You said that the US doesn't destroy cities, towns and villages when it isn't justified by military or civilian necessity. You then said the invasion of Iraq was not, strictly speaking, a defensive military action. How can the justification of "military or civilian necessity" be invoked when it is an offensive action?
Here's some more history questions: Has the US government ever condoned slavery? Has the US ever created a policy to marginalise a specific race? How about waterboarding? You trivialise this by saying it "isn't large enough to be a crime against humanity". How much torture is enough? How about executing children?
The US aren't the only country that can be accused of making mistakes, and maybe they've made less than other countries. Whatever the case, there government has enough of a track record that vigilance is required.
Any decent external DAC will run over Firewire which has minimal CPU overhead. These are usually made for recording, maybe a bit overkill for gaming. That being said, there is a huge difference between my Focusrite and the onboard sound. 24bit 192khz ftw (though in all honesty I can't hear a difference over 96khz)
I access a website that allows the users to download a short free MP3 on a weekly basis. The long MP3 is behind a paywall. I found the link to the short MP3 embedded in their source, www.website.com/short/sound.mp3, and simply pointed my browser at www.website.com/long/sound.mp3. The website says come on in, enjoy your free MP3. It certainly raises some interesting ethical questions for me.
1. Are ethics bound by another's intention, even when their actions are not 100% consistent?
2. When one enforces an artificial scarcity, is the onus entirely on them to enforce it?
I have a MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo, circa 2008) connected to an SMB share on a Windows 7 box (1055t/8GB ram) over wireless-n (~300mbit) and 1080p STILL gets the jitters - sometimes completely fucks out at high bitrates. 720p will mostly play nice, standard divx is fine too. If I close the lid of the laptop and lose the network share, it takes about 10 minutes to find the SMB share again. All I'm saying is, if a MacBook Pro is still complaining about 1080p over 300mbit wireless-n, AppleTV is a pipe dream unless in a 100% ideal situation.
My ideal setup, based on my experience, would be to store the movies locally connected to the lappy via e-sata/usb2, run a sabnzbd server on it and download via Windows 7 desktop. Nothing else will get A+ 1080p.
So let me get this straight... they (pirate party) make an obvious move to turn it into a political fight when it isn't...
Abortion. Same sex marriage. These are obvious moves to turn something into a political fight when it's not.
and you're saying the Swedes are too stupid to figure it out, so they'll assume anyone attacking Wikileaks is attacking the Pirate Party?
The hallmark of a FUD campaign. You don't need to prove anything, just introduce a certain kind of doubt.
How many people do they intend to take on at one time? The RIAA/MPAA and several governments... including the US... I don't know about you, but if I was a Swedish citizen I'd have serious doubts about voting for someone who regularly bites off far more than they can chew.
The fact is, these groups have teamed up on us first. There is no way to attack one without attacking the others.
This is a poor testing approach. Good testing involves a variety of methods - automation is particularly handy for regression and core components, but new functionality always needs a manual touch (particularly if your software has an interface).
I couldn't count how many errors my testers find on a weekly basis by using their imaginations. It is something that simply cannot be automated.
Allow me to add to your statement - "If you can not automate the tests, you are probably do(ing) something wrong." - "If you only automate the tests, you are certainly doing something wrong."
It means that every single state that the universe has ever been in is preserved (somewhere) in it's exact state.
Yup, that's right. The only dynamic thing is a sequential unfolding of events within our personal perception. The external world however, remains at rest.
It's like a roll of film. Each moment or frame is represented in a still ("at rest") but if you add an external, motivating force like a projector (or human mind), it creates the illusion of movement. Imagination and prejudice fill in the gaps.
Sounds like a great idea. There's room on the internet for any such initiative - so much room, in fact, that it's likely that this will affect no-one except those who choose it.
Incidentally, I am exactly like this. If I am not compensated for my work I will moan and complain, but yet, it is still enjoyable to steal from others. The best part about being a pirate is enjoying the fruits of other people's labour, yet not paying for it. In addition, of course, to aggravating corporate lap dogs such as yourself.
Piracy is a victimless crime - like punching someone in the dark. If you've never punched someone in the dark, you're missing out.
BG2:SoA was awesome. Big book, back stories for everything, all notably commented by Volo and Elminster. Not to mention a cloth map of the region. The game was lent out and lost many moons ago, but every spring cleaning when I find that BG2 map I remember fondly my travels through the Underdark and the villain Irenicus (incidentally played by my favourite actor, David Warner)
Yes, Usenet is unreliable, slow, expensive, and full of broken files. I can't imagine anyone would use it when torrents are available for fast, anonymous encrypted transfer of data. Who wants to pay an extra $50 a month for Usenet?
The thing I hate most about Usenet is the hard work involved. It's not like a torrent where you can just download a file. Instead you go through folder by folder, picking out parts of a file (sometimes up to 1000 parts!) and then stitching them together, unzipping and FINALLY playing the file.
Please mod me up. It is important that all torrent users know that they should keep using torrents.
But it's such a sweet, sweet, crutch. No person in their right mind would want to quit smoking. And if it's not quite so poisonous... well I guess that's a plus, though it only factors lightly into my considerations.
Google are making a business decision, not a technical one. It's just easier to see because Google's business model relies so heavily on optimization.
As a decision-maker within a business, I too care about optimization - if you can provide me with a better bottom line. Frankly, with most business applications you will not be able to make a decent business case. So you save 5%, 10%, 15% by optimizing? Just show me that the cost of optimization is less than the overall projected benefit. But this is an unlikely scenario for most business applications.
Even within a large business, persons seeking to re-factor or fine-tune applications will not be able to justify the cost. But if you work at Google and say that it will mean 3% less servers over ten years - well, in Google's case, that's a lot of servers. The project may well be justified.
What I'm saying here is that Google cares about efficient performance inasmuch as it serves business interest, like any other company. The deciding factor for Google is the scale of its operation.
You are an Apple shill, plain and simple. So is the person who submitted this to Slashdot, trying to distract us from the real issue. Flash has been proven to work well on many devices, which no doubt accounts for its popularity - not that I'm the biggest fan of Flash sites. Everyone knows why Apple doesn't want Flash. It's because it pokes a hole in its "software ecosystem" bigger than a Mack truck.
This is why it's "impossible" to run Flash on an iPhone, but add an "iPhone compiler" and omg! suddenly it works.
We have elected Microsoft to this position by giving them our money. You may discriminate between the power of government and the power of a corporation, but in practice there is no difference.
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It's only treason if Mr. Assange is a US citizen. Because he's not, it's just bad luck.
Dude, he's probably like 12 years old. Relax.
You said that the US doesn't destroy cities, towns and villages when it isn't justified by military or civilian necessity. You then said the invasion of Iraq was not, strictly speaking, a defensive military action. How can the justification of "military or civilian necessity" be invoked when it is an offensive action?
Here's some more history questions: Has the US government ever condoned slavery? Has the US ever created a policy to marginalise a specific race? How about waterboarding? You trivialise this by saying it "isn't large enough to be a crime against humanity". How much torture is enough? How about executing children?
The US aren't the only country that can be accused of making mistakes, and maybe they've made less than other countries. Whatever the case, there government has enough of a track record that vigilance is required.
Gold plated cables are not good for sound quality, they're good on the road though because they don't corrode.
Any decent external DAC will run over Firewire which has minimal CPU overhead. These are usually made for recording, maybe a bit overkill for gaming. That being said, there is a huge difference between my Focusrite and the onboard sound. 24bit 192khz ftw (though in all honesty I can't hear a difference over 96khz)
I access a website that allows the users to download a short free MP3 on a weekly basis. The long MP3 is behind a paywall. I found the link to the short MP3 embedded in their source, www.website.com/short/sound.mp3, and simply pointed my browser at www.website.com/long/sound.mp3. The website says come on in, enjoy your free MP3. It certainly raises some interesting ethical questions for me.
1. Are ethics bound by another's intention, even when their actions are not 100% consistent?
2. When one enforces an artificial scarcity, is the onus entirely on them to enforce it?
Fragment. Consider revising.
Of course the important submissions will be resubmitted. Unless the submitter died from a suicide, or heart attack.
I have a MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo, circa 2008) connected to an SMB share on a Windows 7 box (1055t/8GB ram) over wireless-n (~300mbit) and 1080p STILL gets the jitters - sometimes completely fucks out at high bitrates. 720p will mostly play nice, standard divx is fine too. If I close the lid of the laptop and lose the network share, it takes about 10 minutes to find the SMB share again. All I'm saying is, if a MacBook Pro is still complaining about 1080p over 300mbit wireless-n, AppleTV is a pipe dream unless in a 100% ideal situation.
My ideal setup, based on my experience, would be to store the movies locally connected to the lappy via e-sata/usb2, run a sabnzbd server on it and download via Windows 7 desktop. Nothing else will get A+ 1080p.
In my case, the packet of crisps most certainly diminishes the further away I get from the shop.
They're just fighting fire with fire.
So let me get this straight ... they (pirate party) make an obvious move to turn it into a political fight when it isn't ...
Abortion. Same sex marriage. These are obvious moves to turn something into a political fight when it's not.
and you're saying the Swedes are too stupid to figure it out, so they'll assume anyone attacking Wikileaks is attacking the Pirate Party?
The hallmark of a FUD campaign. You don't need to prove anything, just introduce a certain kind of doubt.
How many people do they intend to take on at one time? The RIAA/MPAA and several governments ... including the US ... I don't know about you, but if I was a Swedish citizen I'd have serious doubts about voting for someone who regularly bites off far more than they can chew.
The fact is, these groups have teamed up on us first. There is no way to attack one without attacking the others.
This is a poor testing approach. Good testing involves a variety of methods - automation is particularly handy for regression and core components, but new functionality always needs a manual touch (particularly if your software has an interface).
I couldn't count how many errors my testers find on a weekly basis by using their imaginations. It is something that simply cannot be automated.
Allow me to add to your statement - "If you can not automate the tests, you are probably do(ing) something wrong." - "If you only automate the tests, you are certainly doing something wrong."
When Terrence Malick shoots a film on 3D, then it's a real medium, and not just a gimmick. :)
Yes I can see it now. Grass. Green grass. Yellow grass. Brown grass. All in glorious grassy 3D!
It means that every single state that the universe has ever been in is preserved (somewhere) in it's exact state.
Yup, that's right. The only dynamic thing is a sequential unfolding of events within our personal perception. The external world however, remains at rest.
It's like a roll of film. Each moment or frame is represented in a still ("at rest") but if you add an external, motivating force like a projector (or human mind), it creates the illusion of movement. Imagination and prejudice fill in the gaps.
Sounds like a great idea. There's room on the internet for any such initiative - so much room, in fact, that it's likely that this will affect no-one except those who choose it.
Incidentally, I am exactly like this. If I am not compensated for my work I will moan and complain, but yet, it is still enjoyable to steal from others. The best part about being a pirate is enjoying the fruits of other people's labour, yet not paying for it. In addition, of course, to aggravating corporate lap dogs such as yourself.
Piracy is a victimless crime - like punching someone in the dark. If you've never punched someone in the dark, you're missing out.
Feels good man.
BG2:SoA was awesome. Big book, back stories for everything, all notably commented by Volo and Elminster. Not to mention a cloth map of the region. The game was lent out and lost many moons ago, but every spring cleaning when I find that BG2 map I remember fondly my travels through the Underdark and the villain Irenicus (incidentally played by my favourite actor, David Warner)
Yes, Usenet is unreliable, slow, expensive, and full of broken files. I can't imagine anyone would use it when torrents are available for fast, anonymous encrypted transfer of data. Who wants to pay an extra $50 a month for Usenet?
The thing I hate most about Usenet is the hard work involved. It's not like a torrent where you can just download a file. Instead you go through folder by folder, picking out parts of a file (sometimes up to 1000 parts!) and then stitching them together, unzipping and FINALLY playing the file.
Please mod me up. It is important that all torrent users know that they should keep using torrents.
Signed, Happy Usenet Customer
But it's such a sweet, sweet, crutch. No person in their right mind would want to quit smoking. And if it's not quite so poisonous... well I guess that's a plus, though it only factors lightly into my considerations.
Yes, I can't believe these sick media freaks would dare to play down the necessity of war.
Google are making a business decision, not a technical one. It's just easier to see because Google's business model relies so heavily on optimization.
As a decision-maker within a business, I too care about optimization - if you can provide me with a better bottom line. Frankly, with most business applications you will not be able to make a decent business case. So you save 5%, 10%, 15% by optimizing? Just show me that the cost of optimization is less than the overall projected benefit. But this is an unlikely scenario for most business applications.
Even within a large business, persons seeking to re-factor or fine-tune applications will not be able to justify the cost. But if you work at Google and say that it will mean 3% less servers over ten years - well, in Google's case, that's a lot of servers. The project may well be justified.
What I'm saying here is that Google cares about efficient performance inasmuch as it serves business interest, like any other company. The deciding factor for Google is the scale of its operation.
Absolutely. This is an old /b/ trick.
You are an Apple shill, plain and simple. So is the person who submitted this to Slashdot, trying to distract us from the real issue. Flash has been proven to work well on many devices, which no doubt accounts for its popularity - not that I'm the biggest fan of Flash sites. Everyone knows why Apple doesn't want Flash. It's because it pokes a hole in its "software ecosystem" bigger than a Mack truck.
This is why it's "impossible" to run Flash on an iPhone, but add an "iPhone compiler" and omg! suddenly it works.
We have elected Microsoft to this position by giving them our money. You may discriminate between the power of government and the power of a corporation, but in practice there is no difference.
Ahm sorry, I thought you was corn