Dang. Buy a PlayStation 3 for $100 more, and get a full entertainment system with wireless. Make that the same price. The 40GB PS3 is $400 and comes with Spiderman 3 on BluRay.
I really do wish that Sony had gone ahead and stuck a regular IR port in it. If you have a less-than-optimal physical setup, the Bluetooth is a godsend. My stack of an amp, DirecTiVo, old DVD player (now just used as a CD changer) and PS3 is halfway behind the TV, so not having to aim the remote just right (usually reflecting off the front door) to get the IR to work is as much of an improvement as the better picture. Fortunately, the TiVo remote has always been more forgiving than any DVD player we've ever had.
Most of the responses are well beyond the actual abilities of just the president, but what the hell, that's more fun.
1. Make judicial review explicit in the constitution, and give the judicial branch the right to strike down laws simply for being stupid. 2. Single tax filing: States and cities just tell the feds their rates for a small selection of tax types. 3. Single-payer health care: Businesses should not have to worry about health care for their employees; it's the government's responsibility. I'm still not sure if this is a right or left-wing position. 4. Eliminate seniority pay for teachers, at least secondary. After the first year, young teachers are usually better than older ones. 5. Government should pay student loans for teachers for the standard ten year period (yes, this means teachers are paid less after that time). 6. Retroactive consent for statutory rape. Once the victim reaches the age of consent, he or she has the option to pardon the offender. 7. No one may be convicted of a crime they could not reasonably have been expected to know was illegal. 8. Instant runoff voting.
The recipe I have that makes an icecream that makes friends claim it's better than even the best you can buy has a few ounces of Amaretto in it. Are you willing to share the recipe, or should I just run with my Amaretto-goes-with-cherry instincts and toss it into the black cherry ice cream I've made before? (basically the Good Eats premium vanilla recipe with a jar of black cherry All Fruit instead of the sugar)
Like it or not, being able to spell is a significant indication of character, especially the propensity for paying attention to detail I have pretty good instincts for grammar and spelling, but that's just an indication that I grew up reading a lot. That may be indicative of a person you want, or it may just be indicative of someone whose father always took over the TV to watch something boring (football, TV news, etc.).
In fact, I believe (but could be wrong) that our state government even passed a law forcing us to move the primaries forward, if necessary, to protect that status. Yes, that's right. New Hampshire law says your primary must be at least a week before any other. Iowa law says their caucus must be before any other election activity of any sort.
I always thought it would be neat for another state (say Michigan, since we're playing with our times, anyway) to just pass a law that says their primary will be the same day as New Hampshire's, whatever that is.
A BushClinton has been either Prez or VP for 28 years! And regardless of outcome, this is only the second election since 1976 that George Bush has not been running. Of course, it's early yet; someone could still pick George Prescott Bush (Jeb's son) as a running mate.
Lisp has been an influence on other languages for almost 60 years now. Having some idea of how it works is a good thing, even if it's restricted to a month during Comparative Programming Languages.
they would actually have had to scrap it 3-4 years into development, learn the lesson that they are subjects to laws of nature (or mathematic) as well and start over. They obviouly were not smart or gutsy enough for that. I think they *did* do that. I seem to recall reading in 2004 or 2005 that, after they gave up on WinFS, they restarted Longhorn development starting with the Windows Server 2003 codebase. There certainly doesn't seem to be enough new in Vista to suggest development all the way back to WinXP's release.
Supposedly the VHS/Betamax war was decided by the adult video houses rather than the "big" publishers... which way are they going? As usual, the porn folks are going both ways.
At some point, it's going to stop making sense to make the monitors bigger and bigger. If you're going to do something exotic and expensive like this, why not glasses?
The difference is we don't trust them to run the government, so we separated the power into two branches -- the President runs the government, the Congress sets laws and budgets. That seems to be the position of the Republican Party, yes. However, we are supposed to have a judicial branch that is comparable to the other two.
Why not just simulate that digitally, a lot more easily? I'm surprised no-one's sold a CD player that does this. Oh wait, no I'm not, because the "warm analog" sound is actually just a worse sound. Different kind of amp. You're talking about the amps people use to listen to recorded music. The grandparent was talking about amps musicians use. For guitar, most players do use analog tube equipment, although digital simulation of those sounds is indeed getting a lot more popular.
When I'm playing guitar, I prefer the sound of a solid state amp (tubes tend to smooth everything out, and I'd rather be careful to play smoothly in the first place), but there are plenty of players that I like where part of what I like is what they do with a tube amp.
Trust me, Mom and Dad bought that PS3 for Timmy to play games, not to watch Blu Ray DVDs. *sigh* Well, no. Buying them for games is probably more common than buying them for movies, but if you decide you want a Blu-Ray player, it doesn't really make sense to buy a stand-alone unit when the 40GB PS3 is in the same price range.
I bought mine to watch movies, and got a game for my son as an afterthought.
The quality difference is nil from five feet away on virtually any size screen. I can see a huge difference on my 32" TV, but that's with my glasses on and the lights off.
nice long 120 character screen Then you're stuck printing in landscape, though. I always set the little marker bar around 94-97 characters to let me print nicely in portrait. Monitors are just about getting big enough, though, that we should think about two-column displays for programming.
I was going to get a 24" for a while, but i still haven't and now this. 1080p TVs make perfectly serviceable monitors, so you can get a lot bigger than that.
I'd like to see some strategy games (turn-based would be fine, but real-time is probably more likely) come out for the PS3 that *do* use a keyboard and a mouse. I synced a BlueTooth keyboard and mouse to my PS3 just because I had them handy, but there doesn't seem to be much to do with them.
"Digital" has become the new "MHz" - people don't seem to understand that analogue is not inherently worse (except in the case of making copies from copies from copies...) Analog *is* inherently worse when you stick it in the middle of an otherwise digital path.
LCDs are fundamentally digital devices, so using VGA is forcing a digital-to-analog conversion at your video card and then a analog-to-digital conversion in the monitor.
Likewise, my DirecTivo is always going to look better with smaller filesizes than the old (pre-cablecard) standalone TiVos, because it can just directly save the digital data. A stand-alone unit with a DirecTV box would have the DirecTV box converting to analog and then the TiVo converting back to digital because that's what it can save.
That page you linked is about HDMI, which is intended for digital signals. The grandparent was talking about analog signals which are much more affected by line noise.
The most specious argument along these lines is the one that if we didn't drop cases where the police really screw up, they'd have no incentive to not break the rules to get evidence. Excuse me? Anyone who believes that stupid line hasn't been paying attention... It really looks like you intended to give a counter-argument here, but then you didn't. Did you get sidetracked somehow?
nor do they give two shits about the victim's right to justice. So what if another party screwed up? The fact is, the person still committed a crime against a private citizen. Perhaps (a big perhaps -- there could have been tampering with evidence, not just illegal searches and the like), but you still need to supply an alternate way to prevent that sort of abuse by the police.
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Dang. Buy a PlayStation 3 for $100 more, and get a full entertainment system with wireless.
Make that the same price. The 40GB PS3 is $400 and comes with Spiderman 3 on BluRay.
I really do wish that Sony had gone ahead and stuck a regular IR port in it.
If you have a less-than-optimal physical setup, the Bluetooth is a godsend. My stack of an amp, DirecTiVo, old DVD player (now just used as a CD changer) and PS3 is halfway behind the TV, so not having to aim the remote just right (usually reflecting off the front door) to get the IR to work is as much of an improvement as the better picture. Fortunately, the TiVo remote has always been more forgiving than any DVD player we've ever had.
Most of the responses are well beyond the actual abilities of just the president, but what the hell, that's more fun.
1. Make judicial review explicit in the constitution, and give the judicial branch the right to strike down laws simply for being stupid.
2. Single tax filing: States and cities just tell the feds their rates for a small selection of tax types.
3. Single-payer health care: Businesses should not have to worry about health care for their employees; it's the government's responsibility. I'm still not sure if this is a right or left-wing position.
4. Eliminate seniority pay for teachers, at least secondary. After the first year, young teachers are usually better than older ones.
5. Government should pay student loans for teachers for the standard ten year period (yes, this means teachers are paid less after that time).
6. Retroactive consent for statutory rape. Once the victim reaches the age of consent, he or she has the option to pardon the offender.
7. No one may be convicted of a crime they could not reasonably have been expected to know was illegal.
8. Instant runoff voting.
The recipe I have that makes an icecream that makes friends claim it's better than even the best you can buy has a few ounces of Amaretto in it.
Are you willing to share the recipe, or should I just run with my Amaretto-goes-with-cherry instincts and toss it into the black cherry ice cream I've made before? (basically the Good Eats premium vanilla recipe with a jar of black cherry All Fruit instead of the sugar)
Like it or not, being able to spell is a significant indication of character, especially the propensity for paying attention to detail
I have pretty good instincts for grammar and spelling, but that's just an indication that I grew up reading a lot. That may be indicative of a person you want, or it may just be indicative of someone whose father always took over the TV to watch something boring (football, TV news, etc.).
In fact, I believe (but could be wrong) that our state government even passed a law forcing us to move the primaries forward, if necessary, to protect that status.
Yes, that's right. New Hampshire law says your primary must be at least a week before any other. Iowa law says their caucus must be before any other election activity of any sort.
I always thought it would be neat for another state (say Michigan, since we're playing with our times, anyway) to just pass a law that says their primary will be the same day as New Hampshire's, whatever that is.
A BushClinton has been either Prez or VP for 28 years!
And regardless of outcome, this is only the second election since 1976 that George Bush has not been running. Of course, it's early yet; someone could still pick George Prescott Bush (Jeb's son) as a running mate.
Lisp has been an influence on other languages for almost 60 years now. Having some idea of how it works is a good thing, even if it's restricted to a month during Comparative Programming Languages.
now that Billy is gone...will it be replaced by a borgified version of Ballmer?
More likely a flying chair.
they would actually have had to scrap it 3-4 years into development, learn the lesson that they are subjects to laws of nature (or mathematic) as well and start over. They obviouly were not smart or gutsy enough for that.
I think they *did* do that. I seem to recall reading in 2004 or 2005 that, after they gave up on WinFS, they restarted Longhorn development starting with the Windows Server 2003 codebase. There certainly doesn't seem to be enough new in Vista to suggest development all the way back to WinXP's release.
Supposedly the VHS/Betamax war was decided by the adult video houses rather than the "big" publishers... which way are they going?
As usual, the porn folks are going both ways.
They also didn't comment on whether their contract really would let them out.
At some point, it's going to stop making sense to make the monitors bigger and bigger. If you're going to do something exotic and expensive like this, why not glasses?
The difference is we don't trust them to run the government, so we separated the power into two branches -- the President runs the government, the Congress sets laws and budgets.
That seems to be the position of the Republican Party, yes. However, we are supposed to have a judicial branch that is comparable to the other two.
Why not just simulate that digitally, a lot more easily? I'm surprised no-one's sold a CD player that does this. Oh wait, no I'm not, because the "warm analog" sound is actually just a worse sound.
Different kind of amp. You're talking about the amps people use to listen to recorded music. The grandparent was talking about amps musicians use. For guitar, most players do use analog tube equipment, although digital simulation of those sounds is indeed getting a lot more popular.
When I'm playing guitar, I prefer the sound of a solid state amp (tubes tend to smooth everything out, and I'd rather be careful to play smoothly in the first place), but there are plenty of players that I like where part of what I like is what they do with a tube amp.
Trust me, Mom and Dad bought that PS3 for Timmy to play games, not to watch Blu Ray DVDs. *sigh*
Well, no. Buying them for games is probably more common than buying them for movies, but if you decide you want a Blu-Ray player, it doesn't really make sense to buy a stand-alone unit when the 40GB PS3 is in the same price range.
I bought mine to watch movies, and got a game for my son as an afterthought.
The quality difference is nil from five feet away on virtually any size screen.
I can see a huge difference on my 32" TV, but that's with my glasses on and the lights off.
Do those three show the same source file?
nice long 120 character screen
Then you're stuck printing in landscape, though. I always set the little marker bar around 94-97 characters to let me print nicely in portrait. Monitors are just about getting big enough, though, that we should think about two-column displays for programming.
My TV is a 32" 1080p TV, and NewEgg has 24" and 28" monitors that look to really be TVs.
I was going to get a 24" for a while, but i still haven't and now this.
1080p TVs make perfectly serviceable monitors, so you can get a lot bigger than that.
I'd like to see some strategy games (turn-based would be fine, but real-time is probably more likely) come out for the PS3 that *do* use a keyboard and a mouse. I synced a BlueTooth keyboard and mouse to my PS3 just because I had them handy, but there doesn't seem to be much to do with them.
"Digital" has become the new "MHz" - people don't seem to understand that analogue is not inherently worse (except in the case of making copies from copies from copies...)
Analog *is* inherently worse when you stick it in the middle of an otherwise digital path.
LCDs are fundamentally digital devices, so using VGA is forcing a digital-to-analog conversion at your video card and then a analog-to-digital conversion in the monitor.
Likewise, my DirecTivo is always going to look better with smaller filesizes than the old (pre-cablecard) standalone TiVos, because it can just directly save the digital data. A stand-alone unit with a DirecTV box would have the DirecTV box converting to analog and then the TiVo converting back to digital because that's what it can save.
That page you linked is about HDMI, which is intended for digital signals. The grandparent was talking about analog signals which are much more affected by line noise.
The most specious argument along these lines is the one that if we didn't drop cases where the police really screw up, they'd have no incentive to not break the rules to get evidence. Excuse me? Anyone who believes that stupid line hasn't been paying attention...
It really looks like you intended to give a counter-argument here, but then you didn't. Did you get sidetracked somehow?
nor do they give two shits about the victim's right to justice. So what if another party screwed up? The fact is, the person still committed a crime against a private citizen.
Perhaps (a big perhaps -- there could have been tampering with evidence, not just illegal searches and the like), but you still need to supply an alternate way to prevent that sort of abuse by the police.
Which newspaper does Rove own?
Back in 2003? All of them.