Oppo responded quickly to my e-mail as well...... to tell me that their DVD player "doesn't support closed captioning due to an engineer oversight". They lost the sale.
I just saved a lot of money (not on car insurance!) by spending about $60 on this Samsung, since I was in the market for a DVD player and Amazon.com had several refurbs available for a good price.
Plus, I have actually heard of Samsung, while I've never heard of Oppo... so if this player doesn't work out, so what? I didn't lose much.
Oh, right, let's forget all about the worthy research that it's capable of doing if the government gets off its ass and actually does what it said it would do. Don't blame the programs, blame the fools who destroy them.
1. Not necessarily. If you have to gun it to jump into the other lane, to avoid rear-ending someone who doesn't pay attention to other drivers, they are the same.
2. I did explain the situation. I had hoped that I could for once have a civilized discussion and be able to state that someone did something rude and not get attitude of "Suuuuuuuure, everyone on this planet is a polite, fair person, everyone is beyond reproach, if someone says someone else did something rude, they must be a liar" so at first I left it out for brevity. But I did explain once I realized that I was beating against a thick skull, so once again you have managed to be insulting without outright saying so.
3. What is there to clarify about "Nitpickers aren't liked; here's similar situations in which people who nitpick about every fucking little thing tend to be quickly treated badly because of their negative effect on society"? Do I have to spell it out? Were you the teacher's pet? I guess so, because in your world, there's no such thing as power-hungry assholes, or petty people who abuse authority to treat other people like scum, and in your world the people on the receiving end bend over and just take it.
4. Why should I be having one with you, when you're proving over and over that you, too, treat other people badly and manage to prove my point by being overly bitchy?
Obviously, you forget that your experiences are not mine or anyone else's. Reputations are usually well earned. You've just been lucky to not be in a bad situation. If you want me to bow down to your experiences, you need to respect those of other people.
I am not inconsistent; I just hoped to not have to explain everything to people who choose to treat other people like cheats and liars.
Thanks for confirming my overall opinion of people on the internet as unable to hold a civilized discussion without implying that other people are idiots.
Actually, he was quite polite and quiet, and explained, but still got treated unfairly. So I stand by my claims. You weren't there; I was; I know what happened. If I say the guy was an asshole and part of "why do cops have a bad reputation?" I think I'm a hell of a lot more qualified than you or any other nameless intarweb poster to flap their lips and act like they're all knowing.
So you're scum worthy of being mistreated just because you passed somebody who slammed on their brakes just in front of you as soon as you made your turn onto the street? What was he supposed to do, rear end the guy?
No, he drove in such a way as to avoid a wreck and was treated like an asshole about it. Blame: cop.
I see someone missed the entire damn point, doesn't understand the notion of "it's not appropriate to nitpick over every little thing", and is trying to shift the blame off the person who was the petty one in the first place, just like the poster I responded to.
Or do you spend all your time nitpicking over everything your friends and family do that's even slightly wrong? Bet they don't stay friends long if you do.
Considering that people are getting pulled over for stupid crap that doesn't require cops being assholes about it (the last time I was in a car that was pulled over, it was because the friend who was driving briefly gunned it to pass someone, and the local speed trap cop decided to get some free money from the guy)... I can't blame them. Wouldn't you be angry if you had done something that was minor, in the scheme of things, and somebody called you on it?
People treat others, in general, as appropriate for the situation. If you are an asshole to someone, they will be an asshole to you. If you call them on something, if it is actually worth having the error pointed out, that is one thing, but if you start nitpicking at people over minor bullshit, they will be angry with you.
Solution: Behave appropriately. You'll notice that even small children don't like it when someone in their age group or class is a "tattletale" or otherwise makes mountains over molehills.
You'll discover that it makes a huge difference in how people treat you. Ignore this advice... and you'll find yourself wondering why no one likes you.
Sorry, that page doesn't explain too well. The guy spends real time building avatars and vehicles and sells them for virtual money, which he then uses to buy more virtual items. So... you spend real time slaving away for a virtual life.
Yeah, my declawed one (from when they first came out a while back) outputs in plain text, but it's PS/2. But the fact that you got a USB one to do the same thing gives me hope.
You do have to "declaw" them. I have one that I declawed when they first came out, but it's a PS/2 version. I should look into whether it would work on the Keyspan USB PS/2 Adapter or not, although it would be far easier to save the $20 and find out how to convert a USB CueCat (if the poster I replied to has a USB one, that is, and is willing to send me one) to output plain text.
Or, as someone else said, I could try the Perl script.
Are any of them USB? I wonder if I can get one to scan book ISBNs into standard text format so that I can use my Powerbook (running Tiger) to quickly enter the boxes of books in my garage into paperbackswap.com.
Yeah, sorry about the confusion. My argument comment was really meant for the parent to your post. Arg! Hopefully they'll read it. Anyway, as for the remote-piloting idea:
If they can fly unmanned, why not keep them around? Send them to the ISS, dock them remotely with the Kurs system or a variant of it, have a crew board and get the stuff, then send them home. Of course, I don't think they should be retired at all -- there's missions that big unmanned rockets can't do, or that the return capability is still needed for. If you're that worried about ascent and reentry, launch the crew in another ship and have it dock with the orbiter, then have them go home separately.
While you could build a carry rig, the stress problem still remains, and also the parts aren't designed for delivery that way. The ESA is working on a larger ferry that can carry SOME stuff that can't be hauled by Progress/Soyuz, but it's not ready yet; and some stuff just needs the Shuttle to deliver it, especially the components. The Shuttle is simply unmatched in a number of ways, and this is one of them.
The shuttle was designed to build and resupply a space station. You're arguing that something designed to do its job shouldn't; you're going to find that a stopgap measure is almost always inferior to using something in its intended fashion.
Try again. Stuff that the government thinks is secret really isn't. You really can't keep a secret once you involve more than a small handful of people. Say, more than zero. Whether accidentally or not, the information tends to get out. The length of time it takes does vary, but 40 years is pushing it.
Uh, you don't have to have a manned spacecraft to have a landing site of a spacecraft. The article doesn't say anything about cosmonauts because there were never any on the Moon but there's lots of Luna spacecraft. The first successful soft landing was carried out by Luna 9, actually.
Yet again someone manages to RTFA but doesn't do basic research before opening their mouth and revealing their uninformed state.
Boy, you don't know much about what goes up to the ISS, do you? There's lots of stuff that won't fit on the Progress and Soyuz spacecraft. That's what the MPLM modules are for, carried by Shuttle orbiters -- which also bring up vital components for station construction, along with things like replacement parts that can't be shipped via Progress.
What you suggest just can't be done. Try doing some research next time, huh?
You forget one small but vital thing: You're using the layman's definition of "theory":
When people write that "scientists admit it's just a theory", these guys are using the common definition for the word "theory," i.e. an opinion. The Big Bang, however, is a scientific theory, like evolution, which has scientific data to support it. If there was no data to support it, it would cease to exist to be a theory and scientists would make another to try and better explain their hypothesis.
If, as others have pointed out (all over the freaking place), the evidence did not exist, another hypothesis would be formulated, researched, and become a scientific theory in time as evidence was gathered. Sorry. Evolution and the Big Bang are real. They're still being refined all the time as new evidence comes to light, but they're real.
Slashdot Mirror
Oppo responded quickly to my e-mail as well ... ... to tell me that their DVD player "doesn't support closed captioning due to an engineer oversight". They lost the sale.
... so if this player doesn't work out, so what? I didn't lose much.
I just saved a lot of money (not on car insurance!) by spending about $60 on this Samsung, since I was in the market for a DVD player and Amazon.com had several refurbs available for a good price.
Plus, I have actually heard of Samsung, while I've never heard of Oppo
Oh, right, let's forget all about the worthy research that it's capable of doing if the government gets off its ass and actually does what it said it would do. Don't blame the programs, blame the fools who destroy them.
There are panels missing from both wings; I photographed much of Enterprise while in the museum last month. Here's my closeup shot of this:
DSC_1717
DSC_1716
The tires aren't original; one of my photos of the nose gear revealed the stamp "NOT FOR FLIGHT".
DSC_1751
And yes, that is THE Spacelab module back there!
1. Not necessarily. If you have to gun it to jump into the other lane, to avoid rear-ending someone who doesn't pay attention to other drivers, they are the same.
2. I did explain the situation. I had hoped that I could for once have a civilized discussion and be able to state that someone did something rude and not get attitude of "Suuuuuuuure, everyone on this planet is a polite, fair person, everyone is beyond reproach, if someone says someone else did something rude, they must be a liar" so at first I left it out for brevity. But I did explain once I realized that I was beating against a thick skull, so once again you have managed to be insulting without outright saying so.
3. What is there to clarify about "Nitpickers aren't liked; here's similar situations in which people who nitpick about every fucking little thing tend to be quickly treated badly because of their negative effect on society"? Do I have to spell it out? Were you the teacher's pet? I guess so, because in your world, there's no such thing as power-hungry assholes, or petty people who abuse authority to treat other people like scum, and in your world the people on the receiving end bend over and just take it.
4. Why should I be having one with you, when you're proving over and over that you, too, treat other people badly and manage to prove my point by being overly bitchy?
5. Goodbye.
Obviously, you forget that your experiences are not mine or anyone else's. Reputations are usually well earned. You've just been lucky to not be in a bad situation. If you want me to bow down to your experiences, you need to respect those of other people.
I am not inconsistent; I just hoped to not have to explain everything to people who choose to treat other people like cheats and liars.
Thanks for confirming my overall opinion of people on the internet as unable to hold a civilized discussion without implying that other people are idiots.
Actually, he was quite polite and quiet, and explained, but still got treated unfairly. So I stand by my claims. You weren't there; I was; I know what happened. If I say the guy was an asshole and part of "why do cops have a bad reputation?" I think I'm a hell of a lot more qualified than you or any other nameless intarweb poster to flap their lips and act like they're all knowing.
So you're scum worthy of being mistreated just because you passed somebody who slammed on their brakes just in front of you as soon as you made your turn onto the street? What was he supposed to do, rear end the guy?
No, he drove in such a way as to avoid a wreck and was treated like an asshole about it. Blame: cop.
I see someone missed the entire damn point, doesn't understand the notion of "it's not appropriate to nitpick over every little thing", and is trying to shift the blame off the person who was the petty one in the first place, just like the poster I responded to.
Or do you spend all your time nitpicking over everything your friends and family do that's even slightly wrong? Bet they don't stay friends long if you do.
Considering that people are getting pulled over for stupid crap that doesn't require cops being assholes about it (the last time I was in a car that was pulled over, it was because the friend who was driving briefly gunned it to pass someone, and the local speed trap cop decided to get some free money from the guy) ... I can't blame them. Wouldn't you be angry if you had done something that was minor, in the scheme of things, and somebody called you on it?
... and you'll find yourself wondering why no one likes you.
People treat others, in general, as appropriate for the situation. If you are an asshole to someone, they will be an asshole to you. If you call them on something, if it is actually worth having the error pointed out, that is one thing, but if you start nitpicking at people over minor bullshit, they will be angry with you.
Solution: Behave appropriately. You'll notice that even small children don't like it when someone in their age group or class is a "tattletale" or otherwise makes mountains over molehills.
You'll discover that it makes a huge difference in how people treat you. Ignore this advice
Oh yeah. I forgot about that. People, USE HTML!!! Geez.
I want to see this video, but it doesn't exist:
We're sorry, but this video may not be available.
Try refreshing the page to see this video.
To see more videos visit our home page.
Don't you preview your links before you post?
Cops are people, not ticket-writing machines.
Oh, really? In general, the public's interaction with cops leads to repeated observations that the reverse is true.
Hmm. I wonder how long it will take for people to start farming out things like avatar modelling ...
Sorry, that page doesn't explain too well. The guy spends real time building avatars and vehicles and sells them for virtual money, which he then uses to buy more virtual items. So ... you spend real time slaving away for a virtual life.
And of course right after I post, I finally find a better link:
Wired News: Making a Living in Second Life
(The article also amused me because I attended Grinnell College -- I wonder if any of the developers did).
You can stop waiting right now. (They even sell Daleks!)
Yeah, my declawed one (from when they first came out a while back) outputs in plain text, but it's PS/2. But the fact that you got a USB one to do the same thing gives me hope.
You do have to "declaw" them. I have one that I declawed when they first came out, but it's a PS/2 version. I should look into whether it would work on the Keyspan USB PS/2 Adapter or not, although it would be far easier to save the $20 and find out how to convert a USB CueCat (if the poster I replied to has a USB one, that is, and is willing to send me one) to output plain text.
Or, as someone else said, I could try the Perl script.
Are any of them USB? I wonder if I can get one to scan book ISBNs into standard text format so that I can use my Powerbook (running Tiger) to quickly enter the boxes of books in my garage into paperbackswap.com.
Yeah, sorry about the confusion. My argument comment was really meant for the parent to your post. Arg! Hopefully they'll read it. Anyway, as for the remote-piloting idea:
NasaSpaceFlight.com - Orbiters may save themselves
If they can fly unmanned, why not keep them around? Send them to the ISS, dock them remotely with the Kurs system or a variant of it, have a crew board and get the stuff, then send them home. Of course, I don't think they should be retired at all -- there's missions that big unmanned rockets can't do, or that the return capability is still needed for. If you're that worried about ascent and reentry, launch the crew in another ship and have it dock with the orbiter, then have them go home separately.
Makes everybody happy!
While you could build a carry rig, the stress problem still remains, and also the parts aren't designed for delivery that way. The ESA is working on a larger ferry that can carry SOME stuff that can't be hauled by Progress/Soyuz, but it's not ready yet; and some stuff just needs the Shuttle to deliver it, especially the components. The Shuttle is simply unmatched in a number of ways, and this is one of them.
The shuttle was designed to build and resupply a space station. You're arguing that something designed to do its job shouldn't; you're going to find that a stopgap measure is almost always inferior to using something in its intended fashion.
Try again. Stuff that the government thinks is secret really isn't. You really can't keep a secret once you involve more than a small handful of people. Say, more than zero. Whether accidentally or not, the information tends to get out. The length of time it takes does vary, but 40 years is pushing it.
Uh, you don't have to have a manned spacecraft to have a landing site of a spacecraft. The article doesn't say anything about cosmonauts because there were never any on the Moon but there's lots of Luna spacecraft. The first successful soft landing was carried out by Luna 9, actually.
Yet again someone manages to RTFA but doesn't do basic research before opening their mouth and revealing their uninformed state.
Boy, you don't know much about what goes up to the ISS, do you? There's lots of stuff that won't fit on the Progress and Soyuz spacecraft. That's what the MPLM modules are for, carried by Shuttle orbiters -- which also bring up vital components for station construction, along with things like replacement parts that can't be shipped via Progress.
What you suggest just can't be done. Try doing some research next time, huh?
You forget one small but vital thing: You're using the layman's definition of "theory":
When people write that "scientists admit it's just a theory", these guys are using the common definition for the word "theory," i.e. an opinion. The Big Bang, however, is a scientific theory, like evolution, which has scientific data to support it. If there was no data to support it, it would cease to exist to be a theory and scientists would make another to try and better explain their hypothesis.
If, as others have pointed out (all over the freaking place), the evidence did not exist, another hypothesis would be formulated, researched, and become a scientific theory in time as evidence was gathered. Sorry. Evolution and the Big Bang are real. They're still being refined all the time as new evidence comes to light, but they're real.