I'm thirty-(mumble) and married, etc. My parents recently gave me three garbage bags full of old cassette tapes that I'd left at their house aeons ago.
Among the gems, a tape of some favorite LPs! But for a crackle or two, "perfect", er, analog copies:) (Actually, only one crackle that my ear could detect. The copies are perfect from my point of view)
They were albums that a high school friend had owned. I think the bands in question withstood my "piracy" and survived for years. Certainly the record companies in question did;)
... to say "all browsers have bugs! Therefore IE is no worse than other browsers!"
People seem to keep chanting that like a mantra. That's as stupid as saying "some old grannys are murderers, so young men are no more dangerous than old grannys!"
Once the warm feeling of tolerence and equality has worn off, you gain nothing. Oh well, all browsers are equally insecure, so I'll just use any old browser. Which is stupid; clearly IE is more insecure. It has more bugs and more security holes. Saying warm fuzzy sounding things gives you no tools for choosing which browser to use.
An excerpt from the pilot:
Crais is the captain of a command carrier ship belonging to a military empire known as Peacekeepers. Peacekeepers are an oppressive, human-like species known for keeping "peace" and "stability" with the use of brutality and military cunning. One of their jobs is the assassination and imprisonment of political dissidents and trouble makers.
Hmm... haven't I seen this somewhere else recently...
No, you're thinking of the plot where the crazed billionaire loser convinces a bunch of young poor religious fanatic losers to be suicidal mass murderers, while he hides in the far reaches of the galaxy....
Walmart is the beginning of the end of American Middle Class.
Bull*. The Meijer chain in Michigan and Ohio has been around (in that region at least) a lot longer than Wal-Mart. Until Wal-Mart started adding some food, Meijer was even more of the giant superstore where you could buy everything, usually for less than smaller stores, than Wal-Mart is. Actually, they still have Wal-Mart beat on selection (a real, complete, grocery store in addition to a full department store all in one building) though Wal-Mart beats them a little on price.
Anyway, they've been around for many decades. We still have a middle class around here. Everything is fine. Get a grip.
Those of you bashing the GIMP... what, exactly, do you think that it is missing? Do you really know that what you need is missing, or have you just not bothered to look in the menus?
I can't help but wonder if this is one of those "it doesn't look exactly like my old stuff, so I hate it" syndrome. I *love* the GIMP interface. Get the damn menus out of my way unless I want them.
These people don't play CDs with just a high end CD player, you'll find they use what is called a CD "transport" which is a CD player with a digital out. For a nice one, a few grand at least, ranging up to five figures for these things. Then you need to feed this wonderfully accurate string of 0's and 1's into a DAC. Not just the crappy DACs in your receiver of sound card, these DAC units are generally made to match the CD transport and will probably cost somewhere between half and double the cost of the transport itself. Then, with your thousand dollar interconnect cables (a pair of RCA plugs, for example, but you'll find preference towards 'balanced' connectors), they'll connect it to a preamplifier and then into a power amp, which may be a set of monoblocks (one power amp per speaker, sometimes they bi-amp them, too!). Then you've got the speaker cables and speakers
How do they mount all this stuff inside the cardboard boxes they must live in?
Lifestreams orders information by date - imagine that you remember writing a memo just before Easter vacation this year. Then, you would scan documents created around that time period, and hopefully find it in a few seconds
If I really want to, I can already do that. Sure it's not as easy, but that's not how I normally find things anyway. It's much more likely that I'll want a document about taxes, filed under a tax directory, or a personal letter, filed under somthing similarly appropriate.
That's generally how it works in the off line world as well; we sort things, compartmentalize them, etc. I look for food in the pantry; I don't just sniff and walk around. Searching is a great backup, but it makes a silly primary mechanism.
Mozilla is my main mail client now, on Windows XP, and that never happens to me. Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe there is some other issue at work here, but I thought I'd share that.
It's only media and Democrats ...
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... and of course, euro-slashbots, who think there is any need for electronic voting in the US, or in fact think there is a technical problem at all.
There isn't. US jurisdictions use and have used a variety of methods, but most commonly a punch card counted by machine, and there is nothing wrong with this method. It works fine.
The supposed "problem" was an attempt to overturn the results of an election. The media and the lawerly clas were fully on board, but it didn't work. It almost worked, though, so they're going to keep trying.
Trouble is, euro-slashbots only get to see what is in the media. So they (because it is in their interest) sneer and agree with the talking heads. Only the media and a tiny hardcore group of Democrats actually nurse the belief that election "irregularities" benefited Bush. I think we all know who the dead people and the non-citizens voted for, and it sure as hell wasn't Bush.
5. (This part will sound obvious to most people familiar with democracy, but americans may find it surprising) The candidate with the most votes wins.
Har har. And in countries of any size, where a true federation makes sense, the candidate with the most votes in a region wins an elector. Which is what happened. Bush won the most votes in Florida, no matter how many times Democrat canvassing boards got all metaphysical and postmodern with scrutinizing ballots. By the way, those are your "people" who would be counting the pen marks in the boxes. Yeah, that would be better, I guess, if you are the cheater.
The quality of life there was unmatched by anything I have found in the Bay Area (where I live now), even though I made a fraction then of what I make now. The sad thing is that most Americans don't realize how poor the quality of life in America actually is. (In case you are wondering why I didn't stay there--it's because my friends, family, and job are here.)
I just don't know what to say about the intellectual capacity of someone who judges the quality of life in the US by looking at the Bay area.
If you don't like the Bay area, why don't you check out the other 99.9999% of the country?
They haven't been communist for a long time now. Their economy is a mix between capitalism and communism. There are both private corporations and government communist corporations
Depends on what you mean. There are two common meanings for "communism"; a system of government, and an economic arrangement. They are of course intertwined. Communist apologists benefit from the confusion.
China is a brutal dictatorship. It is not a democracy. Government owns many companies, and can crush the rest at a whim. It can and does "nationalize" companies that it didn't own before, when it wants to.
That's nice that they allow more private ownership and enterprise now. It would be nicer if there was a political structure and a culture that would prevent that from being swept away at a whim (or selectively crushed if one person or company "gets out of line").
They are just utilizing a method for submitting data that the site owners themselves have provided. I don't see any reason to call this 'spam' since the site owners are inviting users to submit data through HTTP referral headers.
By this logic, isn't anyone with an email address inviting any and all to send them email? How does that distinguish it from spam?
"By not building a fence aroud your entire yard, you are inviting dogs to come use it as a toilet". Not if I'm home and I have my garden hose hooked up...;)
MI - state representative Paul DeWeese (running for state senate) spammed a list of state email addresses, with a message about how he stands with state employees, shares their outrage at the overuse of contractors, etc. and how he'll continue to work to have more of them, and less of contractors. A blatent political ad.
What he didn't realize it that many contractors have state email addresses. At my workplace, many, many contractors got this email. I don't think it had the effect he was hoping for!;)
oh wait -- that's what WE do, complaining that we DO have the rights they tell us we don't have, without actually leaving our own country... hmmmm... makes you think? probably not.
I'd bet quite a bit... that I am more widely travelled than you. Not a boast, just a very good guess. Hey, you brought it up.
My Russian Professor in college used to regularly speak about how here we pretended to have freedom but had none while in the Soviet Union they had very little freedom but what there was was all REAL freedom. I've heard very similar comments from immigrants from countries noted for their "human rights violations". Clearly there's a need to closely examine things here in the U.S.
Um, and he was here, right?
What, do I really need to spell it out for you?
I once endured a "Contemporary American Society" class taught by an Iranian immigrant, about how awful the U.S. was. I notice he was here too...
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What's all this "in Soviet Russia" crap?
Why not use the same idea to find missing children?
Well, it's not exactly a banner, but check out the redish button:
http://www.michigan.gov/fia
Review spam campaigns like the Rush Limbaugh-led attack on Michael Moore's book are rare.
Rush Limbaugh has never led a spam campaign. You may not like him, but there's no point spreading lies.
I'm thirty-(mumble) and married, etc. My parents recently gave me three garbage bags full of old cassette tapes that I'd left at their house aeons ago.
Among the gems, a tape of some favorite LPs! But for a crackle or two, "perfect", er, analog copies :) (Actually, only one crackle that my ear could detect. The copies are perfect from my point of view)
They were albums that a high school friend had owned. I think the bands in question withstood my "piracy" and survived for years. Certainly the record companies in question did ;)
... to say "all browsers have bugs! Therefore IE is no worse than other browsers!"
People seem to keep chanting that like a mantra. That's as stupid as saying "some old grannys are murderers, so young men are no more dangerous than old grannys!"
Once the warm feeling of tolerence and equality has worn off, you gain nothing. Oh well, all browsers are equally insecure, so I'll just use any old browser. Which is stupid; clearly IE is more insecure. It has more bugs and more security holes. Saying warm fuzzy sounding things gives you no tools for choosing which browser to use.
An excerpt from the pilot: Crais is the captain of a command carrier ship belonging to a military empire known as Peacekeepers. Peacekeepers are an oppressive, human-like species known for keeping "peace" and "stability" with the use of brutality and military cunning. One of their jobs is the assassination and imprisonment of political dissidents and trouble makers.
Hmm... haven't I seen this somewhere else recently...
No, you're thinking of the plot where the crazed billionaire loser convinces a bunch of young poor religious fanatic losers to be suicidal mass murderers, while he hides in the far reaches of the galaxy ....
Easy mistake to make though.
Walmart is the beginning of the end of American Middle Class.
Bull*. The Meijer chain in Michigan and Ohio has been around (in that region at least) a lot longer than Wal-Mart. Until Wal-Mart started adding some food, Meijer was even more of the giant superstore where you could buy everything, usually for less than smaller stores, than Wal-Mart is. Actually, they still have Wal-Mart beat on selection (a real, complete, grocery store in addition to a full department store all in one building) though Wal-Mart beats them a little on price.
Anyway, they've been around for many decades. We still have a middle class around here. Everything is fine. Get a grip.
Those of you bashing the GIMP ... what, exactly, do you think that it is missing? Do you really know that what you need is missing, or have you just not bothered to look in the menus?
I can't help but wonder if this is one of those "it doesn't look exactly like my old stuff, so I hate it" syndrome. I *love* the GIMP interface. Get the damn menus out of my way unless I want them.
"Opening Night", huh? It's been playing around here (Edinburgh) since last Thursday/Friday... Must be hard for you Yanks to lag behind!
Er, not really. Those of us "Yanks" with lives and wives will probably rent it in a few months for the price of a candy bar.
These people don't play CDs with just a high end CD player, you'll find they use what is called a CD "transport" which is a CD player with a digital out. For a nice one, a few grand at least, ranging up to five figures for these things. Then you need to feed this wonderfully accurate string of 0's and 1's into a DAC. Not just the crappy DACs in your receiver of sound card, these DAC units are generally made to match the CD transport and will probably cost somewhere between half and double the cost of the transport itself. Then, with your thousand dollar interconnect cables (a pair of RCA plugs, for example, but you'll find preference towards 'balanced' connectors), they'll connect it to a preamplifier and then into a power amp, which may be a set of monoblocks (one power amp per speaker, sometimes they bi-amp them, too!). Then you've got the speaker cables and speakers
How do they mount all this stuff inside the cardboard boxes they must live in?
Actually, ssh with the right switch can be a SOCKS proxy all by itself; no squid required.
'Course my /. threshold is high. Maybe someone already pointed that out.
Lifestreams orders information by date - imagine that you remember writing a memo just before Easter vacation this year. Then, you would scan documents created around that time period, and hopefully find it in a few seconds
If I really want to, I can already do that. Sure it's not as easy, but that's not how I normally find things anyway. It's much more likely that I'll want a document about taxes, filed under a tax directory, or a personal letter, filed under somthing similarly appropriate.
That's generally how it works in the off line world as well; we sort things, compartmentalize them, etc. I look for food in the pantry; I don't just sniff and walk around. Searching is a great backup, but it makes a silly primary mechanism.
Mozilla is my main mail client now, on Windows XP, and that never happens to me. Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe there is some other issue at work here, but I thought I'd share that.
... and of course, euro-slashbots, who think there is any need for electronic voting in the US, or in fact think there is a technical problem at all.
There isn't. US jurisdictions use and have used a variety of methods, but most commonly a punch card counted by machine, and there is nothing wrong with this method. It works fine.
The supposed "problem" was an attempt to overturn the results of an election. The media and the lawerly clas were fully on board, but it didn't work. It almost worked, though, so they're going to keep trying.
Trouble is, euro-slashbots only get to see what is in the media. So they (because it is in their interest) sneer and agree with the talking heads. Only the media and a tiny hardcore group of Democrats actually nurse the belief that election "irregularities" benefited Bush. I think we all know who the dead people and the non-citizens voted for, and it sure as hell wasn't Bush.
5. (This part will sound obvious to most people familiar with democracy, but americans may find it surprising) The candidate with the most votes wins.
Har har. And in countries of any size, where a true federation makes sense, the candidate with the most votes in a region wins an elector. Which is what happened. Bush won the most votes in Florida, no matter how many times Democrat canvassing boards got all metaphysical and postmodern with scrutinizing ballots. By the way, those are your "people" who would be counting the pen marks in the boxes. Yeah, that would be better, I guess, if you are the cheater.
The quality of life there was unmatched by anything I have found in the Bay Area (where I live now), even though I made a fraction then of what I make now. The sad thing is that most Americans don't realize how poor the quality of life in America actually is. (In case you are wondering why I didn't stay there--it's because my friends, family, and job are here.)
I just don't know what to say about the intellectual capacity of someone who judges the quality of life in the US by looking at the Bay area.
If you don't like the Bay area, why don't you check out the other 99.9999% of the country?
Billyuns of dollars are being lost, and are probably being used to fund terrorism!
Er, the story is about Panama, isn't it? Please try to keep /. reflexive US-bashing in check. Thank you ;)
The verdict: the U.S. system might be the worst of the lot.
Shocking! And here I clicked on a Slashdot story thinking I would find that the US was the best of the lot! This is so unexpected!!
;)
They haven't been communist for a long time now. Their economy is a mix between capitalism and communism. There are both private corporations and government communist corporations
Depends on what you mean. There are two common meanings for "communism"; a system of government, and an economic arrangement. They are of course intertwined. Communist apologists benefit from the confusion.
China is a brutal dictatorship. It is not a democracy. Government owns many companies, and can crush the rest at a whim. It can and does "nationalize" companies that it didn't own before, when it wants to.
That's nice that they allow more private ownership and enterprise now. It would be nicer if there was a political structure and a culture that would prevent that from being swept away at a whim (or selectively crushed if one person or company "gets out of line").
Not that! Not the third overnight Sundays-with-a-full-moon block of yadda-yadda oddly-Western-looking-character Japanese cartoons! AGGH!
Oh, wait, I have a life.
You, however, may resume panic ... ;)
They are just utilizing a method for submitting data that the site owners themselves have provided. I don't see any reason to call this 'spam' since the site owners are inviting users to submit data through HTTP referral headers.
By this logic, isn't anyone with an email address inviting any and all to send them email? How does that distinguish it from spam?
"By not building a fence aroud your entire yard, you are inviting dogs to come use it as a toilet". Not if I'm home and I have my garden hose hooked up ... ;)
MI - state representative Paul DeWeese (running for state senate) spammed a list of state email addresses, with a message about how he stands with state employees, shares their outrage at the overuse of contractors, etc. and how he'll continue to work to have more of them, and less of contractors. A blatent political ad.
What he didn't realize it that many contractors have state email addresses. At my workplace, many, many contractors got this email. I don't think it had the effect he was hoping for! ;)
oh wait -- that's what WE do, complaining that we DO have the rights they tell us we don't have, without actually leaving our own country ... hmmmm ... makes you think? probably not.
I'd bet quite a bit ... that I am more widely travelled than you. Not a boast, just a very good guess. Hey, you brought it up.
My Russian Professor in college used to regularly speak about how here we pretended to have freedom but had none while in the Soviet Union they had very little freedom but what there was was all REAL freedom. I've heard very similar comments from immigrants from countries noted for their "human rights violations". Clearly there's a need to closely examine things here in the U.S.
Um, and he was here, right?
What, do I really need to spell it out for you?
I once endured a "Contemporary American Society" class taught by an Iranian immigrant, about how awful the U.S. was. I notice he was here too ...
... bacteria use 99% of the Earth's surface for, er, bacterial purposes ...
why do americans not like/use minidisc players?
Hmm ... could it be because they suck?
Nah, it must be because we are quaint and technologically backward. It's true; I read it on /.!