The iRiver is the only device in the review list that supports.ogg files. Since it has longer battery life, is smaller and cheaper than the ipod mini, I'm going to shelve my mini and get the iRiver.
The only positives of the mini are sound quality and storage capacity. I'm glad I've got the in-ear headphones, and will continue to use them!
Wage-slavery will always be a race to the bottom, to see who can undercut the poorest nation in the world, but entrepreneurialism creates new jobs, new opportunities, new wealth. If you don't want to compete with the wage scales of Zimbabwe or Mongolia, you're not going to want to do commoditizable labor. Instead, rely on your capacity for invention and your marketing savvy (or ability to organize the invention and/or marketing savvy of others) to create new lines of business.
Agreed; but you miss the mark in accepting the notion that backporting 2.6 features to 2.4 doesn't help the community. In fact it does help the community. Those patches are all released under the GPL.
AES probably won't be cracked any time soon. It's greatest practical vulnerability is from the emergence of quantum computation, and presumably the importance of your network traffic is not sufficiently long-lived so that it is worthwhile for anyone to archive the bits until QC decryption is practical.
What IS vulnerable in such a system is key management, and platform integrity. To help insure platform integrity, use open-source software via an in-house or trusted and certified build. Key management policies have to be designed to fit the use-cases, so I won't venture any advice about that.
Built a little catapult that is wound back by a stepper, and tosses a metal ball into a catcher. The catcher runs a generator. Now all you need is an infinite supply of metal balls.
Okay, no metals balls? Use one of atmospheric gas molecules, alpha particles, or photons.
(1) Atmospheric gases: Use a motor on the power source to drive a fan. Use a fan on the power sink to drive a generator.
(2) Alpha particles: Nevermind. This is a non-starter unless you can do thermionic power.
(3) Photons laser on the power source, PV on the power sink.
A perverse and irrelevant analogy is always a powerful rhetorical device for deluding your readers, so, congratulations.
There is NO USEFUL ANALOGY between the use of physical locks and the use of DRM in iTunes. The purpose of DRM is to rob the public domain for personal gain. The purpose of a padlock is to protect personal property from public depredations. They are OPPOSITES.
Bullshit. Have you done hard time for civil disobedience actions? I have. And I appreciate with great thanks all those who joined me in disobedience, but did so quietly, without great sacrifice. In many ways their moral courage is greater than my own.
The whole point of peaceful civil disobedience is that disobedience to an unjust law is a defense of its innocent victims. I want EVERYONE to disobey the diktats of hell, not just those who are willing to lay down their lives. It's not about how Ghandi-like you can posture. It's about stopping the injustice.
JSP is horrible because it is designed to produce badly designed code. Bad design, by design. You see, in JSP the crucial, central aspects of presentation and business logic tend to become increasingly intertwined, because there is Java code implementing business logic intertwingled with your presentation HTML, and vice versa contrariwise. This is not a happy peanut butter cup land.
PHP and ASP have the same problem. PHP is actually even worse, because, although there are template engines for PHP, they lead to spaghetti objects, where a single aspect is smeared over umpty-booty-teen different class files. Good luck maintaining that when the project grows past 10kloc! (I won't even BEGIN to address the death-march misery that is ASP.NET.)
Struts, Velocity, and JSF together make a beautiful system, in which the classic MVC patterns apply, aspects are colocated, and presentation is sharply segrated from business logic. Now that, my friend, is a real step ahead of the competition. Websphere is the only commercial environment that really supports this stuff right now, although I expect WebLogic to catch up soon. The Dreamweaver support is velly intelesting to me as well.
Um, no. Actually, you're right and I'm wrong. The markets are identical and the organization resources marshalled to exploit those markets are similarly identical.
Okay, I'm being sarcastic. I admit it.
You have a good point that franchises work in both markets, and organizations use that in both markets. However, I think that my underlying point remains well-justified by the body of games. The chances that any given console game made in japan is an innovative departure from the then-current formulae seem to be much better than the same chances for a European or American title.
Anecdotes that don't prove anything include Harvest Moon, Parappa, DDR, Pilot Wings, StarFox, Ikaruga, Super Mario Bros 1,2 & 3, Sonic 1 & 2, and Chaotix. There's a quirk-factor here that you just don't see on such a scale in, ahem, Daikatana, Neverwinter, Myst, Quake, GTA, Tony Hawk, etc. ad nauseam.
(1) Take the engine out of the Jetta. You probably want to remove the hood since the Deere engine won't fit very well with the hood on.
(2) Put the deere engine into the engine compartment of the Jetta. Points to observe here include (a) make sure to align the PTO of the Deere with the transmission connector. (b) If they don't match as is likely, you can wedge a bolt or two into the gap, so that they interlock. No hammer? I bet you can find a rock. Just whack on it with a rock until the bolt(s) are truly wedged. If the Deere PTO is too big, rather than too small, rub it with a rock until it is too small.
(3) Strap the engine firmly into place. Hook up the fuel line and ignition electronics. Fuel line is trivial, with some rubber tubing, but for ignition electronics you have to match the wires. I suggest just connecting all the red outputs to the red input, black to black, etc. Or else read a book. As for strapping, some old belts or a dog chain you aren't using can do wonders.
(4) Be prepared for some mild vibration when you start the engine. Some rubber to use for shims can be helpful here. The upside is that if the vibration is strong enough, even without a good connection to the transmission, the Jetta is light enough so that it will move around just due to brownian motion.
(5) You're ready to do some travelin'!
I replaced the pedal assembly on my BMX bike with a pulse-jet in about 2 hours. linky linky. But I want to try a DK8 when I can find a cigar box full of rusty bolts. Anyhow, I'm sure you can do the Deere in half that time, as long as no rock-rubbing is required.
Well, it's not like VOIP takes up any more bandwidth than PSTN. If I'm calling you on a VOIP phone, I'm *not* calling you on a PSTN phone. The difference in backbone traffic on the fiber is negligible, but the difference to my wallet is significant.
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Choice is all about choice.
Linux is all about Linux.
XUL is all about delivering cross-platform apps
rapidly. It isn't about Linux. Nor is it about
choice.
It continues to work great even with clewless
lusers, if the nerds get their butts in gear and
make using GPG transparent and default.
The iRiver is the only device in the review list .ogg files. Since it has longer
that supports
battery life, is smaller and cheaper than the ipod
mini, I'm going to shelve my mini and get the iRiver.
The only positives of the mini are sound quality
and storage capacity. I'm glad I've got the
in-ear headphones, and will continue to use them!
I have *never* recieved a spam email which was
encrypted with my public key.
If GPG shipped with every email app out of the box,
there would be no spam. It's free, it's here now.
I will not read your unencrypted email.
Wage-slavery will always be a race to the bottom, to see who can undercut the poorest nation in the world, but entrepreneurialism creates new jobs, new opportunities, new wealth. If you don't want to compete with the wage scales of Zimbabwe or Mongolia, you're not going to want to do commoditizable labor. Instead, rely on your capacity for invention and your marketing savvy (or ability to organize the invention and/or marketing savvy of others) to create new lines of business.
Agreed; but you miss the mark in accepting the
notion that backporting 2.6 features to 2.4 doesn't help the community. In fact it does help the community. Those patches are all released under the GPL.
AES probably won't be cracked any time soon. It's greatest practical vulnerability is from the emergence of quantum computation, and presumably the importance of your network traffic is not sufficiently long-lived so that it is worthwhile for anyone to archive the bits until QC decryption is practical.
What IS vulnerable in such a system is key management, and platform integrity. To help insure platform integrity, use open-source software via an in-house or trusted and certified build. Key management policies have to be designed to fit the use-cases, so I won't venture any advice about that.
Built a little catapult that is wound back by a stepper, and tosses a metal ball into a catcher.
The catcher runs a generator. Now all you need is
an infinite supply of metal balls.
Okay, no metals balls? Use one of atmospheric gas
molecules, alpha particles, or photons.
(1) Atmospheric gases: Use a motor on the power
source to drive a fan. Use a fan on the power sink
to drive a generator.
(2) Alpha particles: Nevermind. This is a non-starter unless you can do thermionic power.
(3) Photons laser on the power source, PV on the
power sink.
Nah, it would be like marrying just one of the Olsen
twins, 'cos you've only got one bed.
I used the webapp version. No headaches. No bloody Windows. Cheaper than a retail box, with more
functionality too.
Violating EULAs is an ethical imperative.
Doing it on camera is a business model.
Your failure to choke on a chicken bone is depriving me of my revenue stream as an EMT.
A perverse and irrelevant analogy is always a
powerful rhetorical device for deluding your readers, so, congratulations.
There is NO USEFUL ANALOGY between the use of physical locks and the use of DRM in iTunes.
The purpose of DRM is to rob the public domain
for personal gain. The purpose of a padlock is
to protect personal property from public depredations. They are OPPOSITES.
Bullshit. Have you done hard time for civil disobedience actions? I have. And I appreciate with great thanks all those who joined me in disobedience, but did so quietly, without great sacrifice. In many ways their moral courage is greater than my own.
The whole point of peaceful civil disobedience is that disobedience to an unjust law is a defense of its innocent victims. I want EVERYONE to disobey the diktats of hell, not just those who are willing to lay down their lives. It's not about how Ghandi-like you can posture. It's about stopping the injustice.
Actually, I'm an arrogant ignoramus who blows gas, so clearly it is impossible to refute me with mere facts.
"Blessed is he who does not sit in the seat of the mocker"
-- Psalms (David haMelech)
Thermodynamic anarchy! It's what's for dinner!
What will come next, dogs mating with cats?!?!
JSP is horrible because it is designed to produce badly designed code. Bad design, by design. You see, in JSP the crucial, central aspects of presentation and business logic tend to become increasingly intertwined, because there is Java code
implementing business logic intertwingled with your presentation HTML, and vice versa contrariwise.
This is not a happy peanut butter cup land.
PHP and ASP have the same problem. PHP is actually even worse, because, although there are template engines for PHP, they lead to spaghetti objects, where a single aspect is smeared over umpty-booty-teen different class files. Good luck maintaining that when the project grows past 10kloc! (I won't even BEGIN to address the death-march misery that is ASP.NET.)
Struts, Velocity, and JSF together make a beautiful system, in which the classic MVC patterns apply, aspects are colocated, and presentation is sharply segrated from business logic. Now that, my friend, is a real step ahead of the competition. Websphere is the only commercial environment that really supports this stuff right now, although I expect WebLogic to catch up soon. The Dreamweaver support is velly intelesting to me as well.
It's a good time to be alive.
Um, no. Actually, you're right and I'm wrong.
The markets are identical and the organization
resources marshalled to exploit those markets are
similarly identical.
Okay, I'm being sarcastic. I admit it.
You have a good point that franchises work in both
markets, and organizations use that in both markets.
However, I think that my underlying point remains
well-justified by the body of games. The chances
that any given console game made in japan is an
innovative departure from the then-current formulae
seem to be much better than the same chances for a
European or American title.
Anecdotes that don't prove anything include
Harvest Moon, Parappa, DDR, Pilot Wings, StarFox,
Ikaruga, Super Mario Bros 1,2 & 3, Sonic 1 & 2, and
Chaotix. There's a quirk-factor here that you just
don't see on such a scale in, ahem, Daikatana,
Neverwinter, Myst, Quake, GTA, Tony Hawk, etc. ad nauseam.
No, actually, I just made that up. So unsurprising ly, it's just wrong.
Sure. No problem.
(1) Take the engine out of the Jetta. You
probably want to remove the hood since the Deere
engine won't fit very well with the hood on.
(2) Put the deere engine into the engine compartment
of the Jetta. Points to observe here include (a)
make sure to align the PTO of the Deere with the
transmission connector. (b) If they don't match
as is likely, you can wedge a bolt or two into the
gap, so that they interlock. No hammer? I bet you
can find a rock. Just whack on it with a rock until
the bolt(s) are truly wedged. If the Deere PTO is
too big, rather than too small, rub it with a rock
until it is too small.
(3) Strap the engine firmly into place. Hook up
the fuel line and ignition electronics. Fuel line
is trivial, with some rubber tubing, but for
ignition electronics you have to match the wires.
I suggest just connecting all the red outputs to
the red input, black to black, etc. Or else read
a book. As for strapping, some old belts or a dog
chain you aren't using can do wonders.
(4) Be prepared for some mild vibration when you
start the engine. Some rubber to use for shims
can be helpful here. The upside is that if the
vibration is strong enough, even without a good
connection to the transmission, the Jetta is
light enough so that it will move around just due
to brownian motion.
(5) You're ready to do some travelin'!
I replaced the pedal assembly on my BMX bike with
a pulse-jet in about 2 hours. linky linky.
But I want to try a DK8
when I can find a cigar box full of rusty bolts.
Anyhow, I'm sure you can do the Deere in half
that time, as long as no rock-rubbing is required.
Good luck!
> Linky linky
Isn't that the teletubbie that Falwell was so het up
about?
Oh no, it was Kinky kinky....
maybe.
Well, it's not like VOIP takes up any more bandwidth
than PSTN. If I'm calling you on a VOIP phone,
I'm *not* calling you on a PSTN phone. The difference
in backbone traffic on the fiber is negligible, but
the difference to my wallet is significant.
When my beautiful, brilliant, charming daughter
was born, I finally realized the meaning of
Hobbes' phrase "nasty, brutish, and short".
Of course she wasn't beautiful at the start.
She was bloody, slimy, and looked like Winston
Churchill. But I'm told they all do.
I think he misspelled "six-sigma".
Oh! Oh! A free APL?!?!
I want it! Quo vadis?