Sounds like these guys are not aftercooling the bulbs. Most projectors I am familiar with allow one to shut it off, and if it remains plugged in, will keep its fan on until whatever internal thermal parameters for prevention of heatsoaking are satisfied.
Allowing the bulb to heat soak is just as bad as running it without cooling.
Got an iBook, do 10 to 15 large driver builds/day with it -- no problems *at all*. Most reliable machine I have ever owned (though these two new VAIOs are starting to compete -- nice to see MS finally get the reliability on).
I thought there was a midwestern outfit that had solved this problem some time ago, and dissappeared? They were going to use nuclear rocket engines to carry satellites to space on the cheap (minimal fuel weight). They had someway mastered the art of not ejecting radioactive particulate from the reactor core that was heating the hydrogen...
I would agree though that in the unlikely event Apple goes x86 (of any flavor), that it will not be your standard x86. The only similarities will be the hardware. The BIOS, expansion card ROMs, everything, will be unlike any Wintel expansion device seen in the x86 industry. The entire theory of FCode is that the BIOS of a expansion card will run on any machine that has a PCI bus, no matter the proc. You just need the FCode interpreter built into the system bios.
The PPC line is quite healthy actually, whether Apple decides to buy from Motorola or IBM is another matter. Can you say Power4 IBM 64bit proc running a in a mega Mac workstation? My, my, where have all the little PC multigigahertz procs run to now? I thought you could see PPC as a future.
Besides, PPC may not be able to put out bus saturating sludge like a Intel/AMD chip, but it still wins in Math, and is one of the reasons that Apple continues to sell into the Pro graphics market. It also has a truly portable version that consumes not-much-power compared to the mobile x86 procs, and still provides a good experience to the user.
Your comment sounds like, "Unsafe sex never hurt me, 'cept for that on chick who gave me herpes. But hey, you only get that once!"
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95, the first release, was atrocious. Gradually enough patches and services packs fixed it up. Then came Win95SR2. This code was good stuff. Never had alot problems with it. Then came 98 -- it sucked. 98SE was rock solid (unfortunately, $100 upgrade for no more features, just reliability increase). Then WinME -- ick. How did this get out of QA, one wonders.
NT4 and Win2K have been great to me. Just use WHQL'd drivers for everything and your problems vanish (well, at least for my usage patterns). NT4 reliability was cyclical in service pack releases, but at 6a, it was rock solid for a desktop OS.
NT4 and Win2K and for the most part Windows 98SE, were OSs that I could sit in front of and get work done and not worry about the machine dying of some ill conceived crash from Windows. A feeling I had only known before as a Solaris workstation user. I'm not sure what some of the people here used nt4/win2k on that gave them such a bad experience or bad uptime for a workstation, but your habits must not fall to the areas as mine, as I don't hit them.
What about Linux you ask, since this is slashdot. Well, my experience with linux as a server has been that the kernel and daemon apps like samba and the appleshare IP stuff are rock solid, handling heavy loads and delivering long uptimes. But the "modern window managers" like KDE and GNome suck bad, like the bad versions of Windows I mentioned above. I never know when the window manager is going to die, leaving me with the only choice of CTRL-ALT-BKSPC to get out (and sometimes that even doesn't work, I have to ssh into the machine and kill X the hard way). I may reinstall X on a machine in the near future, but I am staying well away from the new glitzy window managers. They are all up on features, down on performance and reliability.
No offense, but you feel as if everyone should have h4x0r boxes in every room of the house. NOT!
A box in the "den" must:
1) Make no sound.
2) Really needs a business-like VFD with brightness controls (not some cheesy LCD)
3) Runs efficiently (unless its a PA and under duress) so it can be left on continuously
4) Engineered as a component, not slack like a audio card, and has true RCA level outs, not 3 levels of possible volume control (typical: software control in the decoder, level control on the card, and finally a volume control on the PA/Speakers - instead, match RCA level out, and that's it)
5) Low noise - nothing about any of the Linux fanless boxes I have seen says anything about "high quality audio out" (some of us do VBR rips so there is almost no drop in quality)
While I also doubt that the Audiotron can cut it, your solution will get nowhere close to the proper levels of refinement.
Basically, this calls for a CPU/decoder/ethernet/dac/ram/rom on one chip, to minimize radiated noise. Basically, this is a description of the dolby ac-3 decoders in a modern receiver (minus the ethernet adapter - but you can do a optical feed in -- maybe thats where the net-sprites like Audiotron should come in). So why aren't we ripping to AC3? It's miles ahead of WMA and MP3 anyway.... I mean, how often do you see a movie with multitrack MP3 or WMA audio?
they are owned by money, not the other way around. the things you own, end up owning you. example: ever seen someone who owns a ferarri not get murderously angry & violent when they see that someone has scratched their car? its not because something like that really matters, its because their self worth is enveloped entirely in their belongings.
I would argue that this is not the case... instead it works more like this. Person A buys Ferrari because they are into cars, person A pays alot of money. Person A further goes out of his way to park the car in such a way that other don't even need to park close by.
Person B driving POS that he cares less about parks beside Ferrari and scratches it and dings the door.
Person B just dropped all respect for Person A's personal property. Where is person B's God given right to destroy someone else's property? I think person A would be fully within their rights to sue Person B for the damages. Perhaps person B can respect person X's property next time if a financial incentive is added.
If you know that you are driving a car, either you're an automobile engineer, or the automobile engineers have failed to protect you from their work.
WRONG! A more correct analogy would be "if you have to adjust the injector pulse widths and spark advance curves as you are driving your car down the road, you're a automotive engineer, or the automobile engineers failed to protect you from their work". Automobiles contain enormously complex subsystems, all presented to you by a ignition switch and steering wheel. All you have to do is take it to the dealer for maintenance every 3k miles.
Or, if you know that you are writing characters, you are either an scribe, or the scribes have failed to protect you from their work.
WRONG! This doesn't even seem logical. Characters are hardly complex interactive systems with a simple interface. You can't shield yourself from language if you want to present a complex idea. You are providing the complexity in the system. The characters themselves are rather simple.
With that, I agree with the original poster, we should click the switch and the system should go. Period. It shouldn't matter if there is Windows or Linux running, I just need my steering wheel and ignition switch.
I think MS has been making a good show of it since Win95. Not perfect, just like a car, once in a while I may need to add a little oil or coolant myself, but all in all, it basically works. With Linux and continuing with the car analogy, I have to install the horn, the brakes, battery, and ECM, even though it may have just came brand new from the factory. And usually with the manual for a 2 year old model. Except my model and parts are all new and different from the pictures, text, and diagrams in the manual. Sure, I can handle that, but with Windows, even if it doesn't ship with a particular driver, is much easier to bring to a fully operational state.
So if we cut off all food aid to Iraq tomorrow unless Saddam complied, Saddam would be the only one to blame for the mass famine? That's the logical extension of your argument.
At some level the US has to accept responsibility. Their blockade causes mass deaths, including thousands of innocent children.
So you are suggesting we do something about it other than a peaceful blockade?
Sure, we'd love to put a bullet in his brain, but we long ago gave up that method of equalization.
You are a putrid and disgusting excuse for a human being, I think. I doubt there are many here that disagree with me.
From what I see on TV, if Israelis are bastards then Palestinians are twice as much. And the Arabs from surrounding countries 3 times as much as the Palestinians.
The Palestinians find great pleasure in seeing a Jew die. So much so that they will kill themselves to get the job done. Israel could very well vaporize the entire "Palestinian State", but they have not found that to be in their best interests, instead, even after repeated Jewish deaths, have attempted to come to the peace table time after time.
The Arabs surrounding "Palestine" are even worse -- they could have carved out a lot for the Palestinian state to peacefully coexist in the region, or taken in the Palestinian population, but they have done neither. Instead they have found it much easier to fund the Arafatic problem in the region. It keeps the Palestinians out of their borders and constantly injures Israel -- a package deal for surrounding countries that neither want Palestinians nor a strong Israel.
You my friend are just as much a product of Iraqi propaganda as some here are of US propaganda. It's good to see the propaganda war is also effective in claiming its victims, too.
Every single person on the planet, with the exception of you, know that he has intentionally starved the people for the simple reason to suppress rebellion. You see, when Iraq started to collapse, Saddam knew he was up that peculiarly brown colored and very smelly creek, and not a paddle in the boat to see. So, the logical response to suppress rebellion was to starve the population, meanwhile, blame the evil Americans, and cut oil deals on the side and buy all sorts of neato weapons. With the expenditures of money that magically dissappeared in Iraq, he could have more than easily repaired essential infrastructure and fed the children, but feeding the children does not play to his hand, and therefore those kids will continue to suffer.
Iraqi gov't will never be good for the children of Iraq until Saddam's body is placed on the funeral pyre, and likewise his greedy bastard cronies.
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First there is the reference in revelations, for those who believe, but if you don't, take a look at some facts.
Over and over again we are conditioned to believe that our government has our best interests in mind, and only wants to improve our convenience with ID systems, all the while gathering enormous amounts of data that is continuously generated and offered by the citizens of this nation, so they can better plan our cities, etc. But truth be known -- take a look back at RedWitchHunt days of our nation, and genetic purification -- all ID data usually does is allow someone to have a bit of data over on someone else. I know several Russians who were unfortunate to be here during those sad times. Their SSN numbers and linked nationality data were in fact used against them. You say it won't happen again? Whatever... say, I have some land down in Florida I'd like to sell ya... you are just the idi...errr... customer for this special land I have been looking for!
I guess as with all such schemes that deal with the ID of the average citizen, we have once again gotten comfortable with all the easy things that a hash function applied to database key can bring (be it hashed alphabetically on paper, molten silicon switches (tubes), or silicon die with metal on top). Government now believes we are ready to be ID'd with precision, and then additionally, easily located. What happens then when the wrong people get this data, sort of like McCarthy-ism? They know with absolute precision who you are, where you live, and all they have to do is key you into the global routing system (PING) and wham, they can drive the paddy wagon right to your door for easy, no-muss pickup. Say what you want about the wonders about ID technology, nothing about it turns me on. DNA is good enough, after all, the cops are not supposed to have easy jobs. They don't need to find me unless I performed a "crime against humanity" anyway.
So whatever.... if you want someone to know your every thought and move, then fine. Oh, I forgot, this is Richard Stallman's harem. You wouldn't understand, that just as with gun control, the very people who would be best ID'd and tracked are the very ones who will be the ones that stay under (or over) the system. When average people will figure this out instead of mewling in line for the latest public safety/super-duper-consumer convenience fad, then perhaps we will have a truly safe society where the line in the sand over privacy will be clearly drawn.
Additionally, I remember one poster endorsing the idea that a ID system that eliminated privacy would be the great equalizer. You, my son, are no more brilliant than the doorstop my cat knaws on nightly. There will always be those outside of the system, and anyone outside of the system and not subject to its laws, can dominate/play said system ot their sole advantage. Start using your brain, and quit thinking like a socialist. Any communal equalization system will end in failure. It always does, always will. I'm not sure what the blissful fascination with socialism is.... yeah, it looks good on paper, just like a dot com, but it sucks in real life.
I am now wearing a fire suit, and the halon is near. Bring it on!
First off, since Dolby has offered to talk licensing, the authors of the code should. I expect Dolby would be conducive to talks, especially given the tone of the letter.
Secondly, is that Dolby makes cash from the Dolby Double D symbol on receivers and DVD players. They invest alot of money into continually refining their audio perceptual model. If BSD code is allowed to take the Dolby emblem, without some sort of revision of the licensing, then someone else can take the BSD code and incorporate it into a receiver, and place the Dolby symbol on their receiver without paying a dime to Dolby. This is Dolby's concern, of that I am sure. I expect Dolby would like to work out some deal where the code can only carry the Dolby compatible symbol/phrase/various trademarks/etc. if the code is not used in a embedded audio application (such as consumer equipment). They make money on the encoders, of course, but not nearly as much as the few 100,000 Dolby surround receivers sold here in the US and elsewhere every year.
Finally, I am glad that Dolby makes a tax on these components -- their perceptual models get better and better. Sure, its not audiophile grade, but it blows every other codec in existance out of the water (WM, MP3, blah, blag, blah), and it was first introduced years ago. DTS is decent, when I have heard it in theatres, so they are a alternative codec, however, if they weren't bottom rung player in the surround game, they'd be sending cease/desist letter too. If Dolby profits are removed, then the models do not improve, a new standard steps in that is closed completely, and stays on the film reel, and the consumers will be condemned to sucky present day tech forever.
Hmmh, earplugs are overhyped by those who do not suffer from chronic swimmers ear. I can't wear earplugs for even one day, or I'll end up with ear infections that swell my ear so severely that I can't even get the plugs in the next day. A coupla days with just the loosest fitting earphones possible, also results in the same issues. Living with them in my ears every night for 5 months -- I'd take planet earth anyday. No trips worth that.
It's FAST not QUICK (for a bike), as is to be expected of a turbine powered vehicle.
I think the street legal cycle horsepower record is held by a piston engine design, with turbocharging, putting roughly 475hp to the wheels. It could smoke this turbine in the quarter pretty handily -- if you have the brass to try it.
Also commenting on another post - 11.x seconds in the quarter doesn't sound like a 777hp Viper. There are '37 Coupes (real metal here, folks), that will run the quarter in 10 seconds, and they are powered by inline 6 cylinders with turbos. At least one that is documented can be driven too and from the track...
And if you really want to see the dotted line turn into a solid one real quick -- get yourself a Dutwieller Buick 3.8L Turbo. Much more comfortable than a crotch rocket and you could dust this whiner handily.
However, pulling your superbike up to the diesel pump is priceless.
I heard somewhere that if we planted the entire surface of the North American continent with corn/hemp/etc. and harvested it, it wouldn't amount to much in the fuel tanks of America's economic engine. For now, the black stuff is the best stuff. Its very hard to beat the energy density and resource extraction efficiency of oil.
My take on onboard power generation would be a small thermo-electric generator on the muffler of the motor, if you couldn't find a handy camcorder battery, that is. Thermo-electric would be quite happy in this application. It would look much similar to the mini-mufflers found on model aircraft engines. This could keep a small set of startac batteries topped off for occasional telemetry reporting and route checking.
For normal flight control, I'd use pendelum controls to keep the flight stable. Maybe a inertial switch to detect overly violent maneuvers that would wake the control module to apply course correction or such. Otherwise, keep the control module in hibernation, and have it wake at preset times to check its current position and feed in any course corrections.
I find it even more hilarious that some folks can decend so deep into their own athiestic egos, like you, and lump biblical faith as a characteristic of a demographic of people you'd rather ignore, as if they are unavoidably linked. If these people were the trully faithful, then you wouldn't hear about so many "trailer trash ordeals". Additionally, not every human being who lives in a manufactured home on this planet is "trailer-trash".
Not every hardworking, honest person on the planet can afford a real house. As a matter of fact, I am here-by establishing a new stereotype along the lines of your reasoning - "athiestic apartment trash". You know, mixin' it up 90210 style all the time, having drunkin' parties, and swingin'. If anything, more city dwellers fall in line with the image city dwellers would like to relegate to ALL trailer dwellers.
Why did I bother posting? You are obviously ignorant and needed enlightenment.
Its a virtual sound driver, can even speed up the dump process by signalling much faster than real life sound cards.
I don't work for these guys but I bought it several years ago, and grab the upgrades (I get for lifetime), and it ROCKS. Very nifty for grabbing newsbites, etc., from webcasts.
This only tells me that JLG was not shrewd enough in his dealings with Apple. If the threat of a lawsuit leads a OS company to drop support for an entire line of computers, and relegate itself to being a worthless OS (BeIA - that's funny! as my Baby Furby would say), then I wouldn't want that OS in the first place. Secondly, I don't understand the following BeOS has in the first place. I installed it -- then promptly uninstalled it. It was completely backwards and only had frame buffer support on a ubiquitous and generic accelerator chip (NeoMagic). That chip had been out a year (everything is that IBM puts in their thinkpads, so they can get refined drivers). It also didn't support a 3com ethernet adapter (3c579), and didn't support a ESS Solo 1 audio adapter. In final, all this hardware had open specs and drivers in Linux at the time, but were not supported in BeOS. I call that *completely useless*. I also call BeIA a running joke so that JLG can keep his burned-out operation in VC funds. I pity the VCs who are going to end up burning in a financial hell over his pooh OS.
I don't know about UCITA, but I have read the reactionary comments here on slashdot, and it appears that there will be more stringent controls on software quality and licensing at the developer and user ends. To this effect, why can GPL not route around this? If GPL is a globally acknowledged license, then GPL software should be able to just say somewhere inside it that it is above the laws of all nations states, or whatever.
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Sounds like these guys are not aftercooling the bulbs. Most projectors I am familiar with allow one to shut it off, and if it remains plugged in, will keep its fan on until whatever internal thermal parameters for prevention of heatsoaking are satisfied.
Allowing the bulb to heat soak is just as bad as running it without cooling.
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Got an iBook, do 10 to 15 large driver builds/day with it -- no problems *at all*. Most reliable machine I have ever owned (though these two new VAIOs are starting to compete -- nice to see MS finally get the reliability on).
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I thought there was a midwestern outfit that had solved this problem some time ago, and dissappeared? They were going to use nuclear rocket engines to carry satellites to space on the cheap (minimal fuel weight). They had someway mastered the art of not ejecting radioactive particulate from the reactor core that was heating the hydrogen...
Wish I could remember the name...
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I would agree though that in the unlikely event Apple goes x86 (of any flavor), that it will not be your standard x86. The only similarities will be the hardware. The BIOS, expansion card ROMs, everything, will be unlike any Wintel expansion device seen in the x86 industry. The entire theory of FCode is that the BIOS of a expansion card will run on any machine that has a PCI bus, no matter the proc. You just need the FCode interpreter built into the system bios.
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The PPC line is quite healthy actually, whether Apple decides to buy from Motorola or IBM is another matter. Can you say Power4 IBM 64bit proc running a in a mega Mac workstation? My, my, where have all the little PC multigigahertz procs run to now? I thought you could see PPC as a future.
Besides, PPC may not be able to put out bus saturating sludge like a Intel/AMD chip, but it still wins in Math, and is one of the reasons that Apple continues to sell into the Pro graphics market. It also has a truly portable version that consumes not-much-power compared to the mobile x86 procs, and still provides a good experience to the user.
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Man, you suck.
Your comment sounds like, "Unsafe sex never hurt me, 'cept for that on chick who gave me herpes. But hey, you only get that once!"
TurboD
95, the first release, was atrocious. Gradually enough patches and services packs fixed it up. Then came Win95SR2. This code was good stuff. Never had alot problems with it. Then came 98 -- it sucked. 98SE was rock solid (unfortunately, $100 upgrade for no more features, just reliability increase). Then WinME -- ick. How did this get out of QA, one wonders.
NT4 and Win2K have been great to me. Just use WHQL'd drivers for everything and your problems vanish (well, at least for my usage patterns). NT4 reliability was cyclical in service pack releases, but at 6a, it was rock solid for a desktop OS.
NT4 and Win2K and for the most part Windows 98SE, were OSs that I could sit in front of and get work done and not worry about the machine dying of some ill conceived crash from Windows. A feeling I had only known before as a Solaris workstation user. I'm not sure what some of the people here used nt4/win2k on that gave them such a bad experience or bad uptime for a workstation, but your habits must not fall to the areas as mine, as I don't hit them.
What about Linux you ask, since this is slashdot. Well, my experience with linux as a server has been that the kernel and daemon apps like samba and the appleshare IP stuff are rock solid, handling heavy loads and delivering long uptimes. But the "modern window managers" like KDE and GNome suck bad, like the bad versions of Windows I mentioned above. I never know when the window manager is going to die, leaving me with the only choice of CTRL-ALT-BKSPC to get out (and sometimes that even doesn't work, I have to ssh into the machine and kill X the hard way). I may reinstall X on a machine in the near future, but I am staying well away from the new glitzy window managers. They are all up on features, down on performance and reliability.
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No offense, but you feel as if everyone should have h4x0r boxes in every room of the house. NOT!
A box in the "den" must:
1) Make no sound.
2) Really needs a business-like VFD with brightness controls (not some cheesy LCD)
3) Runs efficiently (unless its a PA and under duress) so it can be left on continuously
4) Engineered as a component, not slack like a audio card, and has true RCA level outs, not 3 levels of possible volume control (typical: software control in the decoder, level control on the card, and finally a volume control on the PA/Speakers - instead, match RCA level out, and that's it)
5) Low noise - nothing about any of the Linux fanless boxes I have seen says anything about "high quality audio out" (some of us do VBR rips so there is almost no drop in quality)
While I also doubt that the Audiotron can cut it, your solution will get nowhere close to the proper levels of refinement.
Basically, this calls for a CPU/decoder/ethernet/dac/ram/rom on one chip, to minimize radiated noise. Basically, this is a description of the dolby ac-3 decoders in a modern receiver (minus the ethernet adapter - but you can do a optical feed in -- maybe thats where the net-sprites like Audiotron should come in). So why aren't we ripping to AC3? It's miles ahead of WMA and MP3 anyway.... I mean, how often do you see a movie with multitrack MP3 or WMA audio?
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they are owned by money, not the other way around. the things you own, end up owning you. example: ever seen someone who owns a ferarri not get murderously angry & violent when they see that someone has scratched their car? its not because something like that really matters, its because their self worth is enveloped entirely in their belongings.
I would argue that this is not the case... instead it works more like this. Person A buys Ferrari because they are into cars, person A pays alot of money. Person A further goes out of his way to park the car in such a way that other don't even need to park close by.
Person B driving POS that he cares less about parks beside Ferrari and scratches it and dings the door.
Person B just dropped all respect for Person A's personal property. Where is person B's God given right to destroy someone else's property? I think person A would be fully within their rights to sue Person B for the damages. Perhaps person B can respect person X's property next time if a financial incentive is added.
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If you know that you are driving a car, either you're an automobile engineer, or the automobile engineers have failed to protect you from their work.
WRONG! A more correct analogy would be "if you have to adjust the injector pulse widths and spark advance curves as you are driving your car down the road, you're a automotive engineer, or the automobile engineers failed to protect you from their work". Automobiles contain enormously complex subsystems, all presented to you by a ignition switch and steering wheel. All you have to do is take it to the dealer for maintenance every 3k miles.
Or, if you know that you are writing characters, you are either an scribe, or the scribes have failed to protect you from their work.
WRONG! This doesn't even seem logical. Characters are hardly complex interactive systems with a simple interface. You can't shield yourself from language if you want to present a complex idea. You are providing the complexity in the system. The characters themselves are rather simple.
With that, I agree with the original poster, we should click the switch and the system should go. Period. It shouldn't matter if there is Windows or Linux running, I just need my steering wheel and ignition switch.
I think MS has been making a good show of it since Win95. Not perfect, just like a car, once in a while I may need to add a little oil or coolant myself, but all in all, it basically works. With Linux and continuing with the car analogy, I have to install the horn, the brakes, battery, and ECM, even though it may have just came brand new from the factory. And usually with the manual for a 2 year old model. Except my model and parts are all new and different from the pictures, text, and diagrams in the manual. Sure, I can handle that, but with Windows, even if it doesn't ship with a particular driver, is much easier to bring to a fully operational state.
TurboD
Especially a Dell Inspiron 8100 armed with both batteries...
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So if we cut off all food aid to Iraq tomorrow unless Saddam complied, Saddam would be the only one to blame for the mass famine? That's the logical extension of your argument.
At some level the US has to accept responsibility. Their blockade causes mass deaths, including thousands of innocent children.
So you are suggesting we do something about it other than a peaceful blockade?
Sure, we'd love to put a bullet in his brain, but we long ago gave up that method of equalization.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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You are a putrid and disgusting excuse for a human being, I think. I doubt there are many here that disagree with me.
From what I see on TV, if Israelis are bastards then Palestinians are twice as much. And the Arabs from surrounding countries 3 times as much as the Palestinians.
The Palestinians find great pleasure in seeing a Jew die. So much so that they will kill themselves to get the job done. Israel could very well vaporize the entire "Palestinian State", but they have not found that to be in their best interests, instead, even after repeated Jewish deaths, have attempted to come to the peace table time after time.
The Arabs surrounding "Palestine" are even worse -- they could have carved out a lot for the Palestinian state to peacefully coexist in the region, or taken in the Palestinian population, but they have done neither. Instead they have found it much easier to fund the Arafatic problem in the region. It keeps the Palestinians out of their borders and constantly injures Israel -- a package deal for surrounding countries that neither want Palestinians nor a strong Israel.
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You my friend are just as much a product of Iraqi propaganda as some here are of US propaganda. It's good to see the propaganda war is also effective in claiming its victims, too.
Every single person on the planet, with the exception of you, know that he has intentionally starved the people for the simple reason to suppress rebellion. You see, when Iraq started to collapse, Saddam knew he was up that peculiarly brown colored and very smelly creek, and not a paddle in the boat to see. So, the logical response to suppress rebellion was to starve the population, meanwhile, blame the evil Americans, and cut oil deals on the side and buy all sorts of neato weapons. With the expenditures of money that magically dissappeared in Iraq, he could have more than easily repaired essential infrastructure and fed the children, but feeding the children does not play to his hand, and therefore those kids will continue to suffer.
Iraqi gov't will never be good for the children of Iraq until Saddam's body is placed on the funeral pyre, and likewise his greedy bastard cronies.
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First there is the reference in revelations, for those who believe, but if you don't, take a look at some facts.
Over and over again we are conditioned to believe that our government has our best interests in mind, and only wants to improve our convenience with ID systems, all the while gathering enormous amounts of data that is continuously generated and offered by the citizens of this nation, so they can better plan our cities, etc. But truth be known -- take a look back at RedWitchHunt days of our nation, and genetic purification -- all ID data usually does is allow someone to have a bit of data over on someone else. I know several Russians who were unfortunate to be here during those sad times. Their SSN numbers and linked nationality data were in fact used against them. You say it won't happen again? Whatever... say, I have some land down in Florida I'd like to sell ya... you are just the idi...errr... customer for this special land I have been looking for!
I guess as with all such schemes that deal with the ID of the average citizen, we have once again gotten comfortable with all the easy things that a hash function applied to database key can bring (be it hashed alphabetically on paper, molten silicon switches (tubes), or silicon die with metal on top). Government now believes we are ready to be ID'd with precision, and then additionally, easily located. What happens then when the wrong people get this data, sort of like McCarthy-ism? They know with absolute precision who you are, where you live, and all they have to do is key you into the global routing system (PING) and wham, they can drive the paddy wagon right to your door for easy, no-muss pickup. Say what you want about the wonders about ID technology, nothing about it turns me on. DNA is good enough, after all, the cops are not supposed to have easy jobs. They don't need to find me unless I performed a "crime against humanity" anyway.
So whatever.... if you want someone to know your every thought and move, then fine. Oh, I forgot, this is Richard Stallman's harem. You wouldn't understand, that just as with gun control, the very people who would be best ID'd and tracked are the very ones who will be the ones that stay under (or over) the system. When average people will figure this out instead of mewling in line for the latest public safety/super-duper-consumer convenience fad, then perhaps we will have a truly safe society where the line in the sand over privacy will be clearly drawn.
Additionally, I remember one poster endorsing the idea that a ID system that eliminated privacy would be the great equalizer. You, my son, are no more brilliant than the doorstop my cat knaws on nightly. There will always be those outside of the system, and anyone outside of the system and not subject to its laws, can dominate/play said system ot their sole advantage. Start using your brain, and quit thinking like a socialist. Any communal equalization system will end in failure. It always does, always will. I'm not sure what the blissful fascination with socialism is.... yeah, it looks good on paper, just like a dot com, but it sucks in real life.
I am now wearing a fire suit, and the halon is near. Bring it on!
Good-day to you,
TurboD
First off, since Dolby has offered to talk licensing, the authors of the code should. I expect Dolby would be conducive to talks, especially given the tone of the letter.
Secondly, is that Dolby makes cash from the Dolby Double D symbol on receivers and DVD players. They invest alot of money into continually refining their audio perceptual model. If BSD code is allowed to take the Dolby emblem, without some sort of revision of the licensing, then someone else can take the BSD code and incorporate it into a receiver, and place the Dolby symbol on their receiver without paying a dime to Dolby. This is Dolby's concern, of that I am sure. I expect Dolby would like to work out some deal where the code can only carry the Dolby compatible symbol/phrase/various trademarks/etc. if the code is not used in a embedded audio application (such as consumer equipment). They make money on the encoders, of course, but not nearly as much as the few 100,000 Dolby surround receivers sold here in the US and elsewhere every year.
Finally, I am glad that Dolby makes a tax on these components -- their perceptual models get better and better. Sure, its not audiophile grade, but it blows every other codec in existance out of the water (WM, MP3, blah, blag, blah), and it was first introduced years ago. DTS is decent, when I have heard it in theatres, so they are a alternative codec, however, if they weren't bottom rung player in the surround game, they'd be sending cease/desist letter too. If Dolby profits are removed, then the models do not improve, a new standard steps in that is closed completely, and stays on the film reel, and the consumers will be condemned to sucky present day tech forever.
TurboD
Hmmh, earplugs are overhyped by those who do not suffer from chronic swimmers ear. I can't wear earplugs for even one day, or I'll end up with ear infections that swell my ear so severely that I can't even get the plugs in the next day. A coupla days with just the loosest fitting earphones possible, also results in the same issues. Living with them in my ears every night for 5 months -- I'd take planet earth anyday. No trips worth that.
TurboD
It's FAST not QUICK (for a bike), as is to be expected of a turbine powered vehicle.
I think the street legal cycle horsepower record is held by a piston engine design, with turbocharging, putting roughly 475hp to the wheels. It could smoke this turbine in the quarter pretty handily -- if you have the brass to try it.
Also commenting on another post - 11.x seconds in the quarter doesn't sound like a 777hp Viper. There are '37 Coupes (real metal here, folks), that will run the quarter in 10 seconds, and they are powered by inline 6 cylinders with turbos. At least one that is documented can be driven too and from the track...
And if you really want to see the dotted line turn into a solid one real quick -- get yourself a Dutwieller Buick 3.8L Turbo. Much more comfortable than a crotch rocket and you could dust this whiner handily.
However, pulling your superbike up to the diesel pump is priceless.
TurboD
Ummh, that was not the answer to his question.
I heard somewhere that if we planted the entire surface of the North American continent with corn/hemp/etc. and harvested it, it wouldn't amount to much in the fuel tanks of America's economic engine. For now, the black stuff is the best stuff. Its very hard to beat the energy density and resource extraction efficiency of oil.
TurboD
My take on onboard power generation would be a small thermo-electric generator on the muffler of the motor, if you couldn't find a handy camcorder battery, that is. Thermo-electric would be quite happy in this application. It would look much similar to the mini-mufflers found on model aircraft engines. This could keep a small set of startac batteries topped off for occasional telemetry reporting and route checking.
For normal flight control, I'd use pendelum controls to keep the flight stable. Maybe a inertial switch to detect overly violent maneuvers that would wake the control module to apply course correction or such. Otherwise, keep the control module in hibernation, and have it wake at preset times to check its current position and feed in any course corrections.
TurboD
I find it even more hilarious that some folks can decend so deep into their own athiestic egos, like you, and lump biblical faith as a characteristic of a demographic of people you'd rather ignore, as if they are unavoidably linked. If these people were the trully faithful, then you wouldn't hear about so many "trailer trash ordeals". Additionally, not every human being who lives in a manufactured home on this planet is "trailer-trash".
Not every hardworking, honest person on the planet can afford a real house. As a matter of fact, I am here-by establishing a new stereotype along the lines of your reasoning - "athiestic apartment trash". You know, mixin' it up 90210 style all the time, having drunkin' parties, and swingin'. If anything, more city dwellers fall in line with the image city dwellers would like to relegate to ALL trailer dwellers.
Why did I bother posting? You are obviously ignorant and needed enlightenment.
TurboD
Its a virtual sound driver, can even speed up the dump process by signalling much faster than real life sound cards.
I don't work for these guys but I bought it several years ago, and grab the upgrades (I get for lifetime), and it ROCKS. Very nifty for grabbing newsbites, etc., from webcasts.
TurboD
Ahem!
High Criteria - Total Recorder
TurboD
This only tells me that JLG was not shrewd enough in his dealings with Apple. If the threat of a lawsuit leads a OS company to drop support for an entire line of computers, and relegate itself to being a worthless OS (BeIA - that's funny! as my Baby Furby would say), then I wouldn't want that OS in the first place. Secondly, I don't understand the following BeOS has in the first place. I installed it -- then promptly uninstalled it. It was completely backwards and only had frame buffer support on a ubiquitous and generic accelerator chip (NeoMagic). That chip had been out a year (everything is that IBM puts in their thinkpads, so they can get refined drivers). It also didn't support a 3com ethernet adapter (3c579), and didn't support a ESS Solo 1 audio adapter. In final, all this hardware had open specs and drivers in Linux at the time, but were not supported in BeOS. I call that *completely useless*. I also call BeIA a running joke so that JLG can keep his burned-out operation in VC funds. I pity the VCs who are going to end up burning in a financial hell over his pooh OS.
TurboD
I don't know about UCITA, but I have read the reactionary comments here on slashdot, and it appears that there will be more stringent controls on software quality and licensing at the developer and user ends. To this effect, why can GPL not route around this? If GPL is a globally acknowledged license, then GPL software should be able to just say somewhere inside it that it is above the laws of all nations states, or whatever.
David