Blu-ray seems more geared to the studios; their trailers, their encryption, etc.; than to the person actually BUYING the disc. It's like the studios invented blu-ray just to piss people off and turn them off to the whole idea of a HD video format.
They invented Blu-Ray to fully monetize the high-def video market, which includes all those things in the first sentence.
you can do this by downloading some tool that comes from the project itself, and then using it to generate a KML file.
Not too hard, but does anyone know more, or have a simpler way?
You know, posting this sort of comment on a geek site, where you're really expected to not only be able to download files and load them into existing programs, but you're also expected to (in extreme cases at least) be able to hack into the ftp site using a whistle made from old Pringles containers and then write the downloader and application file in 6502 assembly, while creating run on sentences in Slashdot, is likely to get somebody to tell you to go back to Digg.
So, are you finished with it yet, or should I go back to reading Digg?
I am running XP. I guess I am a wussy-user as I rarely go over the 15-tab mark. Currently I run with NoScript blocking most everything, but I haven't noticed that it mitigates the memory usage compared with not running NoScript.
Are you including virtual memory in that figure? I can't seem to fun FF without at least 100MB of physical memory, but I never see the sum of physical and virtual go over 600MB (Jesus! I have really lowered my expectations thinking that isn't a lot!) with 15 tabs open for a week.
Don't forget about the "super action controller" for the Colecovision. It was the pistol grip-style, four buttons on the grip, a joystick, a dial-like thingy, and a keypad. Hell, I bet you could play Guitar Hero with it...
Yes, I am an American. We elected Bush twice (do some research into our electoral system). I don't spin. Usually.
I was commenting on the poster's use of language, i.e., "politician" versus "regular citizen." It's a common, uneducated misconception in our country that congressmen are endowed with some special magic not possessed by mere mortals. People understand so little of what goes on in capital hill; if they really understood, many new faces would be showing up in Washington next election.
propose that politians should have no privacy. All their records should be open long before the regular citizen should go through that.
Politicians are regular citizens. Maybe if more people realized that fact it would be easier to not be afraid of them, and we then could really get some change going in this country.
comment, I agree in general with your premise. Another way to look at it is: after the 2008 US election, 40 million people could have taken to the streets in protest of the result. That's a shitload of people, and would look like something really underhanded happened in the election.
Similarly, the expected outcome of the 2004 election was "President John Kerry," yet he lost decidedly amidst gasps of democrat horror.
I miss those days. Commies were red, beer was cold, and homosexuals were flaming! These days I work with two guys from former eastern block countries, some beer is supposed to be served less-than-ice-cold, and everyone is gay. Where is W.O.P.R. and a game of thermonuclear war when you need it? Hell, the government probably hosts it on EC3...
Not any more. The climate may have been changing for the last 5 billion years, but the buck stops here! As a nation we officially oppose any changes in the climate. We are one people for one season, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all! Mostly.
Scientific and technological thought and practice of 100 years ago fails as an analogue for the same today. Are you really comparing the transistor to time travel? Hmmm, maybe a capacitor...Oh wait, that was invented in the 1700's. Either way, yes, we think something is impossible only to be proven wrong time and time again. At least via conventional physics.
So, if the untestable theories - which exist to explain the gaps in not-directly-observable-but-currently-held theories - are correct, then we may be able to harness the power of something which may not even exist locally, to produce something not currently believed possible?
I'm in. Where do I send the post-dated check (for security, of course; he can travel into the future and cash it).
I should add that the distinction between intelligence and insanity blurs as the relationship between the facts becomes weaker. Well, at least to the observer of the intelligent/insane person.
I've always viewed intelligence as the ability to take unrelated facts and create new and original ideas from their synthesis.
Intelligence, like insanity, is finding links between seemingly unrelated facts. It can also be keen observation and recognition of interactions between things where others see chaos. Either way, truly unrelated things are just that: unrelated.
I wish they described how the discovered got funneled up to the supernova scientists on the paper published on it. She must have been with someone who really knew that the "new star" she saw there wasn't supposed to be there, and that person deserves some credit, too!
Could be a new take on the over-bearing parent forcing the child to achieve: "Caroline, you will take credit for this astronomical discovery or it is right to bed with no dessert for you! Do you understand me?...No, I don't care if your father dragged you out against your will. College admissions will eat this story up...What? Well I have news for you: You love astronomy and you are going to college!"
I think you missed your own point. The reasons for war were not dubious until mid-war when Dems and certain media decided being against the war would win an election. Public opinion followed from a boat-load of Kool Aid drinking and hindsight that maybe Saddam was too crazy to develop WMDs.
Who in their right mind relishes the deaths of their own people for any cause? Not one single person (now, I haven't talked to everyone, but I'm willing to guess) wanted anyone to die. The difference is that some people see the dead and think, "a fallen hero fighting for his country," and others think, "a pawn to position in my [bid for reelection|attempt to attract advertisers to my network]."
People have sacrificed so much for this country over our 250 years, and we are so unbelievably detached from that sense of sacrifice. Almost everyone born in the 1960s or later has led a charmed life, relatively speaking.
So that makes the thousands lost in Iraq, a war started for dubious reasons, okay?
Judging history via hindsight is dubious.
In the wake of thousands dead in various attacks including the Trade Towers, the crazy nature of Saddam, the fact that he had used chemical weapons in the past, violation of UN mandates for a decade following the Gulf War and ejection of nuclear inspectors during that same time, it didn't seem so dubious. In fact, not only was the president's rating high, but almost all of congress was behind him.
Fast forward a couple years towards an election year, and suddenly the democrats had the wool pulled over their eyes (just like the "torture" bullshit that went on a few months ago) and "the Bushies" lied to the American people. Lives were being lost in an "un-winnable war" and the press was eager to report the latest deaths like there would be an award for it.
People are fickle, short-sighted, and easily swayed by their favorite talking heads in between commercial lobotomies for Easy Cheese and microwave dinners.
...the populist tide didn't turn against the Iraq war until the US body count really started going up.
It's not that the body count "really started going up," but that the only reporting from the field was the body count. The only people who think the body count is too high are: people who lost someone close to them and therefore to whom one is too high a count; and people opposed to war without regard for body count. We lost more than 60,000 in Vietnam; 40,000 in Korea; more than a quarter million in WWII; more than 500,000 in the civil war.
Blaming the voters for government problems might have been reasonable two centuries ago...
We still vote these buffoons into office, so I think we still have the blame. We have unreasonable expectations of government support. By and large people don't realize that they work for us, and it is our responsibility to make sure they do their job!
The two-party system argument against our government is crap. Yes, you will in your lifetime most certainly have a Dem or Repub president, but the legislature is where it's at, man. Put the fear of god in you representative that party-line politics won't get them reelected. Knock your senator off their "I'm royalty" high horse. This is the in-road for third-party candidates. This is how libertarians and greens will effect policy change.
If I were to point to anything that I consider broken in our government, it would be a lack of term limits on senators and representatives. They hold real power, and the connections they make in twenty years on the job do work against the peoples' interests.
Legislating from the judicial branch is a whole other issue.
In May, the White House launched what it called an 'unprecedented online process for public engagement in policymaking.'
Don't we already have this? It's called voting. The congress works for us, and it is our job to use our vote and our voice with our local representatives to effect policy change. This idea sounds more like the equivalent of inviting the entire country to a 'town hall' meeting.
I get the feeling that people think our government is broken. It is no more broken than your car is if you drive to work backwards. Either you are using it wrong, or you are too stupid to use it correctly. Either way, don't blame the car; get a new driver.
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Blu-ray seems more geared to the studios; their trailers, their encryption, etc.; than to the person actually BUYING the disc. It's like the studios invented blu-ray just to piss people off and turn them off to the whole idea of a HD video format.
They invented Blu-Ray to fully monetize the high-def video market, which includes all those things in the first sentence.
You know, posting this sort of comment on a geek site, where you're really expected to not only be able to download files and load them into existing programs, but you're also expected to (in extreme cases at least) be able to hack into the ftp site using a whistle made from old Pringles containers and then write the downloader and application file in 6502 assembly, while creating run on sentences in Slashdot, is likely to get somebody to tell you to go back to Digg.
So, are you finished with it yet, or should I go back to reading Digg?
I'm writing in "Earth's anus."
I am running XP. I guess I am a wussy-user as I rarely go over the 15-tab mark. Currently I run with NoScript blocking most everything, but I haven't noticed that it mitigates the memory usage compared with not running NoScript.
(frequently over a gig of it)
Are you including virtual memory in that figure? I can't seem to fun FF without at least 100MB of physical memory, but I never see the sum of physical and virtual go over 600MB (Jesus! I have really lowered my expectations thinking that isn't a lot!) with 15 tabs open for a week.
Don't forget about the "super action controller" for the Colecovision. It was the pistol grip-style, four buttons on the grip, a joystick, a dial-like thingy, and a keypad. Hell, I bet you could play Guitar Hero with it...
Whoops, that should be "capitol." Guess I'm not a very bright child after all. Damn these not-context-sensitive spell checkers!
Yes, I am an American. We elected Bush twice (do some research into our electoral system). I don't spin. Usually.
I was commenting on the poster's use of language, i.e., "politician" versus "regular citizen." It's a common, uneducated misconception in our country that congressmen are endowed with some special magic not possessed by mere mortals. People understand so little of what goes on in capital hill; if they really understood, many new faces would be showing up in Washington next election.
propose that politians should have no privacy. All their records should be open long before the regular citizen should go through that.
Politicians are regular citizens. Maybe if more people realized that fact it would be easier to not be afraid of them, and we then could really get some change going in this country.
While I don't like your implication with the
under-educated rural religiouly conservative masses
comment, I agree in general with your premise. Another way to look at it is: after the 2008 US election, 40 million people could have taken to the streets in protest of the result. That's a shitload of people, and would look like something really underhanded happened in the election.
Similarly, the expected outcome of the 2004 election was "President John Kerry," yet he lost decidedly amidst gasps of democrat horror.
I miss those days. Commies were red, beer was cold, and homosexuals were flaming! These days I work with two guys from former eastern block countries, some beer is supposed to be served less-than-ice-cold, and everyone is gay. Where is W.O.P.R. and a game of thermonuclear war when you need it? Hell, the government probably hosts it on EC3...
Not any more. The climate may have been changing for the last 5 billion years, but the buck stops here! As a nation we officially oppose any changes in the climate. We are one people for one season, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all! Mostly.
Scientific and technological thought and practice of 100 years ago fails as an analogue for the same today. Are you really comparing the transistor to time travel? Hmmm, maybe a capacitor...Oh wait, that was invented in the 1700's. Either way, yes, we think something is impossible only to be proven wrong time and time again. At least via conventional physics.
So, if the untestable theories - which exist to explain the gaps in not-directly-observable-but-currently-held theories - are correct, then we may be able to harness the power of something which may not even exist locally, to produce something not currently believed possible?
I'm in. Where do I send the post-dated check (for security, of course; he can travel into the future and cash it).
I should add that the distinction between intelligence and insanity blurs as the relationship between the facts becomes weaker. Well, at least to the observer of the intelligent/insane person.
I've always viewed intelligence as the ability to take unrelated facts and create new and original ideas from their synthesis.
Intelligence, like insanity, is finding links between seemingly unrelated facts. It can also be keen observation and recognition of interactions between things where others see chaos. Either way, truly unrelated things are just that: unrelated.
it just repeats what other people have said
I don't see anything new here, most people have done this since the beginning of time.
Yeah, Textrunner just repeats what other people have said, like most people since the beginning of time.
Could be a new take on the over-bearing parent forcing the child to achieve: "Caroline, you will take credit for this astronomical discovery or it is right to bed with no dessert for you! Do you understand me?...No, I don't care if your father dragged you out against your will. College admissions will eat this story up...What? Well I have news for you: You love astronomy and you are going to college!"
Kirstey Alley inside the Astrodome on an ice cream binge?
I think you missed your own point. The reasons for war were not dubious until mid-war when Dems and certain media decided being against the war would win an election. Public opinion followed from a boat-load of Kool Aid drinking and hindsight that maybe Saddam was too crazy to develop WMDs.
Who in their right mind relishes the deaths of their own people for any cause? Not one single person (now, I haven't talked to everyone, but I'm willing to guess) wanted anyone to die. The difference is that some people see the dead and think, "a fallen hero fighting for his country," and others think, "a pawn to position in my [bid for reelection|attempt to attract advertisers to my network]."
People have sacrificed so much for this country over our 250 years, and we are so unbelievably detached from that sense of sacrifice. Almost everyone born in the 1960s or later has led a charmed life, relatively speaking.
Judging history via hindsight is dubious.
In the wake of thousands dead in various attacks including the Trade Towers, the crazy nature of Saddam, the fact that he had used chemical weapons in the past, violation of UN mandates for a decade following the Gulf War and ejection of nuclear inspectors during that same time, it didn't seem so dubious. In fact, not only was the president's rating high, but almost all of congress was behind him.
Fast forward a couple years towards an election year, and suddenly the democrats had the wool pulled over their eyes (just like the "torture" bullshit that went on a few months ago) and "the Bushies" lied to the American people. Lives were being lost in an "un-winnable war" and the press was eager to report the latest deaths like there would be an award for it.
People are fickle, short-sighted, and easily swayed by their favorite talking heads in between commercial lobotomies for Easy Cheese and microwave dinners.
It's not that the body count "really started going up," but that the only reporting from the field was the body count. The only people who think the body count is too high are: people who lost someone close to them and therefore to whom one is too high a count; and people opposed to war without regard for body count. We lost more than 60,000 in Vietnam; 40,000 in Korea; more than a quarter million in WWII; more than 500,000 in the civil war.
Change that to "It's a pirate-ninja AND it's a robot!," and you may be on to something.
We still vote these buffoons into office, so I think we still have the blame. We have unreasonable expectations of government support. By and large people don't realize that they work for us, and it is our responsibility to make sure they do their job!
The two-party system argument against our government is crap. Yes, you will in your lifetime most certainly have a Dem or Repub president, but the legislature is where it's at, man. Put the fear of god in you representative that party-line politics won't get them reelected. Knock your senator off their "I'm royalty" high horse. This is the in-road for third-party candidates. This is how libertarians and greens will effect policy change.
If I were to point to anything that I consider broken in our government, it would be a lack of term limits on senators and representatives. They hold real power, and the connections they make in twenty years on the job do work against the peoples' interests.
Legislating from the judicial branch is a whole other issue.
Don't we already have this? It's called voting. The congress works for us, and it is our job to use our vote and our voice with our local representatives to effect policy change. This idea sounds more like the equivalent of inviting the entire country to a 'town hall' meeting.
I get the feeling that people think our government is broken. It is no more broken than your car is if you drive to work backwards. Either you are using it wrong, or you are too stupid to use it correctly. Either way, don't blame the car; get a new driver.