This is why police are supposed to get a warrant FIRST, so that someone who actually knows the law (i.e. a judge) and is impartial can determine that images of a naked body are Not illegal.
I'm sick and tired of police acting without first talking to a judge. I'm sick and tired of police not following legal procedure, and just willy-nilly doing whatever they feel like doing.
Kinda like the "yellow journalism" of the 1980s-era newspapers. Why you think traditional print media is any better than electronic media makes no sense to me. Newspaper reporters have a lot in common with bloggers.
Oh, and I guess next you'll tell us "Thomas Edison was not a real engineer" just because he never held a college degree. There's more to people than whether or not they hold a piece of sheepskin..... there's talent. An amateur blogger can be just as good a journalist as someone who holds a Ph.D. in journalism. Perhaps even better.
No but you'll be able to HEAR the errors - just as I can hear when my DTV signal is about to disappear due to interference/noise. In any case you don't need a $500 cable. A $5 cable will work just fine to preserve the "HI" and "LO" states which digital uses.
So now we have a solution where buyers can blackmail sellers with comments like, "Give me free shipping or I'll leave a negative on your account," and of course ebay won't do anything to stop the buyers from this blackmail.
>>>Buyers have few recourses if scammed by a bad seller.
Bullshit. I'm a buyer and I have LOTS of recourse for protecting myself: - threaten to neg seller if he does not do the right thing (not very effective) - file paypal complaint (you almost always win) - file credit card chargeback (you win 100%) - court lawsuit
The real problem is: Who protects the sellers? I had a buyer return an EMPTY envelope to me, and then she filed a credit chargeback to reverse $80 out of my account while she kept the PSP handheld. There was nothing I could do to stop this scam, or any future scams. It's the buyers who are best-protected, and the sellers who are most vulnerable.
Ebay is quite good at connecting accounts, and typically the will block a whole string accounts based upon shared IP addresses. So somebody thinking they could setup an account "scriptbot2" while leaving their other "smithfamily" account clean will likely find both accounts linked together as one customer & then blocked.
And of course with Ebay's "brilliant" idea to not let sellers give buyers negative feedback, there's no way for us to warn other sellers about these deadbeat non-paying bidders. Yippee.
You read my mind. I have a few items left-over from last Christmas that didn't sell even when marked down to 0.01 so maybe they'll sell now this year to one of these script-kiddies.
DRAWBACK: A lot of these script-kiddies are probably deadbeat non-payers as well. Surely they are not going to buy 10,000 items that they won last week for a dollar each. Instead they'll just refuse to pay and leave sellers to eat the losses in Ebay fees.
>>>In Japan, a law prohibiting child prostitution and child porn was put into effect in 1999. >>>However, the law stipulates no punitive measures for simple possession of child porn.
That's how it should be. It's not the photo that is the crime, but the sexual act with a minor - which is not necessarily a child. A young adult can also me a minor, so the proper phrase should be "minor prostitution" or "underage prostitution".
Well the Italians (Romans) had been kicking ass for 1000 years prior, so I guess the neighbors finally got fed-up and decided to strike back (and also reclaim some of the wealth the Romans had looted). Turn-about is fair play.
>>>The traditional image you have of Italians is mainly the one of the south, made popular by the emigration and movies. The productive North is seldom known, and the administrative Center, with Rome, is in the news for political reasons. >>>
This paragraph could just as easily described the United States (the south, the productive north, and the administrative center around Washington). Most countries don't have one culture, but multiple intermingling cultures.
>>>One would think that the Xbox 360 port should come right over...
That would be true if we were talking about an Xbox, which was a Celeron-based PC minus the keyboard, but not so with the X360 which has dedicated CPUs (multicore) and GPUs specifically assigned for the task of gaming. Therefore porting anything from the X360 to a general-purpose computer requires a major rewrite.
I've only ever used a QuadCore PC once in my life:
- Core 1 was 100% utilized. - Core 2 was only 25%. - Cores 3 and 4 were sitting idle doing nothing.
It was clocked at 2000 megahertz and based upon what I observed, it doesn't look like I'm "hurting" myself by sticking with my "singlecore" 3100 megahertz Pentium. The multicores don't seem to be used very well by Windows, and my singlecore Pentium might actually be faster for my main purpose (web browsing/watching tv shows).
>>>If you install it backwards, as one of my cow-orkers did, you'll severely limit your connection speeds
Wow. I flipped my telephone line around this morning, and my modem speed increased from 14k to 53k! I've had my line backwards for the last twenty years. I feel so dumb. Maybe if I hadn't wasted my youth orking cows I'd have noticed this flaw earlier.
Your description reminds me of my old Windows 98 Compaq Presario laptop. Absolutely terrible display, because it's impossible to see the entire image at once... even just 1 degree off perpendicular and the image fades. As a result I can see either the top half or the bottom half of the screen, but not all at the same time. Junk.
IMHO they should forget LCDs and use Plasma displays instead. Almost as bright and colorful as a CRT (big and bulky but still the best display ever made; plus it can handle multiple resolutions).
"WE know the truth. WE have the answer. While 'they' wander in darkness, WE have found the light! Can I get an Amen brothers?" "Amen!" "We don't have to worry about viruses. We don't have to worry about drivers. We have the crispest displays in the industry. We have the best-built computers in the world. Am I right brothers?" "Yes sir!" "Praise be to Apple!" "And the Macintosh!"
Actually this kinda reminds me circa 1990 with my Commodore Amiga. Fortunately I went off to college and now I'm a bleeding-heart liberal just like all the other students. The answer lies not in cold steel and plastic, but in the ever-loving arms of Brother Government. Mmmm-hmmm.
Having a high-quality cable made sense in the days of Analog audio, because a poor-quality cable could distort the sound, but in this new era of Digital audio (1's and 0's) there's no longer any need. "The AK-DL1 will bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction" is just nonsense. The nuances come from the computer DAC chip's ability to turn 1's and 0's into sound, and that's where audiophiles should spend their money, not on a $500 gold-plated cable.
P.S. Your idea of putting memory on the CPU is certainly workable. The very first CPU to integrate memory was the 80486 (8 kilobyte cache), so the idea has been proven sound since at least 1990.
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This is why police are supposed to get a warrant FIRST, so that someone who actually knows the law (i.e. a judge) and is impartial can determine that images of a naked body are Not illegal.
I'm sick and tired of police acting without first talking to a judge. I'm sick and tired of police not following legal procedure, and just willy-nilly doing whatever they feel like doing.
Kinda like the "yellow journalism" of the 1980s-era newspapers. Why you think traditional print media is any better than electronic media makes no sense to me. Newspaper reporters have a lot in common with bloggers.
Oh, and I guess next you'll tell us "Thomas Edison was not a real engineer" just because he never held a college degree. There's more to people than whether or not they hold a piece of sheepskin..... there's talent. An amateur blogger can be just as good a journalist as someone who holds a Ph.D. in journalism. Perhaps even better.
I would have called the manager right then and there. There's no call for salespeople to treat customers like shit.
No but you'll be able to HEAR the errors - just as I can hear when my DTV signal is about to disappear due to interference/noise. In any case you don't need a $500 cable. A $5 cable will work just fine to preserve the "HI" and "LO" states which digital uses.
So now we have a solution where buyers can blackmail sellers with comments like, "Give me free shipping or I'll leave a negative on your account," and of course ebay won't do anything to stop the buyers from this blackmail.
>>>Buyers have few recourses if scammed by a bad seller.
Bullshit. I'm a buyer and I have LOTS of recourse for protecting myself:
- threaten to neg seller if he does not do the right thing (not very effective)
- file paypal complaint (you almost always win)
- file credit card chargeback (you win 100%)
- court lawsuit
The real problem is: Who protects the sellers? I had a buyer return an EMPTY envelope to me, and then she filed a credit chargeback to reverse $80 out of my account while she kept the PSP handheld. There was nothing I could do to stop this scam, or any future scams. It's the buyers who are best-protected, and the sellers who are most vulnerable.
You are correct. The Motorola 68020 had 1/4 kilobyte of memory onboard, and was also a true 32-bit processor in 1984.
I should have known. Motorola CPUs were always more-advanced than Intel. Of course I'm biased since I always preferred Amigas and Macs. ;-)
I'm not sure that would work.
Ebay is quite good at connecting accounts, and typically the will block a whole string accounts based upon shared IP addresses. So somebody thinking they could setup an account "scriptbot2" while leaving their other "smithfamily" account clean will likely find both accounts linked together as one customer & then blocked.
P.S.
And of course with Ebay's "brilliant" idea to not let sellers give buyers negative feedback, there's no way for us to warn other sellers about these deadbeat non-paying bidders. Yippee.
You read my mind. I have a few items left-over from last Christmas that didn't sell even when marked down to 0.01 so maybe they'll sell now this year to one of these script-kiddies.
DRAWBACK: A lot of these script-kiddies are probably deadbeat non-payers as well. Surely they are not going to buy 10,000 items that they won last week for a dollar each. Instead they'll just refuse to pay and leave sellers to eat the losses in Ebay fees.
>>>In Japan, a law prohibiting child prostitution and child porn was put into effect in 1999.
>>>However, the law stipulates no punitive measures for simple possession of child porn.
That's how it should be. It's not the photo that is the crime, but the sexual act with a minor - which is not necessarily a child. A young adult can also me a minor, so the proper phrase should be "minor prostitution" or "underage prostitution".
Well the Italians (Romans) had been kicking ass for 1000 years prior, so I guess the neighbors finally got fed-up and decided to strike back (and also reclaim some of the wealth the Romans had looted). Turn-about is fair play.
>>>The traditional image you have of Italians is mainly the one of the south, made popular by the emigration and movies. The productive North is seldom known, and the administrative Center, with Rome, is in the news for political reasons.
>>>
This paragraph could just as easily described the United States (the south, the productive north, and the administrative center around Washington). Most countries don't have one culture, but multiple intermingling cultures.
>>>One would think that the Xbox 360 port should come right over...
That would be true if we were talking about an Xbox, which was a Celeron-based PC minus the keyboard, but not so with the X360 which has dedicated CPUs (multicore) and GPUs specifically assigned for the task of gaming. Therefore porting anything from the X360 to a general-purpose computer requires a major rewrite.
By your narrow definition, Benjamin Franklin and his printing press was "merely blogging" not journalism.
Of course that distinction is nonsense. Anyone who publishes is a journalist, whether he's using a printing press or a website.
I've only ever used a QuadCore PC once in my life:
- Core 1 was 100% utilized.
- Core 2 was only 25%.
- Cores 3 and 4 were sitting idle doing nothing.
It was clocked at 2000 megahertz and based upon what I observed, it doesn't look like I'm "hurting" myself by sticking with my "singlecore" 3100 megahertz Pentium. The multicores don't seem to be used very well by Windows, and my singlecore Pentium might actually be faster for my main purpose (web browsing/watching tv shows).
>>>Don't force it in, be very gentle the first time. It needs to loosen up a little before you start inserting aggressively
Thanks you.
This is the sort of thing they don't teach in sex ed.
>>>If you install it backwards, as one of my cow-orkers did, you'll severely limit your connection speeds
Wow. I flipped my telephone line around this morning, and my modem speed increased from 14k to 53k! I've had my line backwards for the last twenty years. I feel so dumb. Maybe if I hadn't wasted my youth orking cows I'd have noticed this flaw earlier.
>>>Thank you, Captain Obvious, for that enlightening post.
That's alright. Captain Obvious trumps Seaman Asshole.
I suspect the 20-something women of the world would disagree. Nobody wants an old machine when they can get some young stud with no grays.
Your description reminds me of my old Windows 98 Compaq Presario laptop. Absolutely terrible display, because it's impossible to see the entire image at once... even just 1 degree off perpendicular and the image fades. As a result I can see either the top half or the bottom half of the screen, but not all at the same time. Junk.
IMHO they should forget LCDs and use Plasma displays instead. Almost as bright and colorful as a CRT (big and bulky but still the best display ever made; plus it can handle multiple resolutions).
...enjoy some solo sex?
Actually it's more like a church revival meeting.
"WE know the truth. WE have the answer. While 'they' wander in darkness, WE have found the light! Can I get an Amen brothers?" "Amen!"
"We don't have to worry about viruses. We don't have to worry about drivers. We have the crispest displays in the industry. We have the best-built computers in the world. Am I right brothers?"
"Yes sir!"
"Praise be to Apple!"
"And the Macintosh!"
Actually this kinda reminds me circa 1990 with my Commodore Amiga. Fortunately I went off to college and now I'm a bleeding-heart liberal just like all the other students. The answer lies not in cold steel and plastic, but in the ever-loving arms of Brother Government. Mmmm-hmmm.
Having a high-quality cable made sense in the days of Analog audio, because a poor-quality cable could distort the sound, but in this new era of Digital audio (1's and 0's) there's no longer any need. "The AK-DL1 will bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction" is just nonsense. The nuances come from the computer DAC chip's ability to turn 1's and 0's into sound, and that's where audiophiles should spend their money, not on a $500 gold-plated cable.
Fools and their money are easily parted.
P.S. Your idea of putting memory on the CPU is certainly workable. The very first CPU to integrate memory was the 80486 (8 kilobyte cache), so the idea has been proven sound since at least 1990.
>>>Ever seen a 1 MHz. system with a GB. RAM?
Yes. Both a Commodore 64 and Commodore 128, although the 1 gigabyte RAM is typically used as a fast drive rather than as CPU-addressable DRAM.