It's as if the upgrade process wasn't a massive clusterfuck, it wouldn't seem like much is changing to those who don't explore the OS much. I remember many painless Mac upgrades back in OS 8.x where I didn't find cool new features for months after upgrade because they weren't put into my work path. Even though the features did come in handy, I'll take painless thanks!
It's like how most big grocery chains move their stock around arbitrarily to get people to look for things they want, only to find stuff they don't want. I can't stand that, and have left many a half-full cart sitting in an aisle because three things I need were moved. Let's see the staff remember where the stuff goes back...
Actually, AT&T might not have much to gain by having another carrier poach their clients when roaming. Back in the mid 90's I would get US bouncers catching my calls when traveling near the US/Canada border, and I'd get nailed with a 99 cents/minute bill even though I never crossed the border. I would complain and they would all be reversed, but I don't think my carrier would make a penny off of it. Surely a $28,000 bill is being padded however, but I wonder how big was the bill that was sent to AT&T from the Cruise ship's provider? Maybe that was the $290? Quite the mark-up!
I suspect AT&T just doesn't want other carriers advertising to their clients, or their clients calling in wondering if AT&T sold their contract or some other lunacy. As such, I don't see how AT&T can claim roaming charges unless the client is well outside their service area. They can't prove that the client was aware of the higher rate. The same applied to me, when Bell installed a "service dock" on the side of my house, whose purpose was to let the client test to see if a problem is inside or outside their home, saving Bell from sending out repair techs unnecessarily. The problem was that anyone with a screwdriver could open the dock, plug in a phone, and call anywhere on my account. I discovered this after receiving a bill for $400+ in 1-900 calls placed when I was at work, and yes I had requested that all such phone numbers be blocked like I had the previous 10 years. Luckily I had proof that it had been tampered, since I painted over it shortly after installation. However Bell installed the box without asking me, did not inform me of the vulnerability, and even though they reversed the charges acknowledging that they could not prove who placed any chargeable calls, they refused to send a tech out to remove it at my request. Naturally, I switched to VOIP immediately.
It's just high-tech paparazzi of mostly very uninteresting terrain. If Princess Di can die from that exact same sort of shit to a ridiculously higher degree without any indictments handed out, what does Google have to fear from a few hicks?
Actually, there are three ways a property owner can keep trespassers out:
1: verbal or written warning - "stay off my lawn you pesky kids!"
2: a physical barrier, i.e. fence or gate
3: a sign, i.e. "no trespassing"
Unfortunately a sign reading "private road" can be interpreted many ways, for example "use at own risk". The "private road" signs are of little legal use, people think they're a nice way of saying "stay out", but for anyone wishing to exploit the situation all they really mean is "cops won't bust you for what you do here unless I call in and somehow keep you here while a patrol car probably won't even bother coming out, and I have to maintain the road myself."
You want to know what was really retarded? Protools is professional audio software with very tough anti-piracy protection, to the extent that it interferes with performance if you do not set up a dedicated boot partition with specific configurations. In all 5.x versions the EULA was presented in editable format. For every install I just hit select-all and delete, "I agree".
You've got it backwards. Cheney didn't make the difference in whether Halliburton got the no-bid contracts or not, he created the contracts by starting the wars. More war == more contracts for Halliburton. Quite the conflict of interest for a vice-president.
There is nothing religious about the "Earth exceptionalism" theory of having a close orbiting moon roughly half the mass of the planet. I just finished writing another post in this thread explaining it.
'I simply say if you have a habitable world.... Sitting there, with the right temperature with water for a billion years, something is going to come out of it. At least we will have microbes,' said Boss.
Water is definitely a necessary component to our form of life, however a stagnant pool of water won't produce even microbes in any prompt fashion on a cosmic scale. The moon is as big a contributor to life on Earth as its water, because of how the tide has stirred the water like no other planet we've discovered yet.
This video gives you an idea of how complex molecules like DNA could form over billions of years when such a large water mass is stirred so frequently and consistently. The principle is called cymatics. Google that term, and you'll find some really insightful information, as well as a lot of lofty hipster theories.
One thing's for certain, the ancient Egyptians were all over it. They surely pondered sand dune formations for eons.
The NYC metro area is about 100mi in diameter. Guess what's just outside it's urban sprawl? Farms. Not to mention it's one of the busiest ports in the world. It's still not enough.
However, greenhouse-like hydroponic facilities along the south-facing escarpments of the nearby Poconos along with a rail system for transportation would definitely help.
the major down side I see to farming in the city is the toxins the plants will absorb from the air making it into the food supply.
The amount of pesticides used in major farms is as bad or worse than the air pollution vegetables would absorb. It is easier to control pests without pesticides in a controlled environment, so chances are there would be less toxins in city grown foods.
Besides, your digestive system can handle toxins far better than your respiratory system. Worry more about breathing them, not eating them.
You know, since the editors never do any actual editing, maybe it's time to call them something else.
Last I checked, they were called trolls. Anyone that can't edit a post where "applicable" has been wrongly written as "liable" also falls into that category, especially when they offer nothing to the argument.
Fortunately I can (hopefully) avoid the "pot-kettle-black" retorts by pointing out that this is a prime example of what we can expect of the government-approved YouTube content in election years!
[You will be taken to your video after this short diatribe sponsored by the political party you hate]
Contrary to popular belief, Macs do not have that much higher profit margins than any other PC, only to a point where Apple can afford to develop for its niche market. Macs are a premium package with complete integration of software and hardware. If those two get divided then it is no longer a Mac. Apple goes to great lengths to satisfy a more demanding market, so if it loses control of any major aspect of that process it loses its ability to satisfy that market.
In other words, losing the right to control the hardware would probably be fatal to Apple's PC side, and they might as well change their name to The iPhone Company.
I just can't tell the difference between 128kbps and 256kbps, MP3 from FLAC, 22khz from 44khz.
That's because your ears (meaning the parts of the brain that interpret sound) have not been trained to tell the difference. If you spent a few hours listening to your favorite music at my audio workstation, you would then be able to distinguish between those formats and appreciate the superior ones moreso.
I know that sounds snotty, but is Slashdot really the forum for an "ignorance is bliss" argument?
There is a big difference between monopolizing and becoming a monopoly. By bundling into Windows, Microsoft intended IE to become the monopoly. Mozilla is open source, so it does not have the requisite control to be called a monopoly. Firefox could become a monopoly, but since it was developed by the same legal entity as Mozilla, nobody can claim intent. They have absolutely nothing to worry about.
The success of Firefox over Windows-bundled IE is an epic win for open source. There couldn't be a more visible demonstration of the viability of open source commercial ventures, and no doubt it will spawn a generation of similar projects.
It's bad enough that we've effectively lost the top octave (10kHz and up) to widespread lossy compressed audio, the bottom three octaves (160Hz and down) to widespread use of computer speakers and earbuds, now you're going to introduce random noise?! Speaking from a music production perspective it's already got us badly handcuffed, not to mention every idiot with Garageband thinks they don't need to hire a pro to make their platinum album.
What's really scary is that the auditory capabilities of the entire market can actually degrade from widespread exposure to poor audio, to the point that people literally cannot appreciate good sound. Your ears are not microphones, they are more like keyboards with over 20,000 keys that give the brain information for it to generate the sound you hear. That's right, you are hearing your brain's interpretation of the waves, not the waves themselves.
As the standard of audio quality degrades, so will the brain's ability to appreciate music. There are important subtle cues that are critical to music sounding lifelike instead of synthesized that are already suffering at the hands of lossy compression, if further artifacts are introduced, engineers will probably have to add a more natural noise to the recordings* to mask the artificial noise.
Here is a great article that should shed some light on how music affects the brain. In short, music is most effective by creating and then satisfying anticipation. There's no question random artificial noise severely handicaps that process. I gave up my LP's long ago, I don't want those snaps crackles and pops back!
* We actually already do introduce natural noise to cover artificial noise and have been for decades. It's called bias for analog tape and dithering for digital formats. However, that is a necessary evil for the sake of the recording equipment, and much less significant than the noise random errors would create, even if only to the lower-order data. The noise would have to be constantly as loud as the loudest possible random artifact.
Bits are bits. There's no guarantee that a "low power" chip will only mess up the low-order bits of a number.
But what if the high-order bits were processed on a core with higher power and the lower-order bits were processed by a lower-power core? I don't know if that's possible yet, but that's one way of load-prioritizing.
I never said it did or didn't happen, I'm saying there are more secrets than truth. In this case something is definitely amiss. That 757 did 1/10th the initial damage the twin towers ones did, the wings don't even leave a mark on the building, then 99% of the plane vanished into thin air. How many eye witnesses, circumstantial evidence, and withheld surveillance footage does it take to bend the laws of physics?
The options that come up when you consider what it could have been if not a 757 are pretty horrific. I almost prefer that those truths not come out.
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It's as if the upgrade process wasn't a massive clusterfuck, it wouldn't seem like much is changing to those who don't explore the OS much. I remember many painless Mac upgrades back in OS 8.x where I didn't find cool new features for months after upgrade because they weren't put into my work path. Even though the features did come in handy, I'll take painless thanks!
It's like how most big grocery chains move their stock around arbitrarily to get people to look for things they want, only to find stuff they don't want. I can't stand that, and have left many a half-full cart sitting in an aisle because three things I need were moved. Let's see the staff remember where the stuff goes back...
Actually, AT&T might not have much to gain by having another carrier poach their clients when roaming. Back in the mid 90's I would get US bouncers catching my calls when traveling near the US/Canada border, and I'd get nailed with a 99 cents/minute bill even though I never crossed the border. I would complain and they would all be reversed, but I don't think my carrier would make a penny off of it. Surely a $28,000 bill is being padded however, but I wonder how big was the bill that was sent to AT&T from the Cruise ship's provider? Maybe that was the $290? Quite the mark-up!
I suspect AT&T just doesn't want other carriers advertising to their clients, or their clients calling in wondering if AT&T sold their contract or some other lunacy. As such, I don't see how AT&T can claim roaming charges unless the client is well outside their service area. They can't prove that the client was aware of the higher rate. The same applied to me, when Bell installed a "service dock" on the side of my house, whose purpose was to let the client test to see if a problem is inside or outside their home, saving Bell from sending out repair techs unnecessarily. The problem was that anyone with a screwdriver could open the dock, plug in a phone, and call anywhere on my account. I discovered this after receiving a bill for $400+ in 1-900 calls placed when I was at work, and yes I had requested that all such phone numbers be blocked like I had the previous 10 years. Luckily I had proof that it had been tampered, since I painted over it shortly after installation. However Bell installed the box without asking me, did not inform me of the vulnerability, and even though they reversed the charges acknowledging that they could not prove who placed any chargeable calls, they refused to send a tech out to remove it at my request. Naturally, I switched to VOIP immediately.
It's just high-tech paparazzi of mostly very uninteresting terrain. If Princess Di can die from that exact same sort of shit to a ridiculously higher degree without any indictments handed out, what does Google have to fear from a few hicks?
Actually, there are three ways a property owner can keep trespassers out:
1: verbal or written warning - "stay off my lawn you pesky kids!"
2: a physical barrier, i.e. fence or gate
3: a sign, i.e. "no trespassing"
Unfortunately a sign reading "private road" can be interpreted many ways, for example "use at own risk". The "private road" signs are of little legal use, people think they're a nice way of saying "stay out", but for anyone wishing to exploit the situation all they really mean is "cops won't bust you for what you do here unless I call in and somehow keep you here while a patrol car probably won't even bother coming out, and I have to maintain the road myself."
You want to know what was really retarded? Protools is professional audio software with very tough anti-piracy protection, to the extent that it interferes with performance if you do not set up a dedicated boot partition with specific configurations. In all 5.x versions the EULA was presented in editable format. For every install I just hit select-all and delete, "I agree".
Fail!
You've got it backwards. Cheney didn't make the difference in whether Halliburton got the no-bid contracts or not, he created the contracts by starting the wars. More war == more contracts for Halliburton. Quite the conflict of interest for a vice-president.
There is nothing religious about the "Earth exceptionalism" theory of having a close orbiting moon roughly half the mass of the planet. I just finished writing another post in this thread explaining it.
'I simply say if you have a habitable world. ... Sitting there, with the right temperature with water for a billion years, something is going to come out of it. At least we will have microbes,' said Boss.
Water is definitely a necessary component to our form of life, however a stagnant pool of water won't produce even microbes in any prompt fashion on a cosmic scale. The moon is as big a contributor to life on Earth as its water, because of how the tide has stirred the water like no other planet we've discovered yet.
This video gives you an idea of how complex molecules like DNA could form over billions of years when such a large water mass is stirred so frequently and consistently. The principle is called cymatics. Google that term, and you'll find some really insightful information, as well as a lot of lofty hipster theories.
One thing's for certain, the ancient Egyptians were all over it. They surely pondered sand dune formations for eons.
Man, imagine how rammed the courts are going to be when entire worlds get sued for pirating our copyrighted genomes...
The NYC metro area is about 100mi in diameter. Guess what's just outside it's urban sprawl? Farms. Not to mention it's one of the busiest ports in the world. It's still not enough.
However, greenhouse-like hydroponic facilities along the south-facing escarpments of the nearby Poconos along with a rail system for transportation would definitely help.
the major down side I see to farming in the city is the toxins the plants will absorb from the air making it into the food supply.
The amount of pesticides used in major farms is as bad or worse than the air pollution vegetables would absorb. It is easier to control pests without pesticides in a controlled environment, so chances are there would be less toxins in city grown foods.
Besides, your digestive system can handle toxins far better than your respiratory system. Worry more about breathing them, not eating them.
He also forgot "absolutely useless in the winter when hydroponics can be done year-round in much more conventional buildings"
This means that if they are convicted it may be illegal to have links to questionable content.
Show me internet content that isn't questionable.
"Washington I repeat, we have captured Bin Laden... Washington?!! Fuck it, take the bribe, I'm freezing."
Apparently the last transmission from the Iridium satellite was "What's Russian for 'STARBOARD!!!!'"
You know, since the editors never do any actual editing, maybe it's time to call them something else.
Last I checked, they were called trolls. Anyone that can't edit a post where "applicable" has been wrongly written as "liable" also falls into that category, especially when they offer nothing to the argument.
Fortunately I can (hopefully) avoid the "pot-kettle-black" retorts by pointing out that this is a prime example of what we can expect of the government-approved YouTube content in election years!
[You will be taken to your video after this short diatribe sponsored by the political party you hate]
Contrary to popular belief, Macs do not have that much higher profit margins than any other PC, only to a point where Apple can afford to develop for its niche market. Macs are a premium package with complete integration of software and hardware. If those two get divided then it is no longer a Mac. Apple goes to great lengths to satisfy a more demanding market, so if it loses control of any major aspect of that process it loses its ability to satisfy that market.
In other words, losing the right to control the hardware would probably be fatal to Apple's PC side, and they might as well change their name to The iPhone Company.
I just can't tell the difference between 128kbps and 256kbps, MP3 from FLAC, 22khz from 44khz.
That's because your ears (meaning the parts of the brain that interpret sound) have not been trained to tell the difference. If you spent a few hours listening to your favorite music at my audio workstation, you would then be able to distinguish between those formats and appreciate the superior ones moreso.
I know that sounds snotty, but is Slashdot really the forum for an "ignorance is bliss" argument?
There is a big difference between monopolizing and becoming a monopoly. By bundling into Windows, Microsoft intended IE to become the monopoly. Mozilla is open source, so it does not have the requisite control to be called a monopoly. Firefox could become a monopoly, but since it was developed by the same legal entity as Mozilla, nobody can claim intent. They have absolutely nothing to worry about.
The success of Firefox over Windows-bundled IE is an epic win for open source. There couldn't be a more visible demonstration of the viability of open source commercial ventures, and no doubt it will spawn a generation of similar projects.
It's as though IE5 and XP were "too good" by M$ standards. It's like making good software was a mistake they'll never repeat.
It's bad enough that we've effectively lost the top octave (10kHz and up) to widespread lossy compressed audio, the bottom three octaves (160Hz and down) to widespread use of computer speakers and earbuds, now you're going to introduce random noise?! Speaking from a music production perspective it's already got us badly handcuffed, not to mention every idiot with Garageband thinks they don't need to hire a pro to make their platinum album.
What's really scary is that the auditory capabilities of the entire market can actually degrade from widespread exposure to poor audio, to the point that people literally cannot appreciate good sound. Your ears are not microphones, they are more like keyboards with over 20,000 keys that give the brain information for it to generate the sound you hear. That's right, you are hearing your brain's interpretation of the waves, not the waves themselves.
As the standard of audio quality degrades, so will the brain's ability to appreciate music. There are important subtle cues that are critical to music sounding lifelike instead of synthesized that are already suffering at the hands of lossy compression, if further artifacts are introduced, engineers will probably have to add a more natural noise to the recordings* to mask the artificial noise.
Here is a great article that should shed some light on how music affects the brain. In short, music is most effective by creating and then satisfying anticipation. There's no question random artificial noise severely handicaps that process. I gave up my LP's long ago, I don't want those snaps crackles and pops back!
* We actually already do introduce natural noise to cover artificial noise and have been for decades. It's called bias for analog tape and dithering for digital formats. However, that is a necessary evil for the sake of the recording equipment, and much less significant than the noise random errors would create, even if only to the lower-order data. The noise would have to be constantly as loud as the loudest possible random artifact.
Bits are bits. There's no guarantee that a "low power" chip will only mess up the low-order bits of a number.
But what if the high-order bits were processed on a core with higher power and the lower-order bits were processed by a lower-power core? I don't know if that's possible yet, but that's one way of load-prioritizing.
That's it, you fight, it's better that way...
Why were there no aircraft fuselage fragments at the Pentagon "crash site" on 9/11?
Will people please stop with this one ? It's not like there is no evidence for this.
A link provided by the site you gave makes an equally compelling contrary argument.
I never said it did or didn't happen, I'm saying there are more secrets than truth. In this case something is definitely amiss. That 757 did 1/10th the initial damage the twin towers ones did, the wings don't even leave a mark on the building, then 99% of the plane vanished into thin air. How many eye witnesses, circumstantial evidence, and withheld surveillance footage does it take to bend the laws of physics?
The options that come up when you consider what it could have been if not a 757 are pretty horrific. I almost prefer that those truths not come out.