I have a 5.1 speaker system in the living room. Another in my bedroom. Usually they are connected to the same source (my bedroom computer), but if I want them playing different music, I have my older laptop next to the one in the living room, so I can easily use it as a source.
When they are both on, they easily cover the apartment. If your house is bigger, just get more speaker systems. I never gave wireless any serious consideration. The wires are barely noticeable. I don't understand your wife test; she doesn't want more speakers?
Anyway, I don't see why it would have to get much more complicated than that. The only thing I could wish for is the ability to turn either of the speaker systems on/off from other places in the house. Sometimes I forget to turn off the living room set while playing the type of thing that should really only be heard in the bedroom, if you know what I mean.
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Or to make it more of a/. thing, a pyre with holograms of you and two of your already deceased mentors floating above it.
I'm also on Teksavvy. I get 200GB/month, and, as far as I've seen on the torrents, 500kB/s. Compare that with what I used to have at the same price, Rogers, with a 25GB/month cap and absolute maximum of 120kB/s. And there's no way in hell someone can convince me that any company's service (who likes money, anyway) can be worse than Rogers.
Why would college students who download gigs of mp3s/month have a problem with downloading some "illegal" pdfs? Just search for physics or math on any torrent site and see what you get. I now have digital copies of not only every physics text I've ever owned, I have digital copies of every physics text I've ever heard of.
Just wanted to mention that one should also check out Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, which has an interesting history of copyright, and the erosion of the public domain.
Any male, twenty or over and somewhat attractive, who has ever had to spend time around high school girls can tell you that they get just as stupid around guys they think are hot. We just don't notice when it's women our age 'cause we're too busy trying to think of how we can get in their pants, the same as they are.
I'm with you there. But I've heard that Wacom is making some capacitive screens. So hopefully we'll get the pressure sensitive digitizers that they already make in the same package as a capacitive touch screen.
I didn't know that but, in retrospect, it makes sense. I knew, as I watched it, that there were significant deviations from the book. But it was still funny and entertaining in the same way that I expected a Douglass Adams work to be.
I imagine it would be highly unlikely for the planet to be captured by the star and just happen to start rotating in the same plane as the star's rotation. If it were captured, it would have just as likely got an orbit whose rotation was perpendicular to the star's spin.
This is part of the argument as to why Pluto isn't a planet; it doesn't rotate in the same plane as all the other planets and sun's spin. So it's likely that it wasn't formed along with the rest of the solar system. Of course, if a planet can rotate backwards due to some close encounter with another object, I guess Pluto's orbit could have been knocked about too.
I thought almost exactly the same way, but I made the mistake of grouping all physical goods together, and all virtual goods together. With your example of the domain name and IP addresses, I can now see that virtual goods can have real value too, as long as there is real scarcity.
But thinking about it further (and maybe to play devil's advocate); what happens if two people have the same IP or domain name? Somewhere there's going to be conflict, and it's going to affect the real world. And by affect the real world, I mean by physical cause and effect between non-sentient objects. Some signals aren't going to get sent. Maybe I would argue that IP addresses and domain names are less virtual than the "property" on my hard drive which is just an arrangement of bytes. Mabye.
Isn't the meltdown happening now? That's why there's so much talking (and doing) of making draconian laws to stop people from copying infinitely copyable goods. The people who have imaginary property know their bubble is bursting. And it sure is interesting, if sometimes irritating.
Unless one needs a good conductor, the worth of gold is just as imaginary as the worth of paper money. It's not like I can eat gold, or shelter myself with it. We only think it's worth a lot because our ancestors did, and they only thought so because they were yahoos who were attracted to shiny objects.
Just because someone is a proponent of the GPL doesn't make them some holier-than-thou moral snob. If my company builds upon some GPL code which helps propel us to the front of our sector, and I insist that my competitors release the improvements they've made to the code I've written, that makes me a zealot? No, it's in my business interests to make sure that my competitors don't have an advantage that I don't. In this case, breaking the rules of the GPL.
And as an individual it's in my business interests (my business involving my personal bottom line) that open source software I use does not become deprecated because some business steals some GPL code, locks it away in their proprietary code and then charges me for it when their version of said software becomes the standard.
Finally, it seems odd that you excuse a company just because their reason for restricting your freedom is for profit, but criticize an individual because their motivation is their moral stance. What's wrong with morals? Why is the insistence that people share a less valid motivator than profit?
Wow. When this guy made his snarky remark I was on your side. But after reading the rest of your comments; goddamn you're stupid. You deserve your fucked up system. Too bad millions of other people have to suffer with it too.
And if you were living in your dumb-ass libertarian paradise, you'd be in debtors prison now.
No reason to make that much space exclusive to either OS, IMO. The actual OSs don't take up nearly that much space. Why not give Windows a more reasonable 50 to 75 GB, 25 GB for Linux, and make the rest readable/writeable by both?
Corporations that violate the GPL do so for their own profit. They sell the code that they didn't write as if were their own, they don't credit anyone else, and they don't let others see their modified code. Bad in several ways.
When I torrent some copyrighted material I'm not claiming that I made it. I'm not selling it, and I'm not keeping it from others. If I did those things, then I would be as bad as a GPL violating company.
"If it was a forum of all minority officers, and they were doing the same thing to all the crackers and honkies (ie, being racist against whites) anyone complaining about it would just be "the man" and "trying to keep them down" and violating their civil rights."
And you know this, how? Citation needed.
"It's like where I went to school. There was a black student union, a black choir and a black homecoming (run in parallel with the normal one) with their own black king and queen. "The man" didn't make these groups to segregate the whites and the blacks, the black students themselves made these organizations. Unfortunately we couldn't ever get anyone brave enough or stupid enough to try to make the white student union, choir, and homecoming."
The rest of your school was the white student union, the regular homecoming had the music and style that white people liked. If your school were mostly black, then I'd agree that it was dumb to have a BSU and black homecoming, because that's what the student body union and regular homecoming would be, but it wasn't was it? It was a mostly white school where the views and tastes of white people (so far as a skin color can be generalized) were reflected in all the official events. If other cultures wanted to do things a different way, they had to start their own organizations. And someone should have a problem with this, why?
The only thing I can objectively say is that Vista feels about as quick as XP did on my older computer. So yeah, that's not good, considering my older computer is a 1.73GHz Celeron with 1.5 gigs of ram, and my new one is a 2.1GHz Turion with 4GB of ram.
But, having said that, it certainly doesn't feel slow. I got rid of as much bloatware and extra crap as I could, which helped a lot. It doesn't feel like it gets in my way. Honestly, I wouldn't go back to XP if I could.
Of course, I would never have actually bought the damned thing if it didn't come with the computer I wanted. I'm just saying, I don't hate it. Which is a pretty good endorsement coming from me.
I agree. I installed 7, but I didn't do a fresh install. I "upgraded" from Vista. I noticed no improvements, performance wise. Which isn't a surprise, because all the extra crap that I wasn't able to get rid of when I got the laptop was still there after the upgrade to 7. When machines with 7 + bloatware start coming out, then we'll see what the performance really gains are. This is just one big hype machine, IMO. And it's working.
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I have a 5.1 speaker system in the living room. Another in my bedroom. Usually they are connected to the same source (my bedroom computer), but if I want them playing different music, I have my older laptop next to the one in the living room, so I can easily use it as a source.
When they are both on, they easily cover the apartment. If your house is bigger, just get more speaker systems. I never gave wireless any serious consideration. The wires are barely noticeable. I don't understand your wife test; she doesn't want more speakers?
Anyway, I don't see why it would have to get much more complicated than that. The only thing I could wish for is the ability to turn either of the speaker systems on/off from other places in the house. Sometimes I forget to turn off the living room set while playing the type of thing that should really only be heard in the bedroom, if you know what I mean.
Or to make it more of a /. thing, a pyre with holograms of you and two of your already deceased mentors floating above it.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. But yes, it is good to know that parents are trying to do the right thing.
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Although, I can't help but to feel a little scorn for them for not knowing the answer in the first place
I'm also on Teksavvy. I get 200GB/month, and, as far as I've seen on the torrents, 500kB/s. Compare that with what I used to have at the same price, Rogers, with a 25GB/month cap and absolute maximum of 120kB/s. And there's no way in hell someone can convince me that any company's service (who likes money, anyway) can be worse than Rogers.
...and the sound while a tad disturbing was hilarious as well.
It's true. This documentary has the actual call of the dodo. Skip forward to about 4:20.
I really wish I could laugh at your ignorance. Patriot Day started well before Obama came along.
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Why would college students who download gigs of mp3s/month have a problem with downloading some "illegal" pdfs? Just search for physics or math on any torrent site and see what you get. I now have digital copies of not only every physics text I've ever owned, I have digital copies of every physics text I've ever heard of.
Just wanted to mention that one should also check out Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, which has an interesting history of copyright, and the erosion of the public domain.
Any male, twenty or over and somewhat attractive, who has ever had to spend time around high school girls can tell you that they get just as stupid around guys they think are hot. We just don't notice when it's women our age 'cause we're too busy trying to think of how we can get in their pants, the same as they are.
I'm with you there. But I've heard that Wacom is making some capacitive screens. So hopefully we'll get the pressure sensitive digitizers that they already make in the same package as a capacitive touch screen.
Check out the google hits:
wacom+capacitive
I didn't know that but, in retrospect, it makes sense. I knew, as I watched it, that there were significant deviations from the book. But it was still funny and entertaining in the same way that I expected a Douglass Adams work to be.
I heard somewhere it's equal to the circumference of a circle divided by it's diameter...
I imagine it would be highly unlikely for the planet to be captured by the star and just happen to start rotating in the same plane as the star's rotation. If it were captured, it would have just as likely got an orbit whose rotation was perpendicular to the star's spin.
This is part of the argument as to why Pluto isn't a planet; it doesn't rotate in the same plane as all the other planets and sun's spin. So it's likely that it wasn't formed along with the rest of the solar system. Of course, if a planet can rotate backwards due to some close encounter with another object, I guess Pluto's orbit could have been knocked about too.
I thought almost exactly the same way, but I made the mistake of grouping all physical goods together, and all virtual goods together. With your example of the domain name and IP addresses, I can now see that virtual goods can have real value too, as long as there is real scarcity.
But thinking about it further (and maybe to play devil's advocate); what happens if two people have the same IP or domain name? Somewhere there's going to be conflict, and it's going to affect the real world. And by affect the real world, I mean by physical cause and effect between non-sentient objects. Some signals aren't going to get sent. Maybe I would argue that IP addresses and domain names are less virtual than the "property" on my hard drive which is just an arrangement of bytes. Mabye.
Isn't the meltdown happening now? That's why there's so much talking (and doing) of making draconian laws to stop people from copying infinitely copyable goods. The people who have imaginary property know their bubble is bursting. And it sure is interesting, if sometimes irritating.
Unless one needs a good conductor, the worth of gold is just as imaginary as the worth of paper money. It's not like I can eat gold, or shelter myself with it. We only think it's worth a lot because our ancestors did, and they only thought so because they were yahoos who were attracted to shiny objects.
Just because someone is a proponent of the GPL doesn't make them some holier-than-thou moral snob. If my company builds upon some GPL code which helps propel us to the front of our sector, and I insist that my competitors release the improvements they've made to the code I've written, that makes me a zealot? No, it's in my business interests to make sure that my competitors don't have an advantage that I don't. In this case, breaking the rules of the GPL.
And as an individual it's in my business interests (my business involving my personal bottom line) that open source software I use does not become deprecated because some business steals some GPL code, locks it away in their proprietary code and then charges me for it when their version of said software becomes the standard.
Finally, it seems odd that you excuse a company just because their reason for restricting your freedom is for profit, but criticize an individual because their motivation is their moral stance. What's wrong with morals? Why is the insistence that people share a less valid motivator than profit?
Man, do I ever hate Rogers. But I especially hate Bell. But *especially* Rogers.
Wow. When this guy made his snarky remark I was on your side. But after reading the rest of your comments; goddamn you're stupid. You deserve your fucked up system. Too bad millions of other people have to suffer with it too.
And if you were living in your dumb-ass libertarian paradise, you'd be in debtors prison now.
No reason to make that much space exclusive to either OS, IMO. The actual OSs don't take up nearly that much space. Why not give Windows a more reasonable 50 to 75 GB, 25 GB for Linux, and make the rest readable/writeable by both?
Bad analogy.
Corporations that violate the GPL do so for their own profit. They sell the code that they didn't write as if were their own, they don't credit anyone else, and they don't let others see their modified code. Bad in several ways.
When I torrent some copyrighted material I'm not claiming that I made it. I'm not selling it, and I'm not keeping it from others. If I did those things, then I would be as bad as a GPL violating company.
"If it was a forum of all minority officers, and they were doing the same thing to all the crackers and honkies (ie, being racist against whites) anyone complaining about it would just be "the man" and "trying to keep them down" and violating their civil rights."
And you know this, how? Citation needed.
"It's like where I went to school. There was a black student union, a black choir and a black homecoming (run in parallel with the normal one) with their own black king and queen. "The man" didn't make these groups to segregate the whites and the blacks, the black students themselves made these organizations. Unfortunately we couldn't ever get anyone brave enough or stupid enough to try to make the white student union, choir, and homecoming."
The rest of your school was the white student union, the regular homecoming had the music and style that white people liked. If your school were mostly black, then I'd agree that it was dumb to have a BSU and black homecoming, because that's what the student body union and regular homecoming would be, but it wasn't was it? It was a mostly white school where the views and tastes of white people (so far as a skin color can be generalized) were reflected in all the official events. If other cultures wanted to do things a different way, they had to start their own organizations. And someone should have a problem with this, why?
The only thing I can objectively say is that Vista feels about as quick as XP did on my older computer. So yeah, that's not good, considering my older computer is a 1.73GHz Celeron with 1.5 gigs of ram, and my new one is a 2.1GHz Turion with 4GB of ram.
But, having said that, it certainly doesn't feel slow. I got rid of as much bloatware and extra crap as I could, which helped a lot. It doesn't feel like it gets in my way. Honestly, I wouldn't go back to XP if I could.
Of course, I would never have actually bought the damned thing if it didn't come with the computer I wanted. I'm just saying, I don't hate it. Which is a pretty good endorsement coming from me.
I agree. I installed 7, but I didn't do a fresh install. I "upgraded" from Vista. I noticed no improvements, performance wise. Which isn't a surprise, because all the extra crap that I wasn't able to get rid of when I got the laptop was still there after the upgrade to 7. When machines with 7 + bloatware start coming out, then we'll see what the performance really gains are. This is just one big hype machine, IMO. And it's working.