that the same people here that constantly talk about "free enterprise" and "competition" are constantly bowing to lobbyists who are pushing pro corporate laws in our country and beyond our borders. If these people really did support an open marketplace then things like DMCA wouldn't happen because corporations and conglomerates like the **AA should be using competition with P2P and youtube and other sources to generate a more enviable product or a reason to purchase the product rather than changing the criminal code to force consumers to use content as they see fit. Open source applications haven't shut down the software market and linux hasn't crushed microsoft they are still thriving because their business model takes into account that there will be a certain amount of loss and they instead make logical b2b supported deals and try to make a more appealing product to consumers if they are using legit products (even though vista right now is a piece of crap). I am a musician and last night I was going over this with a couple of other independent musicians over dinner- the possibility of creating a not for profit centralized online distribution service that you could purchase or DL music for free as well as selling related merchandise with the focus being that if you don't want to purchase a CD- go ahead and download the tracks but if you can afford to spend something you can pretty much put more $ in our pocket by buying a shirt or some other item and get more out of it- hoping to build consumer support by expanding what we deliver at no real cost to us since in the long run we know that it will end up on p2p anyways and by not exploiting the fact that will be, we close off potential customer base for expanded products.
I listen to a lot of experimental/DnB/powernoise- squarewave distortion and white/pink noise as well as a lot of hihats show up as lossy as well as a ton of other things
a 128k rip in itunes will never be as good as a 44.1/16bit track (PCM)- in order to get out of the range of audible lossy compression you have to go (depending on the music) 192k or higher. 44.1/16bit is the supposed range of our hearing (though there is still noticeable accuracy loss between 30khz and 44.1khz)and the 192k reflects a similar accuracy , though it is a rough number so some things still don't cut it which is why there is 96k/24bit sound
at my work what we do is a 3x overwrite and then we mangle the platters with a hammer and pliers in order to destroy the drives- seems like a pretty solid way
it would officially be incest since it is a genetic twin- and it would be homosexual since it would be the same sex- unless there was a modification during gestation- which would be interesting since you would have the same genetic information with the exception of the xx/xy chromosome- this would be interesting as well because if you had a kid together, it should as well be a clone since all of your genes would match.
MMO's are basically glorified chat rooms in the end. I never understood the MMORPG thing since it lacks all of the the "G" and most ppl don't stick to the "RP". I am a big RPG fan, but have never liked MMO's because when I get into an RPG I like to sit down and immerse myself in a story and a world that is authentic to the story. I don't want to immerse myself in a big chat room of ppl that look like character type X or Y and act like a 13 year old kid- I want to see the characters act like characters and work towards a story arc.
I think that the general thing that people overlook is that "fair use" was created to discern "pirates" from those copying the work for private use. In the previous sentence by "pirates" I mean those attempting to copy and distribute for profit. P2P is not profit driven and has never traditionally been so. The problem with "profit loss" due to P2P is that it is all projected profit. If I were say, Sony I could make the crappiest movie in the world and blame it's profit loss on P2P regardless of if someone were to pay for it or not. Honestly I can't say that availability of "illegally copied media" has ever stopped me from buying a cd or a dvd that I want to own or prevented me from seeing a movie in the theater that I want to see regardless of whether I download it or not, though overpricing has- and usually leads me to buying a used dvd or cd which does cost profits to the **AA.
attended only the saturday of the celebration IV convention in LA- it was a lot of fun- though I have to say there were a lot of conflicts in scheduling and instruction/directions of what was going on- the fans were awesome- the vendors were all cool and the clebs were all really cool- but whoever was managing the whole deal didn't seem to do well to accommodate non-insiders since there were prolly close to a 1/4 of a million people there with over 80k fan club members attending. some rooms were too small to accommodate, some major events were all going on at the same time- too much priority was given to fan club members when attending events. they did not allow standing room in any of the halls- they should have had some sort of simulcasting of the larger events outside of the venues. etc
I am constantly amazed at the lack of oceanic knowledge that people have including from educated people at my work:
they have said when I lectured them about it....
most tuna are from farms.
oysters are not alive.
pollutants don't spread through the ocean they stay in a confined area.
we can't deplete fish populations by overfishing because they repopulate quickly.
when you cut sharkfins off and throw them back the sharks are okay.
no one uses driftnets anymore.
no one goes whaling anymore.
----and a number of others.
yes and no- it requires more than user generated uploads and has speed considerations- if there was a service that hosted catalog and consistent speeds (bt seeds) AND user generated content (with no drm/timeouts on media) that had a subscription that would take off. the only problem is that there are a lot of things that I would like to get that are not **AA affiliated- in fact the majority of what I want isn't. If I were to go on the site and have only the majors it would suck- they would need to sell their licensing to a 3rd party vendor that would be able to get licensing from indies as well since a lot of independent record companies and film companies would not want to join the **AA but would sign distro deals with a 3rd party that hosts both.
it is funny but the version of XP that I am using right now is from a dell desktop (my machine is self built)- I had a bunch of bloatware on my original XP install disc so I got this one from work and used my license on it- there was 1 folder on C: called dell support and the rest of this install had absolutely no extra crap on it at all. I noticed when reformatting a bunch of machines at work that the large OEM versions of pro that came with our palettes were totally clean. As for my laptop that I purchased recently(lenovo) it had the drivers in the root of C: in a folder called "drivers for reinstall"- pretty cool- before I ever used it I went through it and cleaned extraneous crap from it- tested it out and imaged the c: and created a bootable restore for it so that I can do like the toshiba restore.
this is what I see as a very good thing- both the selling of linux machines and the move by dell not to force vista down ppl's throats- I have been a windows guy the majority of my adult life (when I was younger though I was a die hard commodore fan- I loved me an amiga) I want linux to go mainstream because I want app support for what I do to be in in linux so that I can move to it. If it goes mainstream then developers for apps that I use (audio mainly- but also 3d and video) will support linux. As it stands right now for me linux is a toy, but I can't do any real work with it at home (I use it at work because I handle databases at work).
wait a minute here- what is the rating? pending yes? how is he freaking about this before the rating is released- what if it comes in under an "M" then isn't it like suing for your teenage son going to a PG rated movie?
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I think that depends on whose body we are looking at....
when I saw protection against bricks I thought it was talking about 3rd party hacked firmware fails on a device....
I work on a ton of computers without acceleration- literally I manage a whole room full of computers to process data- and none of them have accelerated graphics cards because for business apps you don't need them- but to upgrade them we are looking at- what 12k - 15k for the room? and that is just my dept- we start moving out to the rest of the company and you are looking at a 150k to 200k price tag for our startup- for what- to use an incompatable app?
the better way would be to allow no campaign contributions period. there was a bill that attempted this in california but the advertisements twisted what the bill was about- you can have no campaign contributions if: 1. the FCC pushes networks into giving balanced coverage to ALL candidates (like they are supposed to - including independents) and nationally sponsoring debates so that we don't have debates that are owned by say fox news or such. 2. an allotment is given to the candidates for physical materials (signs, stickers, etc.) 3. free web coverage and services are provided equally to all candidates (possibly creating a centralized presidentialvote.gov or some such with internal pages for all candidates and their stances on issues etc.). 4. this is the only way that they can campaign- it is the only $ that can be spent. if this were done we would have a fair, balanced election and there would be no corporate pandering in the end- also it would keep staffing from paying high end mudslingers and private investigators and such.
actually it is the opposite I believe- from what I read if the index is longer, you have more testosterone during development- it is the way to predict athletic performance
cool so I can have gauntlets like in cleopatra 2525- how else am I supposed to fight the bailies?
I didn't know that circuit city was still operating- the have pretty much closed all of their stores here in the bay area- or at least I don't know of any that still exist. with dell it was pretty much to be expected, if they are going to be selling at wal-mart they are going to need to do a restructure to their assembly line and concentrate a larger amount of their business on pre-packaged systems vs. custom systems as you get from their website. as far as motorola- they will do better once the whole super pretty smartphone dust settles and people see what crap the iphone is.
The thing that I find ironic and sad is that the same people here that constantly talk about "free enterprise" and "competition" are constantly bowing to lobbyists who are pushing pro corporate laws in our country and beyond our borders. If these people really did support an open marketplace then things like DMCA wouldn't happen because corporations and conglomerates like the **AA should be using competition with P2P and youtube and other sources to generate a more enviable product or a reason to purchase the product rather than changing the criminal code to force consumers to use content as they see fit. Open source applications haven't shut down the software market and linux hasn't crushed microsoft they are still thriving because their business model takes into account that there will be a certain amount of loss and they instead make logical b2b supported deals and try to make a more appealing product to consumers if they are using legit products (even though vista right now is a piece of crap). I am a musician and last night I was going over this with a couple of other independent musicians over dinner- the possibility of creating a not for profit centralized online distribution service that you could purchase or DL music for free as well as selling related merchandise with the focus being that if you don't want to purchase a CD- go ahead and download the tracks but if you can afford to spend something you can pretty much put more $ in our pocket by buying a shirt or some other item and get more out of it- hoping to build consumer support by expanding what we deliver at no real cost to us since in the long run we know that it will end up on p2p anyways and by not exploiting the fact that will be, we close off potential customer base for expanded products.
oh I get it now- so you use it like this: microsoft likes FLOPS like vista not vista is a FLOP OS -right?
"The harmonics in brass instroments and symbols" maybe joseph campbell is in the orchestra
I listen to a lot of experimental/DnB/powernoise- squarewave distortion and white/pink noise as well as a lot of hihats show up as lossy as well as a ton of other things
a 128k rip in itunes will never be as good as a 44.1/16bit track (PCM)- in order to get out of the range of audible lossy compression you have to go (depending on the music) 192k or higher. 44.1/16bit is the supposed range of our hearing (though there is still noticeable accuracy loss between 30khz and 44.1khz)and the 192k reflects a similar accuracy , though it is a rough number so some things still don't cut it which is why there is 96k/24bit sound
at my work what we do is a 3x overwrite and then we mangle the platters with a hammer and pliers in order to destroy the drives- seems like a pretty solid way
it would officially be incest since it is a genetic twin- and it would be homosexual since it would be the same sex- unless there was a modification during gestation- which would be interesting since you would have the same genetic information with the exception of the xx/xy chromosome- this would be interesting as well because if you had a kid together, it should as well be a clone since all of your genes would match.
so long as they don't float the laws this way I crack and rip forensic data for litigants. I would need to find a new job
MMO's are basically glorified chat rooms in the end. I never understood the MMORPG thing since it lacks all of the the "G" and most ppl don't stick to the "RP". I am a big RPG fan, but have never liked MMO's because when I get into an RPG I like to sit down and immerse myself in a story and a world that is authentic to the story. I don't want to immerse myself in a big chat room of ppl that look like character type X or Y and act like a 13 year old kid- I want to see the characters act like characters and work towards a story arc.
thank you for KOTOR and as much as we all hate microsoft- fable was incredible
I think that the general thing that people overlook is that "fair use" was created to discern "pirates" from those copying the work for private use. In the previous sentence by "pirates" I mean those attempting to copy and distribute for profit. P2P is not profit driven and has never traditionally been so. The problem with "profit loss" due to P2P is that it is all projected profit. If I were say, Sony I could make the crappiest movie in the world and blame it's profit loss on P2P regardless of if someone were to pay for it or not. Honestly I can't say that availability of "illegally copied media" has ever stopped me from buying a cd or a dvd that I want to own or prevented me from seeing a movie in the theater that I want to see regardless of whether I download it or not, though overpricing has- and usually leads me to buying a used dvd or cd which does cost profits to the **AA.
attended only the saturday of the celebration IV convention in LA- it was a lot of fun- though I have to say there were a lot of conflicts in scheduling and instruction/directions of what was going on- the fans were awesome- the vendors were all cool and the clebs were all really cool- but whoever was managing the whole deal didn't seem to do well to accommodate non-insiders since there were prolly close to a 1/4 of a million people there with over 80k fan club members attending. some rooms were too small to accommodate, some major events were all going on at the same time- too much priority was given to fan club members when attending events. they did not allow standing room in any of the halls- they should have had some sort of simulcasting of the larger events outside of the venues. etc
I am constantly amazed at the lack of oceanic knowledge that people have including from educated people at my work: they have said when I lectured them about it.... most tuna are from farms. oysters are not alive. pollutants don't spread through the ocean they stay in a confined area. we can't deplete fish populations by overfishing because they repopulate quickly. when you cut sharkfins off and throw them back the sharks are okay. no one uses driftnets anymore. no one goes whaling anymore. ----and a number of others.
yes and no- it requires more than user generated uploads and has speed considerations- if there was a service that hosted catalog and consistent speeds (bt seeds) AND user generated content (with no drm/timeouts on media) that had a subscription that would take off. the only problem is that there are a lot of things that I would like to get that are not **AA affiliated- in fact the majority of what I want isn't. If I were to go on the site and have only the majors it would suck- they would need to sell their licensing to a 3rd party vendor that would be able to get licensing from indies as well since a lot of independent record companies and film companies would not want to join the **AA but would sign distro deals with a 3rd party that hosts both.
yeah I know what you mean- I had an ethernet driver disc that tried to check online for updates before it could install the driver
it is funny but the version of XP that I am using right now is from a dell desktop (my machine is self built)- I had a bunch of bloatware on my original XP install disc so I got this one from work and used my license on it- there was 1 folder on C: called dell support and the rest of this install had absolutely no extra crap on it at all. I noticed when reformatting a bunch of machines at work that the large OEM versions of pro that came with our palettes were totally clean. As for my laptop that I purchased recently(lenovo) it had the drivers in the root of C: in a folder called "drivers for reinstall"- pretty cool- before I ever used it I went through it and cleaned extraneous crap from it- tested it out and imaged the c: and created a bootable restore for it so that I can do like the toshiba restore.
this is what I see as a very good thing- both the selling of linux machines and the move by dell not to force vista down ppl's throats- I have been a windows guy the majority of my adult life (when I was younger though I was a die hard commodore fan- I loved me an amiga) I want linux to go mainstream because I want app support for what I do to be in in linux so that I can move to it. If it goes mainstream then developers for apps that I use (audio mainly- but also 3d and video) will support linux. As it stands right now for me linux is a toy, but I can't do any real work with it at home (I use it at work because I handle databases at work).
wait a minute here- what is the rating? pending yes? how is he freaking about this before the rating is released- what if it comes in under an "M" then isn't it like suing for your teenage son going to a PG rated movie?