This "constant updating of results as you type" makes my Hotel dialup connection run even MORE slowly than it did before.
Why can't these web developers get into their heads that not everyone has a 1 megabit pipe? (Or if it is available, don't want to spend ~$60/month to get it.)
>>>Everyone's known for years that guys who dance like they're a frog in a blender don't make the cut.
Or women. A girl flailing her arms or legs is not as sexy as a girl standing still and just gyrating her hips. Apparently what men and women find attractive in dancing is basically the same.
>>>Uh.. heavier objects do fall faster (as they exert a gravitational pull of their own which will give them a very very very slight increase in acceleration over a lighter object when both are falling towards earth -
OMG.
I didn't think slashdotters could be so stupid. The acceleration of gravity is "g". Period. It is not "g" times the weight of the object. The weight is irrelvant.
Go repeat PHY101 because you need it. Or just watch the moon video where an Astronaut drops a feather and a ball. Both fall at the same rate and hit at the same instant.
I'm not convinced the EU did this for good reasons, or for their OWN corporate overlords (like they did when they sued Microsoft in order to protect the EU-based Opera). Recall that the EU corporations would actually be damaged by ACTA, which primarily exists to protect the US TV/music industry. So naturally the EU corporations would oppose its passage, and press the MEPs to oppose it too.
This is EU corporations fighting back against US corporate protectionism.
I only upgraded to Lightweight Ubuntu (lubuntu) 10.0 a few days ago.
Man Ubuntu's cycle runs fast if they are already releasing another version. Is there any particular advantage to having a new OS every half-year (versus Apple's two year cycle or Microsoft's 3-4 year cycle)? .
I love ho politicians "mission creep" these things. What is the reason Census was invented? So that Representatives in the House could be assigned by population. The End. There is no need to record my sex, my preferred orientation, my kids names, how many dogs I own, my income, or track me with a GPS in order to accomplish the above task. The count doesn't even need to be accurate. An error of +/- 1 person per district will not dramatically effect the representation in the House. Your voice will still be represented.
When I received the Census form, I answered one question and one question only: How many people live here? That is all they need to make sure I have my voice heard in the US Congress. Anything else is pure nosiness. Politicians are like that gossipy neighbor that spies on everything you do, but on the national scale.
There's porn, and then then there's art (professional photography). I pay for at least one site simply because it's quality is better than the free stuff. .
Funny how we had internet before porn. The internet existed first (pure text), and porn didn't join the party until the mid-90s when the graphical web was taking off. .
I bet that's why the movie failed at the box office. People saw it, thought 'this isn't that great', and stayed home. If it had been something people wanted to see like Avatar or Harry Potter, the early leak would not have mattered. People would have been willing to pay to see it a second time on the big screen, or on a high-quality DVD/bluray release.
Per usual the creator is pointing the finger at everyone else, but not himself - the general population just didn't like it Bud. .
"Remember the 90s? So do we! Here's your chance to play a brand-new game, but was originally created in 1997! Woooo!" (music plays) Party like it's 1999.....
>>>That's the part about Colbert I always found so awesome...through parody, he speaks more truth than those with a "serious" agenda.
Well at least his version of the truth. He (and folks like him) remind me of the people living next to Mount Vesuvius. They knew the mountain was rumbling and spewing ash, but continued their day-to-day routines right up to the point where it buried them.
Right now the country is so far in debt, it's doubtful we'll ever be able to pay it back, but Colbert and others continue to tell us all that nothing's wrong. The American Republic is about where the Roman Republic was in 450 A.D. - which experienced financial collapse just a quarter century later. Couldn't even raise an army to defend itself.
Perfect for capturing the Sorority girls in the next dorm over that turn-off the lights, but never close the curtains. "No honey I can't see you, but my camera can."
In a previous message you said: >>>The Internet has not reached everyone (we're at about 77% penetration to date), nor do I expect it ever will unless it becomes free, as television broadcasts were initially.
TV hasn't reached everyone yet either, although it's close. TV reaches 98% of all US homes according to Nielsen's coverage figures and internet penetration into homes is above 90% (about equal to a network like CW or MyNetTV). As for "free" yes there are internet services like NetZero and Juno that offer free access to anyone who wants it. .
>>>What for? For $400, the things you could do or buy... and you'd spend it watching the TV?
Or just buy TV on DVD. $400 will rent you several season sets of your favorite shows, and still leave money left over to buy a month's worth of food. Buying cable makes no sense. .
>>>Go to the net, there it is, free, legal, etc
Comcast, Cox, Time-Warner, and others are already working to seal this loophole. They don't want you watch CATV shows for free online, so they are negotiating with cable channels to look the episodes behind walls. You will only get to see the online reruns if you have a Comcast, Cox, etc subscriber number. This plan was supposed to be implemented in Fall 2009 but hey delayed iit to Fall 2010 instead.
>>>There are millions (and I mean millions) of cable subscribers in apartment building that cannot have 'free' TV of any quality. Rabbit ears != decent reception
Boy you are soooo wrong. Rabbit ears work just fine within a 20 mile radius of the station, and will provide a near-perfect digital image. For apartments located further away, you can get a larger antenna like the CM4228 and set it next to the TV (or on the balcony). That's what I did in my old apartment and got stations upto 60 miles distance. Totally free TV while the neighbors were paying $60/month
>>>There are millions (and I mean millions) of cable subscribers in apartment building that cannot have 'free' TV of any quality. Rabbit ears != decent reception
Boy you are soooo wrong. Rabbit ears + UHF loop work just fine within a 20 mile radius of the station, as my parents can attest. That combo will provide a near-perfect digital image. For apartments located further away, you can get a large antenna like the CM4228 and set it next to the TV (or the balcony). That's what I did in my old apartment and got stations upto 60 miles distance.
"The Bones episode seemed more like a slideshow when viewed on the Android," read the article. What a coincidence! It looks the same way on my Pentium 4 desktop. My G5 PowerPC Mac has similar slide-like qualities when viewing syfy.com. Flash is one of those programs that suffer from bloat and therefore run slowly on older CPUs.
Not that HTML5 is any better. I tried to run a new "test" movie that Google created with HTML5, and it too ran like a snail.
The fact your well-reasoned, well-written, and logical post was marked "trolll" is proof positive that the Slashdot mods are asses (and the system is broke).
The anti-religious bigotry in this thread is disgusting. Are you members of a KKK splinter group that desires to castrate and lynch nuns, imams, and other religious persons? As was done to blacks? Fucking intolerant bigots.
I would mod your post +1 insightful if I had the ability. I don't agree with all the points of your post but enjoyed it nonetheless.
>>>The paper money depreciates over time ONLY if the available supply of printed paper increases
Which is what the central bank has done. There's now approximately one hundred times more paper dollars than existed in the 1920s. Therefore it devalued. Do you know how the US Congress bailed-out AIG and other megacorps? They simply added a few zeros to AIG's account at the private central bank (aka the Fed).
They made money out of thin air, and that automatically devalued ALL the existing paper dollars. Of course it will take 2-3 few years for that effect to trickle-down to us consumers, but it will eventually be visible as our private stashed of paper lose value. (i.e. You won't be able to buy a week's worth of food with only one hundred pieces of paper anymore.)
>>>Between 1914 and 2000 the price of 250g of cheddar cheese increased from 2 pence to 126 pence in the United Kingdom, an increase of 53 fold. Cross correlating that with white sliced bread, where the price for 800g rose form 1 pence to 52 pence, shows that a multiplier of ~50 is reasonable. >>>
And with half-an-ounce of gold, you could have bought a year's supply of cheese, whether it was 1914 or 2000. Gold and other rare materials (silver, diamonds) hold their value. Paper does not. Paper devalues as the bank runs off more of it.
>>>The wool suit did change. It is more comfortable, better made...
Many people would dispute that, and say clothing quality has gone downhill since the 1920s. Not that it matters - the point is a gold dollar in the 1920s and 2010s will buy equal amounts of goods. Gold (and silver and diamonds and other rare items) hold their value over the long term.
A paper dollar will not. The central bank has printed one hundred times more of them since the 20s, so each one dollar paper will only buy 1/100th as many goods as it used to.
>>>It's not the paper that depreciates, its the actual value of a dollar that depreciates.
Depends what kind of "dollar" you're talking about. A gold dollar (a measurement of weight) has the same value today as it had in the 1920s - it will still buy you 2 wool suits. Gold and other "real" goods hold value over time. Paper does not (unless the supply is strictly held constant).
So if I don't conform to the Consumerist society, and instead to save money by only buying two cellphones over ~15 years time, that makes me "strange". I see.....
Did I just step into that movie THX-1138, where people buy stuff just to buy stuff, even when it's illogical to so do?
Here is what the mods marked -1 flamebait. I don't know why they felt the need to CENSOR me. I was being 100% serious:
Yes surely there's a better way to deal with trash.
Couldn't I just feed it to the wildlife in the backyard? - Or maybe use it for heating my house this winter, instead of burning-up more electricity (coal).
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This "constant updating of results as you type" makes my Hotel dialup connection run even MORE slowly than it did before.
Why can't these web developers get into their heads that not everyone has a 1 megabit pipe? (Or if it is available, don't want to spend ~$60/month to get it.)
>>>Everyone's known for years that guys who dance like they're a frog in a blender don't make the cut.
Or women. A girl flailing her arms or legs is not as sexy as a girl standing still and just gyrating her hips. Apparently what men and women find attractive in dancing is basically the same.
>>>Uh.. heavier objects do fall faster (as they exert a gravitational pull of their own which will give them a very very very slight increase in acceleration over a lighter object when both are falling towards earth -
OMG.
I didn't think slashdotters could be so stupid. The acceleration of gravity is "g". Period. It is not "g" times the weight of the object. The weight is irrelvant.
Go repeat PHY101 because you need it. Or just watch the moon video where an Astronaut drops a feather and a ball. Both fall at the same rate and hit at the same instant.
I'm not convinced the EU did this for good reasons, or for their OWN corporate overlords (like they did when they sued Microsoft in order to protect the EU-based Opera). Recall that the EU corporations would actually be damaged by ACTA, which primarily exists to protect the US TV/music industry. So naturally the EU corporations would oppose its passage, and press the MEPs to oppose it too.
This is EU corporations fighting back against US corporate protectionism.
Then again, perhaps I'm just too cynical.
And how do you fix it just using a mouse?
I only upgraded to Lightweight Ubuntu (lubuntu) 10.0 a few days ago.
Man Ubuntu's cycle runs fast if they are already releasing another version. Is there any particular advantage to having a new OS every half-year (versus Apple's two year cycle or Microsoft's 3-4 year cycle)?
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I love ho politicians "mission creep" these things. What is the reason Census was invented? So that Representatives in the House could be assigned by population. The End. There is no need to record my sex, my preferred orientation, my kids names, how many dogs I own, my income, or track me with a GPS in order to accomplish the above task. The count doesn't even need to be accurate. An error of +/- 1 person per district will not dramatically effect the representation in the House. Your voice will still be represented.
When I received the Census form, I answered one question and one question only: How many people live here? That is all they need to make sure I have my voice heard in the US Congress. Anything else is pure nosiness. Politicians are like that gossipy neighbor that spies on everything you do, but on the national scale.
There's porn, and then then there's art (professional photography). I pay for at least one site simply because it's quality is better than the free stuff.
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Funny how we had internet before porn. The internet existed first (pure text), and porn didn't join the party until the mid-90s when the graphical web was taking off.
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Ditto.
I bet that's why the movie failed at the box office. People saw it, thought 'this isn't that great', and stayed home. If it had been something people wanted to see like Avatar or Harry Potter, the early leak would not have mattered. People would have been willing to pay to see it a second time on the big screen, or on a high-quality DVD/bluray release.
Per usual the creator is pointing the finger at everyone else, but not himself - the general population just didn't like it Bud.
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Maybe the can sell it as a retro-90s piece.
"Remember the 90s? So do we! Here's your chance to play a brand-new game, but was originally created in 1997! Woooo!" (music plays) Party like it's 1999.....
>>>That's the part about Colbert I always found so awesome...through parody, he speaks more truth than those with a "serious" agenda.
Well at least his version of the truth. He (and folks like him) remind me of the people living next to Mount Vesuvius. They knew the mountain was rumbling and spewing ash, but continued their day-to-day routines right up to the point where it buried them.
Right now the country is so far in debt, it's doubtful we'll ever be able to pay it back, but Colbert and others continue to tell us all that nothing's wrong. The American Republic is about where the Roman Republic was in 450 A.D. - which experienced financial collapse just a quarter century later. Couldn't even raise an army to defend itself.
Perfect for capturing the Sorority girls in the next dorm over that turn-off the lights, but never close the curtains. "No honey I can't see you, but my camera can."
In a previous message you said:
>>>The Internet has not reached everyone (we're at about 77% penetration to date), nor do I expect it ever will unless it becomes free, as television broadcasts were initially.
TV hasn't reached everyone yet either, although it's close. TV reaches 98% of all US homes according to Nielsen's coverage figures and internet penetration into homes is above 90% (about equal to a network like CW or MyNetTV). As for "free" yes there are internet services like NetZero and Juno that offer free access to anyone who wants it.
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>>>What for? For $400, the things you could do or buy... and you'd spend it watching the TV?
Or just buy TV on DVD. $400 will rent you several season sets of your favorite shows, and still leave money left over to buy a month's worth of food. Buying cable makes no sense.
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>>>Go to the net, there it is, free, legal, etc
Comcast, Cox, Time-Warner, and others are already working to seal this loophole. They don't want you watch CATV shows for free online, so they are negotiating with cable channels to look the episodes behind walls. You will only get to see the online reruns if you have a Comcast, Cox, etc subscriber number. This plan was supposed to be implemented in Fall 2009 but hey delayed iit to Fall 2010 instead.
>>>There are millions (and I mean millions) of cable subscribers in apartment building that cannot have 'free' TV of any quality. Rabbit ears != decent reception
Boy you are soooo wrong. Rabbit ears work just fine within a 20 mile radius of the station, and will provide a near-perfect digital image. For apartments located further away, you can get a larger antenna like the CM4228 and set it next to the TV (or on the balcony). That's what I did in my old apartment and got stations upto 60 miles distance. Totally free TV while the neighbors were paying $60/month
>>>There are millions (and I mean millions) of cable subscribers in apartment building that cannot have 'free' TV of any quality. Rabbit ears != decent reception
Boy you are soooo wrong. Rabbit ears + UHF loop work just fine within a 20 mile radius of the station, as my parents can attest. That combo will provide a near-perfect digital image. For apartments located further away, you can get a large antenna like the CM4228 and set it next to the TV (or the balcony). That's what I did in my old apartment and got stations upto 60 miles distance.
You got that right.
"The Bones episode seemed more like a slideshow when viewed on the Android," read the article. What a coincidence! It looks the same way on my Pentium 4 desktop. My G5 PowerPC Mac has similar slide-like qualities when viewing syfy.com. Flash is one of those programs that suffer from bloat and therefore run slowly on older CPUs.
Not that HTML5 is any better. I tried to run a new "test" movie that Google created with HTML5, and it too ran like a snail.
The fact your well-reasoned, well-written, and logical post was marked "trolll" is proof positive that the Slashdot mods are asses (and the system is broke).
The anti-religious bigotry in this thread is disgusting. Are you members of a KKK splinter group that desires to castrate and lynch nuns, imams, and other religious persons? As was done to blacks? Fucking intolerant bigots.
I would mod your post +1 insightful if I had the ability. I don't agree with all the points of your post but enjoyed it nonetheless.
>>>The paper money depreciates over time ONLY if the available supply of printed paper increases
Which is what the central bank has done. There's now approximately one hundred times more paper dollars than existed in the 1920s. Therefore it devalued. Do you know how the US Congress bailed-out AIG and other megacorps? They simply added a few zeros to AIG's account at the private central bank (aka the Fed).
They made money out of thin air, and that automatically devalued ALL the existing paper dollars. Of course it will take 2-3 few years for that effect to trickle-down to us consumers, but it will eventually be visible as our private stashed of paper lose value. (i.e. You won't be able to buy a week's worth of food with only one hundred pieces of paper anymore.)
>>>Between 1914 and 2000 the price of 250g of cheddar cheese increased from 2 pence to 126 pence in the United Kingdom, an increase of 53 fold. Cross correlating that with white sliced bread, where the price for 800g rose form 1 pence to 52 pence, shows that a multiplier of ~50 is reasonable.
>>>
And with half-an-ounce of gold, you could have bought a year's supply of cheese, whether it was 1914 or 2000. Gold and other rare materials (silver, diamonds) hold their value. Paper does not. Paper devalues as the bank runs off more of it.
>>>The wool suit did change. It is more comfortable, better made...
Many people would dispute that, and say clothing quality has gone downhill since the 1920s. Not that it matters - the point is a gold dollar in the 1920s and 2010s will buy equal amounts of goods. Gold (and silver and diamonds and other rare items) hold their value over the long term.
A paper dollar will not. The central bank has printed one hundred times more of them since the 20s, so each one dollar paper will only buy 1/100th as many goods as it used to.
>>>It's not the paper that depreciates, its the actual value of a dollar that depreciates.
Depends what kind of "dollar" you're talking about. A gold dollar (a measurement of weight) has the same value today as it had in the 1920s - it will still buy you 2 wool suits. Gold and other "real" goods hold value over time. Paper does not (unless the supply is strictly held constant).
So if I don't conform to the Consumerist society, and instead to save money by only buying two cellphones over ~15 years time, that makes me "strange". I see.....
Did I just step into that movie THX-1138, where people buy stuff just to buy stuff, even when it's illogical to so do?
No shit sherlock. ;-)
Here is what the mods marked -1 flamebait. I don't know why they felt the need to CENSOR me. I was being 100% serious:
Yes surely there's a better way to deal with trash.
Couldn't I just feed it to the wildlife in the backyard? - Or maybe use it for heating my house this winter, instead of burning-up more electricity (coal).