Ok, terminology difference. I'm referring to the terms of the contract as the rules, which seems reasonable to me. I'd be very suprised if you could find a UK contract that would permit what you are doing, it's a standard exclusion.
My comment that "Not sure what the US rules are." just meant, I wasn't sure if such terms are standard for US-based ISPs.
Hopefully within a generation the absurd notion that animal testing is good will die out. Animals are fixed, and there's not much we can do to improve their ability to model disease in humans. On the other hand, alternative methods are improving massively and have overtaken animal experimentation in many areas.
Animal testing is barbaric and uncivilized. It may be the best thing we've had, but that is changing and we need to keep up.
Nope, in Europe pretty much everyone buys a manual transmission, but you can buy an automatic if you want to. Rental places usually have automatics available (for US visitors mostly) but they cost more.
In a simulation like a video game, there are no road imperfections, steering dead zones, alignment, or tire balancing issues
You obviously never used one of the early analogue joysticks on the PC where you had to frequently re-calibrate or you would get drift. They even had sliders to adjust the center point mid-game.
This is why I always wanted www to be replaced by web. Just imaging saying web.foobar.com instead of www.foobar.com. How many hours of speech would be saved?
When I'm doing DIY I tend to measure with whatever unit happens to be on the more convenient side of the tape measure. I often end up measuring an area of 31 (inches) by 72 (cm), or somesuch.
For those who don't get the joke, US and International Pints/Gallons are different. It makes all the discussions on here about fuel economy really hard to follow as a brit.
I stopped using AdBlock when I realised I don't mind ads in principle, I only mind: * dodgy javascript (noscript) * flash (flashblock) * animated gifs (some setting in about:config)
with these 3, I almost never see ads anyway, and the ones I do are inobtrusive and I don't mind them.
We made great use of it once in an internal web-based system. There was a command-line client that basically just did a GET/POST and then parsed the xhtml with an xml parser to display the output, which made implementing that a doddle. Coding the website to be xhtml compliant added very little overhead, much less than defining a whole separate soap service or similar.
Replying to myself because no-one else is listening.:)
I just ripped Madonna's "Like a Prayer" from "The Immaculate collection" to flac. I then converted it to 64Kps MP3 with Lame 3.98 using options "-b 64 -h -q 0"
Honestly I cannot tell the difference. I'd love someone who thinks 128Kbps sucks to do the same and tell me where in the track I should hear a difference, and what that difference is.
I already am using headphones. But at least out of the 3 AC responses you were the only one not to insult me.
I'm genuinely interested in what difference I'm supposed to be hearing - do you or anyone else have any examples of music where I might notice the difference? Preferably a FLAC source so I can do my own encoding to aleviate crappy-encoder results.
Why are they crap? So you have to rewind the film when you're done - big whoop. The quality is perfectly adequate for watching a film on a normal size TV.
I know people who do - after all, you can get VHS films for peanuts second hand. Literally, they are cheaper than a bag of peanuts. And certainly a lot cheaper than renting a DVD.
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You are of course correct, I was assuming the poster was referring to a residential account.
Ok, terminology difference. I'm referring to the terms of the contract as the rules, which seems reasonable to me. I'd be very suprised if you could find a UK contract that would permit what you are doing, it's a standard exclusion.
My comment that "Not sure what the US rules are." just meant, I wasn't sure if such terms are standard for US-based ISPs.
At least in the UK you would be violating your ISPs terms and conditions by knowingly allowing your neighbors access. Not sure what the US rules are.
Hopefully within a generation the absurd notion that animal testing is good will die out. Animals are fixed, and there's not much we can do to improve their ability to model disease in humans. On the other hand, alternative methods are improving massively and have overtaken animal experimentation in many areas.
Animal testing is barbaric and uncivilized. It may be the best thing we've had, but that is changing and we need to keep up.
For more info, see http://www.drhadwentrust.org/faqs
Shroedingers cat walks into a bar and doesn't.
Since when do ads get loaded after the content?
When you're using Opera - at least, it doesn't wait for them before rendering the page.
When did the word badware appear? Is it because some people couldn't cope with Malware?
Get up to Bletchley Park, home of the UK WW2 code breaking effort. And Oxford is good too (way better than Cambridge, and cheaper to get to).
I accept your challenge - have you got a .torrent link for the flac?
My WinXP machines don't run antivirus software. Yet they have never had a virus.
It's not the 'machine' that gets the virus, it's the badly educated user.
Nope, in Europe pretty much everyone buys a manual transmission, but you can buy an automatic if you want to. Rental places usually have automatics available (for US visitors mostly) but they cost more.
In a simulation like a video game, there are no road imperfections, steering dead zones, alignment, or tire balancing issues
You obviously never used one of the early analogue joysticks on the PC where you had to frequently re-calibrate or you would get drift. They even had sliders to adjust the center point mid-game.
Say you're braking around a turn
Which is not a good idea. You should brake before the turn and accelerate through it. http://www.modernracer.com/tips/brakingaroundacorner.html
This is why I always wanted www to be replaced by web. Just imaging saying web.foobar.com instead of www.foobar.com. How many hours of speech would be saved?
What about communal push-button showers in the gym/swimming pool changing room, then?
no other browser offers keyword searches
Like most cool browser features, Opera had it first.
When I'm doing DIY I tend to measure with whatever unit happens to be on the more convenient side of the tape measure. I often end up measuring an area of 31 (inches) by 72 (cm), or somesuch.
For those who don't get the joke, US and International Pints/Gallons are different. It makes all the discussions on here about fuel economy really hard to follow as a brit.
I stopped using AdBlock when I realised I don't mind ads in principle, I only mind:
* dodgy javascript (noscript)
* flash (flashblock)
* animated gifs (some setting in about:config)
with these 3, I almost never see ads anyway, and the ones I do are inobtrusive and I don't mind them.
We made great use of it once in an internal web-based system. There was a command-line client that basically just did a GET/POST and then parsed the xhtml with an xml parser to display the output, which made implementing that a doddle. Coding the website to be xhtml compliant added very little overhead, much less than defining a whole separate soap service or similar.
Replying to myself because no-one else is listening. :)
I just ripped Madonna's "Like a Prayer" from "The Immaculate collection" to flac. I then converted it to 64Kps MP3 with Lame 3.98 using options "-b 64 -h -q 0"
Honestly I cannot tell the difference. I'd love someone who thinks 128Kbps sucks to do the same and tell me where in the track I should hear a difference, and what that difference is.
Paracetamol (sorry so much easier for me to type)
Also, I don't think there's a pun for acetaminophen.
Q: Why are there no painkillers in the jungle?
A: Because the parrots eat 'em all
You've lost your point.
Just cos you say it, don't make it so. Why not try actually addressing my points?
I already am using headphones. But at least out of the 3 AC responses you were the only one not to insult me. I'm genuinely interested in what difference I'm supposed to be hearing - do you or anyone else have any examples of music where I might notice the difference? Preferably a FLAC source so I can do my own encoding to aleviate crappy-encoder results.
Why are they crap? So you have to rewind the film when you're done - big whoop. The quality is perfectly adequate for watching a film on a normal size TV.
I know people who do - after all, you can get VHS films for peanuts second hand. Literally, they are cheaper than a bag of peanuts. And certainly a lot cheaper than renting a DVD.