He's most likely talking about how Pearl Jam allows their audience to bootleg their concerts..
I didn't get that impression from reading the "article" (one could hardly call that four paragraph piece an article...) In fact, nowhere does he mention bootlegs at all in the piece. Who knows, you may be right though. Still doesn't change the fact that Pearl Jam hasn't released a new album in years.
As a counter to his argument, one can always offer up the Wilknots "YHF" that was available from the band online well before the CD release and it's sold fairly well.
To me, the "Pearl Jam Effect" means that they haven't released a good album since Vs. Sure, there have been a few decent tracks here and there, but none of the albums since Vs. has been worth a hill of beans... Is this what Moby means?
"Carbon sequestration" does not only mean pumping CO2 into the ocean.  In general, it means taking the CO2 out of industrial exhaust and putting it somewhere before it goes into the atmosphere.  The fact that people are freaking out about it going into the ocean is because of a poorly written article that makes assumptions NOT because the Bush administration says they support it.  So, while you may have read the article, it may be questionable that you actually comprehended it.
The Globe article is a nice troll...
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And once again, Michael shows his biases by posting this (suprise!!!)
Michael, do you even bother to read the article with any objectivity?
From the article:
...a growing number of scientists, environmental organizations and energy officials fear that the Bush administration has become prematurely enamored of this geo-engineering...
The administration has not suggested pumping CO2 into the ocean.  Some people only fear that they will.  Big frickin' difference!
So for me, it still begs the question.  What global warming?
Why adjust for inflation?  What I want to know is how many people saw the film.  The gross earnings aren't accurate for determining this when the price of a ticket ranges anywhere from $4-$12 depending on time and location.
First off, it's "News, Corp." that's supporting the bill, and not specifically FoxNews. And I would hardly say that News Corp. and Disney are on opposite sides of the politcal spectrum.  Finally, the common goal that unites them is they stand to make a *lot* of money if this bill becomes law.
The fight against DCMA, copyright extension, UCITA (or whatever it was - the law being peddled to states to give click-through licenses teeth etc.) are all worthwhile, but they are attacking the symptoms. The influence of money over politics is the cause.
I'd beg to differ with your assertion. In fact, I think you've got it backwards... Because of the power of government, money flows to buy influence. True campaign finance reform can only come when the power of government is limited. The mess we're getting into now will only cause the money to flow in different ways but make no mistake, it'll still get there because the politicians still have the power that can be bought.
Working as a checker at CompUSA should not be a career. As such, it's only worth about $7 per hour. If you're going to have a job, you should do your best at it (or find something more to your liking elsewhere...)
Anyhow, airport security in the U.S. has always been private.Now that it's federalized, the only thing that has been done is that the formerly private company employees are now on the federal payroll.And as for the success (or lack thereof) of private airport security, the methods used on September 11th were in no way a violation of FAA procedures. It was perfectly legal for the hijackers to take knives and boxcutters on the flights.
Perhaps the poster meant to say "This should prove to be as successful as Federalized airport security..."
Cutting funding to NASA which has pure science and exploration as it's primary goal makes sense to Conservatives because they see it as science which doesn't create wealth.
Pure science and exploration are the primary goals of NASA?Seems to me that according to NASA's mission statement that they want to do more practial application than pure research (2 of their 3 primary goals are mostly practical applications...)
And you obviously don't know jack about conservatives if you think that they are only interested in things that create wealth.The primary agenda of most conservatives that I know (myself included) is reducing the size and scope of government.
STFU, there were PLENTY of dedicated and TALENTED developpers on amiga while PC had a far less % compared to it's userbase.
Ok, so we know two things:
1) You're fairly hot headed.
2) You are voicing opinions and masquerading them as fact.
How the heck do you know the percentage of talented programmers compared to the userbase?  Was every Amiga user a freakin' genius?  No, they weren't as I know plenty of them...
Commodore 64 had as much piracy, if not more...
And when did widespead pircacy come about on the Commodore 64?  *WAY* after it's release.  That simply wasn't the case for the Amiga.  The Amiga never got the market penetration that the C-64 did and as such, I'd argue that the level of piracy on the Amiga as a percentage of the userbase was much, much higher than the C-64.  At the end of the C-64's life-cycle, I'm sure piracy ran rampant (I know I didn't buy any games for it the last year or so of it's useable life but I sure was able to get them all over my speed 1200 baud modem...)
As for the history of the Amiga, I know it well.  Thanks so much for your pointless rant...
I'd say that piracy was a large part of the demise of the Amiga.  There were a smaller number of machines out there relative to the Mac and PC and the typical piracy levels had a much larger effect on developers of the platform.  While I don't think that piracy was the primary reason for it's demise, I do feel that it played a significant role.
First, ok, so i misquoted the constitution, so sue me.
You didn't misquote it.  It's a quote from an entirely different document and one that has no basis for granting rights as your (mis)quotation implied.  So it was a very important mistake that I think lends credence to my impression that you are rather uninformed...
Violations of rights is Violation of rights is Violation of rights. It doesn't matter if you are a us citizen or not. I believe the constitution said that "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL". Maybe i misread that.
So then why bother with citizenship?  I mean if everybody gets the rights of the Constitution afforded to them why then do we have citizenship?  Oh yeah, that's right, to get the rights the Constitution grants to citizens.  And by the way, you lose quite a bit of credibility when you confuse the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution.  So yeah, you did misread that.  Why don't you actually try reading the Constitution.
As for this not being a real war, I think you're off base.  Corny as this sounds, I believe the war on terrorism is a war against evil that has long been necessary.  Does that mean I want to lay down my rights in order to prosecute it?  Of course not, but I don't believe that's what's happening to the extent that others are hysterical about it on slashdot...
I slobber uncontrollably when I think about a DVR that would let me archive shows to my file server.
You mean like a stand-alone Tivo with a network card added along with a web server running on it?  Then you can make an MPEG-2 file from the data stored on the Tivo.  The downside is that there currently isn't a way to get the data back to the Tivo for viewing.
Then again, every time the Hubble is used in something new, I am impressed considering its rocky beginings and the amazing in-orbit mirror replacement that had to be done just to get it working.
Hubble's mirror was not replaced.  From STScI:
Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
COSTAR is not a science instrument; it is a corrective optics package that displaced the High Speed Photometer during the first servicing mission to HST. COSTAR is designed to optically correct the effects of the primary mirror's aberration on the three remaining scientific instruments: Faint Object Camera (FOC), Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), and the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS).
Also, IIRC, even without the addition of COSTAR, the images we got from Hubble were better than anything else we could get on the ground at the time although obviously not as good as they could have been...:-)
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As a matter of fact, the nForce2 is a completely new product that harks on the technology of its predecessor.
Can somebody please give me a definition of "harks"?
Seriously...
Shame on me for not reviewing my submission before submitting... Change "new" to "good".
Sorry about the confusion...
The Wilknots are a local band. That should be Wilco...
He's most likely talking about how Pearl Jam allows their audience to bootleg their concerts..
I didn't get that impression from reading the "article" (one could hardly call that four paragraph piece an article...) In fact, nowhere does he mention bootlegs at all in the piece. Who knows, you may be right though. Still doesn't change the fact that Pearl Jam hasn't released a new album in years.
As a counter to his argument, one can always offer up the Wilknots "YHF" that was available from the band online well before the CD release and it's sold fairly well.
To me, the "Pearl Jam Effect" means that they haven't released a good album since Vs. Sure, there have been a few decent tracks here and there, but none of the albums since Vs. has been worth a hill of beans... Is this what Moby means?
"Carbon sequestration" does not only mean pumping CO2 into the ocean.  In general, it means taking the CO2 out of industrial exhaust and putting it somewhere before it goes into the atmosphere.  The fact that people are freaking out about it going into the ocean is because of a poorly written article that makes assumptions NOT because the Bush administration says they support it.  So, while you may have read the article, it may be questionable that you actually comprehended it.
And once again, Michael shows his biases by posting this (suprise!!!)
...a growing number of scientists, environmental organizations and energy officials fear that the Bush administration has become prematurely enamored of this geo-engineering...
Michael, do you even bother to read the article with any objectivity?
From the article:
The administration has not suggested pumping CO2 into the ocean.  Some people only fear that they will.  Big frickin' difference!
So for me, it still begs the question.  What global warming?
Why adjust for inflation?  What I want to know is how many people saw the film.  The gross earnings aren't accurate for determining this when the price of a ticket ranges anywhere from $4-$12 depending on time and location.
First off, it's "News, Corp." that's supporting the bill, and not specifically FoxNews. And I would hardly say that News Corp. and Disney are on opposite sides of the politcal spectrum.  Finally, the common goal that unites them is they stand to make a *lot* of money if this bill becomes law.
Not to mention all the money going through. I honestly don't know why these politicians aren't sued for bribery.
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Isn't campaign finance reform going to fix this?
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So, you can park your laptop, order a burger/beer, then email in a movie review all w/o disturbing your fellow patrons.
:-)
No, I wouldn't find the clicking of the keys or the backlight of the LCD from the guy sitting next to me annoying at all.
According to the BBC news article mentioned in another post:
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British researchers say the process is entirely natural and is not due to global warming.
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The fight against DCMA, copyright extension, UCITA (or whatever it was - the law being peddled to states to give click-through licenses teeth etc.) are all worthwhile, but they are attacking the symptoms. The influence of money over politics is the cause.
I'd beg to differ with your assertion. In fact, I think you've got it backwards... Because of the power of government, money flows to buy influence. True campaign finance reform can only come when the power of government is limited. The mess we're getting into now will only cause the money to flow in different ways but make no mistake, it'll still get there because the politicians still have the power that can be bought.
Working as a checker at CompUSA should not be a career. As such, it's only worth about $7 per hour. If you're going to have a job, you should do your best at it (or find something more to your liking elsewhere...)
Yeah, and what the heck do you know about SNMP?!? :-)
Not sure why the parent is being modded as funny.
Anyhow, airport security in the U.S. has always been private.Now that it's federalized, the only thing that has been done is that the formerly private company employees are now on the federal payroll.And as for the success (or lack thereof) of private airport security, the methods used on September 11th were in no way a violation of FAA procedures. It was perfectly legal for the hijackers to take knives and boxcutters on the flights.
Perhaps the poster meant to say "This should prove to be as successful as Federalized airport security..."
Cutting funding to NASA which has pure science and exploration as it's primary goal makes sense to Conservatives because they see it as science which doesn't create wealth.
Pure science and exploration are the primary goals of NASA?Seems to me that according to NASA's mission statement that they want to do more practial application than pure research (2 of their 3 primary goals are mostly practical applications...)
And you obviously don't know jack about conservatives if you think that they are only interested in things that create wealth.The primary agenda of most conservatives that I know (myself included) is reducing the size and scope of government.
Apparently Congressman Boucher (D-VA) thinks it's time for the DMCA to be rewritten.
Can't say I disagree with him one bit...
STFU, there were PLENTY of dedicated and TALENTED developpers on amiga while PC had a far less % compared to it's userbase.
Ok, so we know two things:
1) You're fairly hot headed.
2) You are voicing opinions and masquerading them as fact.
How the heck do you know the percentage of talented programmers compared to the userbase?  Was every Amiga user a freakin' genius?  No, they weren't as I know plenty of them...
Commodore 64 had as much piracy, if not more...
And when did widespead pircacy come about on the Commodore 64?  *WAY* after it's release.  That simply wasn't the case for the Amiga.  The Amiga never got the market penetration that the C-64 did and as such, I'd argue that the level of piracy on the Amiga as a percentage of the userbase was much, much higher than the C-64.  At the end of the C-64's life-cycle, I'm sure piracy ran rampant (I know I didn't buy any games for it the last year or so of it's useable life but I sure was able to get them all over my speed 1200 baud modem...)
As for the history of the Amiga, I know it well.  Thanks so much for your pointless rant...
I'd say that piracy was a large part of the demise of the Amiga.  There were a smaller number of machines out there relative to the Mac and PC and the typical piracy levels had a much larger effect on developers of the platform.  While I don't think that piracy was the primary reason for it's demise, I do feel that it played a significant role.
First, ok, so i misquoted the constitution, so sue me.
You didn't misquote it.  It's a quote from an entirely different document and one that has no basis for granting rights as your (mis)quotation implied.  So it was a very important mistake that I think lends credence to my impression that you are rather uninformed...
Violations of rights is Violation of rights is Violation of rights. It doesn't matter if you are a us citizen or not. I believe the constitution said that "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL". Maybe i misread that.
So then why bother with citizenship?  I mean if everybody gets the rights of the Constitution afforded to them why then do we have citizenship?  Oh yeah, that's right, to get the rights the Constitution grants to citizens.  And by the way, you lose quite a bit of credibility when you confuse the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution.  So yeah, you did misread that.  Why don't you actually try reading the Constitution.
As for this not being a real war, I think you're off base.  Corny as this sounds, I believe the war on terrorism is a war against evil that has long been necessary.  Does that mean I want to lay down my rights in order to prosecute it?  Of course not, but I don't believe that's what's happening to the extent that others are hysterical about it on slashdot...
I slobber uncontrollably when I think about a DVR that would let me archive shows to my file server.
You mean like a stand-alone Tivo with a network card added along with a web server running on it?  Then you can make an MPEG-2 file from the data stored on the Tivo.  The downside is that there currently isn't a way to get the data back to the Tivo for viewing.
Then again, every time the Hubble is used in something new, I am impressed considering its rocky beginings and the amazing in-orbit mirror replacement that had to be done just to get it working.
:-)
Hubble's mirror was not replaced.  From STScI:
Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
COSTAR is not a science instrument; it is a corrective optics package that displaced the High Speed Photometer during the first servicing mission to HST. COSTAR is designed to optically correct the effects of the primary mirror's aberration on the three remaining scientific instruments: Faint Object Camera (FOC), Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), and the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS).
Also, IIRC, even without the addition of COSTAR, the images we got from Hubble were better than anything else we could get on the ground at the time although obviously not as good as they could have been...
Or for the technically challenged Linux user type:
/ ep2_breathing_m640.mov
wget -U "QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)" http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/media/pro