Exactly... as opposed to Sharpton and Jackson, who actually ruined the lives of a couple of "rich white guy" lacrosse players (also college sports players) accused of rape, who not only got away with destroying their lives (as opposed to just hurting their feelings with a few badly chosen words), but Jackson is giving the accuser a free college education!
The moral of the story? You can say whatever you want and get away with it... if you're black. Otherwise watch out for the "hit squads" listening to your radio show at every hour, even when nobody else is.
My best Vonnegut moment was when I was watching that Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back To School" in a theatre. In one scene, there's a knock at the door, and Rodney opens the door, and it's a curly-haired guy who is his tutor for the writings of Vonnegut. That's when I started laughing. Three seconds later, after he says that he is Kurt Vonnegut, the rest of the audience starts laughing.
With a five-digit user ID, you shouldn't have to check. That is a classic copypasta ("BSD is dying") from the early days of Slashdot, and probably the most well-known one among the Slashdot crowd.
Blue and White G3s esentially cost nothing now beyond the cost of the RAM and HD inside (and the cost of shipping), and they run Tiger quite decently. They also take the same CPU upgrades as the early G4 systems. The only problem is they don't take 512M or larger DIMMs, and they don't take 8-chip 256M DIMMs (the 16-chip versions have been a bit hard for me to find as salvage). I've got two of them working quite well next to my (purchased new) MDD/Windtunnel dual 1G G4 (which is awesome for having four HD bays and two optical bays).
But if I did buy a copy then in the UK at least it would be quite legal for me to run it anywhere I wanted.
Yes... on a PPC CPU. Apple does not include the x86 version of OS X Tiger in retail copies. You would not be running what you bought. ("I bought a copy of the Boston Pops doing Beethoven's Fifth symphony, so it should be quite legal for me to download any version of Beethoven's Fifth ever recorded.")
...and now, thanks to Clone Channel and a few other brodcasting megaopolies (which came to power after the FCC dropped most of the ownership requrements that kept the diversity in radio stations), many stations are close to not even having a DJ! They've just got a computer that goes through the lists and inserts commercials, one guy to do announce the records and do live commercials (but can't choose songs at whim), and a maybe a couple of guys who do the news breaks for about ten stations at the same time.
I don't think there's such a thing as "AAC-lossless". I think you're confused about Apple Lossless Audio Compression (ALAC), which is the same idea as FLAC, only different. I've heard that the main difference is that ALAC requires less CPU activity to decode (and therefore less battery drain) than FLAC.
Yeah, and I can't buy anyhthing from iTMS Japan either. That's not Apple's fault, it's the fault of the record labels (and the media industry in general) that they want to carve up territories like that.
However, I suppose they do have a point in that according to EU laws, the same songs should be available in all of EU (I'll guess they aren't), and maybe the whole EU area should be treated as one region (with half a dozen primary languages). Again, if the music companies are telling them to restrict certain songs to certain parts of EU, it's the music companies. FTRIAA, etc.
If they don't, they'll end up in very deep trouble, because they aren't following the restrictions (required by law) for audio/video recording devices.
The AppleTV can record? I thought it was just a player for iTunes videos.
Is there something I'm missing? If that's legal, what's to stop me putting a (legal) copy os OS X on any common-or-garden x86 box?
Two things:
1. The OS X lincense states that you can only run OS X on Apple hardware. Guess what? The AppleTV is Apple hardware!
2. There is no way at this time to buy a boxed copy of OS X x86 at a store, because... they don't sell it in stores! Right now all the boxed copies of OS X are PPC-only. When Leopard comes out, then things should start to get interesting.
Personally, the first time I saw the show, it kept bothering me they'd cast someone who looked so much like Hugh Laurie, but who couldn't possibly be him.
Count me as one of the people who still didn't know until it was mentioned in this very thread. Holy crap.
I knew he was a Brit with a great American accent, and I've seen the audition video where he quite literally got it in one, but it never occurred to me that this stubbly, surly guy was the same actor who played a completely silly pouf in powder makeup.
A program written in assembly language on a Commodore 64 is faster than an algorithmically identical program written in BASIC on a MIPS4000-based SGI machine.
Which leads to the question: why is someone programming an SGI MIPS machine in BASIC? And interpreted BASIC at that?
It's the 6-15GB (I think) 3 1/2" IDE models that have the "Mission Impossible" chip in them. You know what I mean: "This drive will self-destruct in 10 months."
While the bigfoot drives may be butt-ugly, I haven't ever heard anything bad about their reliability.
If the cost of launch goes down as much as they say it will, then if the cost of a second payload and second launch is on the order of the insurance costs, it's a no-brainer.
Why build one when you can build two for twice the price?
Ah, yes, the luxury of playing PS2 games. And a couple of decent PS3 games, too.
Oh, and the luxury of playing Blu-Ray discs, which most people don't care about. I want a game system to play games, not movies and other "luxury" media.
It's actually pretty decent with a weak signal. The 8VSB ATSC signal is much more power efficient, so the "good reception" area is the same with something like 1/5 the power of an analog NTSC signal. One big problem so far has been stations running their digital transmitters at reduced broadcast power, but by now most of them are up to a good broadcast power level. In a rural area distant from transmitters, you might want an antenna rotator to get more channels.
What can really mess things up, particularly with older (2005 or earlier) tuners is being too close to the tower, and ghost signals (aka "multipath") interfering with decoding the data. If you don't aim the antenna dead-on at the transmitter farm, and sometimes even if you do, reception can be intermittent. I'm about 10-15 miles away, and reception can sometimes drop out on one or two channels, especially when it rains, or when the wind rotates my roof antenna slightly.
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Exactly... as opposed to Sharpton and Jackson, who actually ruined the lives of a couple of "rich white guy" lacrosse players (also college sports players) accused of rape, who not only got away with destroying their lives (as opposed to just hurting their feelings with a few badly chosen words), but Jackson is giving the accuser a free college education!
The moral of the story? You can say whatever you want and get away with it... if you're black. Otherwise watch out for the "hit squads" listening to your radio show at every hour, even when nobody else is.
My best Vonnegut moment was when I was watching that Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back To School" in a theatre. In one scene, there's a knock at the door, and Rodney opens the door, and it's a curly-haired guy who is his tutor for the writings of Vonnegut. That's when I started laughing. Three seconds later, after he says that he is Kurt Vonnegut, the rest of the audience starts laughing.
It's < folks!
With a five-digit user ID, you shouldn't have to check. That is a classic copypasta ("BSD is dying") from the early days of Slashdot, and probably the most well-known one among the Slashdot crowd.
Blue and White G3s esentially cost nothing now beyond the cost of the RAM and HD inside (and the cost of shipping), and they run Tiger quite decently. They also take the same CPU upgrades as the early G4 systems. The only problem is they don't take 512M or larger DIMMs, and they don't take 8-chip 256M DIMMs (the 16-chip versions have been a bit hard for me to find as salvage). I've got two of them working quite well next to my (purchased new) MDD/Windtunnel dual 1G G4 (which is awesome for having four HD bays and two optical bays).
Yes... on a PPC CPU. Apple does not include the x86 version of OS X Tiger in retail copies. You would not be running what you bought. ("I bought a copy of the Boston Pops doing Beethoven's Fifth symphony, so it should be quite legal for me to download any version of Beethoven's Fifth ever recorded.")
Because the retail discs of Tiger (DVDs, not CDs, unless you special-ordered CDs) only contain the PPC version.
...and now, thanks to Clone Channel and a few other brodcasting megaopolies (which came to power after the FCC dropped most of the ownership requrements that kept the diversity in radio stations), many stations are close to not even having a DJ! They've just got a computer that goes through the lists and inserts commercials, one guy to do announce the records and do live commercials (but can't choose songs at whim), and a maybe a couple of guys who do the news breaks for about ten stations at the same time.
I don't think there's such a thing as "AAC-lossless". I think you're confused about Apple Lossless Audio Compression (ALAC), which is the same idea as FLAC, only different. I've heard that the main difference is that ALAC requires less CPU activity to decode (and therefore less battery drain) than FLAC.
Yeah, and I can't buy anyhthing from iTMS Japan either. That's not Apple's fault, it's the fault of the record labels (and the media industry in general) that they want to carve up territories like that.
However, I suppose they do have a point in that according to EU laws, the same songs should be available in all of EU (I'll guess they aren't), and maybe the whole EU area should be treated as one region (with half a dozen primary languages). Again, if the music companies are telling them to restrict certain songs to certain parts of EU, it's the music companies. FTRIAA, etc.
The AppleTV can record? I thought it was just a player for iTunes videos.
Two things:
It is very good at opening some fucking windows. Just be sure to strap in first.
Mozilla says it's 20,000 by 20,000. And refuses to display it because "it contains errors". I would expect Firefox to do the same thing.
Of course all that really matters is what aIEeee! does with it.
Those cars are definitely drifting! In that first video, all four "wheels" are clearly going sideways at the same time.
Count me as one of the people who still didn't know until it was mentioned in this very thread. Holy crap.
I knew he was a Brit with a great American accent, and I've seen the audition video where he quite literally got it in one, but it never occurred to me that this stubbly, surly guy was the same actor who played a completely silly pouf in powder makeup.
Which leads to the question: why is someone programming an SGI MIPS machine in BASIC? And interpreted BASIC at that?
It's the 6-15GB (I think) 3 1/2" IDE models that have the "Mission Impossible" chip in them. You know what I mean: "This drive will self-destruct in 10 months."
While the bigfoot drives may be butt-ugly, I haven't ever heard anything bad about their reliability.
If the cost of launch goes down as much as they say it will, then if the cost of a second payload and second launch is on the order of the insurance costs, it's a no-brainer.
Why build one when you can build two for twice the price?
maybe you were talking about 3DO.
Of course, we all know what happened the last time someone was this blind.
Why are you such a Sega hater? The Saturn and Dreamcast were wonderful systems. One to play imports, and the other to play bootlegs.
P.S. :-)
Ah, yes, the luxury of playing PS2 games. And a couple of decent PS3 games, too.
Oh, and the luxury of playing Blu-Ray discs, which most people don't care about. I want a game system to play games, not movies and other "luxury" media.
Wouldn't you rather have a RAID of Quantum Fireballs? Now there's a drive that lived up to its name!
FYI, the caption in that link is incorrect. That wasn't a "power surge", that was under-specced silicon finally blowing out under stress.
There's a Barbie ponies game now? Better get me a PS3 right away!
It's actually pretty decent with a weak signal. The 8VSB ATSC signal is much more power efficient, so the "good reception" area is the same with something like 1/5 the power of an analog NTSC signal. One big problem so far has been stations running their digital transmitters at reduced broadcast power, but by now most of them are up to a good broadcast power level. In a rural area distant from transmitters, you might want an antenna rotator to get more channels.
What can really mess things up, particularly with older (2005 or earlier) tuners is being too close to the tower, and ghost signals (aka "multipath") interfering with decoding the data. If you don't aim the antenna dead-on at the transmitter farm, and sometimes even if you do, reception can be intermittent. I'm about 10-15 miles away, and reception can sometimes drop out on one or two channels, especially when it rains, or when the wind rotates my roof antenna slightly.