Do you and your kids do a fluoride rinse every night? It really helped me.
Several years ago I moved to a new dentist who discovered a pit forming that was probably going to be a cavity when I went back in 6 months. My wife (a dental hygienist at the time, she's since moved on to a job with a career path) recommended Act-brand rinse when I told her about it. It's several years and a different dentist later and while the pit is still there, it's no worse and I haven't developed any other pits or cavities.
You can find the Act-brand fluoride rinse in all the big boxes and chain pharmacies in the US. If you get a different brand, make sure it's a fluoride rinse. Listerine, for example, doesn't have fluoride and won't help.
I promise not to bitch about the lack of firewire in the new Mac Minis, unlike my faithless ranting about the new MacBooks! Just come back.
If I don't get my regular of RDF rays I go all wonky and think about buying crap from Dell! Or running Darwin on a home built system as a back end media server!
Congress, state legislatures, and local municipalities have all put laws in place that restrict who may own guns and what type of guns you may own. They have done this without any ammendments to the Constitution.
It is definitely plausible that any or all of those groups would try to change the electoral college in a similar manner.
When I said reneging, I thought it implied changing the system without ammending the Constitution. I'm clearly aware of Constitutional ammendments, if you read my fourth point.
1. The rural population has power disproportionate to their population because they make the food you eat. The ag industry drives this country. If you think dependance on foreign energy sources is bad, meditate on the consequences of a dependance on foreign food.
Speaking of, the arguments I hear against ag subsidies tend to be as dumb and poorly framed as your arguments against personal gun ownership.
2. The electoral college was a deal made with every state as they entered the Union. Reneging on that deal would be justifiable grounds for separation from the Union, IMO.
As others have pointed out in this thread, something like an electoral college is necessary in an Enlightenment-style Republic. It is necessary because it prevents mob rule democracy.
3. "...the usa has been mostly rural throughout its history, but is shifting to majority urban in recent years..." The US has been mostly urban since before the Great Depression. http://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/urpop0090.txt
4. If you really want to get rid of personal gun ownership, start the process of amending the Constitution.
...apple to encrypt the ipod internal database......apple encrypt the bootloader...
Hmmm... Didn't know they did that. But I've upgraded through three iPods and my wife has one too.
We have more DRM-free songs than can fit in anything except the "classic" model. We've ripped tons of video from DVD, plus made tons of home movies. And I've never bought or used any digital restrictions management-infected music or videos. We've never run into any issues with this.
Guess none of this really matters. I think I'll go pour myself a drink. Nice talking to you, really. Thanks for the encrypted bootloader and db info.
I'm a "computer security professional" as well and will be replacing my 12" G4 PowerBook with one of the new unibody MacBooks when they start shipping with Snow Leopard installed.
I'm not concerned about this HDCP crap at all.
It only affects you if you are trying to play content that is HDCP-aware. I hope that any one reading/. knows how to avoid HDCP-aware content.
I basically read this as Apple implicitly supporting piracy. Once again, pirates can use their media as they want while the rubes have to deal with the inconvenience of DRM.
They have to spend resources on implementing it into their software and hardware. Those resources could be spent developing new and innovative features their customers actually want.
No customer wants this crap and it makes Apple computers more difficult to use. Apple wants their computers to be easy to use and filled with things customers want.
Better not buy a zune, your videos won't work there!
Well, if I bought the videos in the Zune store they wouldn't work on the iPod. How is that good for Apple? This "Apple likes DRM because it gives them iPod lock-in" story is just ridiculous. People buy iPods because they work well, are nicely integrated with OS X and Windows and online store, and are fashion objects.
If Apple really had such a hard-on for DRM they wouldn't let their iPods play unprotected mp3 or aac audio files or unprotected mp4 video.
Are you saying using smit and smitty was a pure joy?
Bwahahaha!
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It's a book for adults. You'll understand it when you grow up. It might help if you had some empathy for Novinha and/or have encountered someone like her in your real life.
I was a huge fan of Ender's Game. I avoided Speaker for the Dead for decades--DECADES!--despite it winning the hugo and nebula because "sequals always suck".
I was sooo wrong. Please, please, please read Speaker for the Dead!
If you consider yourself to be a fan of science-fiction you are just delusional if you haven't read this book.
You totally contradict yourself. You say "what happened to people actually READING up on something before making a big purchase." then answer yourself with "computers have become so cheap, they can be considered a an impulse purchase now."
While it might border on collusion, if HP, Dell, and Microsoft decide they're going with AMD as their preferred chip provider they would have leverage.
Intel knew for at least three years that WDDM was going to be a requirement for Vista (nee Longhorn) but kept foisting the 915 on OEMs.
They had Microsoft and the OEMs over a barrel. Intel should have been able to get a product in the pipeline in time, but kept beating the 915 horse until they fucked over the entire industry.
Customers that want and expect a budget PC that can run the latest Windows are the victims. Blaming them unfairly shifts the focus from Intel's and Microsoft's malice.
Also from the memo, from an Email Poole sent around MS:
Basically from Intel's point of view, the longer they sell non-glass capable integrated graphics, that is an outdated (osborned part that OEMs won't want to handle as it's non glass capable. Frankly Intel should have thought of this 3 years ago.
Essentially, Intel knew for about three years that their crappy integrated graphics wouldn't be up to snuff, but did nothing because the 915 chipset was raking in billions in profit for themselves.
Intel fucked Microsoft, fucked the OEMs, and fucked consumers. Intel should be facing a massive lawsuit from all three of those parties.
If I were Microsoft and the OEMs I'd also be doing everything I could to stop doing business with Intel.
Microsoft knew by at least August 2005 that the widely-used Intel "915" chipset "definitely won't qualify for the logo." That same month, Intel published an internet link "positioning 915 GM as optimum for Windows Vista on Mobile PCs," which Microsoft internally viewed as "misleading" and "egregious" at the time....
In the aftermath of the publication of the Microsoft and Intel links, Microsfot employees internally viewed Intel as "intentionally" trying to "hide the ball" on the inability of its 915 chipsets to run WDDM.
It's pretty clear that Intel couldn't get it's shit together and kept foisting its shitty 915 graphics on HP, Dell, etc., for use in high-margin notebooks. The OEMs were screwed because Intel was the source for chipsets that made the value proposition of low-end notebooks work.
Microsoft is the one getting sued, but Intel is at least as culpable and incompetent, IMHO.
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Unlocked music from iTunes, finally.
Now they can focus on getting television episodes and movies unlocked.
Do you and your kids do a fluoride rinse every night? It really helped me.
Several years ago I moved to a new dentist who discovered a pit forming that was probably going to be a cavity when I went back in 6 months. My wife (a dental hygienist at the time, she's since moved on to a job with a career path) recommended Act-brand rinse when I told her about it. It's several years and a different dentist later and while the pit is still there, it's no worse and I haven't developed any other pits or cavities.
You can find the Act-brand fluoride rinse in all the big boxes and chain pharmacies in the US. If you get a different brand, make sure it's a fluoride rinse. Listerine, for example, doesn't have fluoride and won't help.
This is a text book case of time to become an independent contractor.
You choose your work. You choose your hours. It's can be a little scary, but too, it's the foundation of the American dream.
Get a lawyer, get an accountant, and get a mentor.
Then live the dream!
"Is there any other company with it's perception of viability so closely linked to a single living individual?"
I don't know, I think a lot of investors would be OK with Steve Ballmer keeling over.
Nooooooooo!!!
Fearless Leader, why have you forsaken us?
I promise not to bitch about the lack of firewire in the new Mac Minis, unlike my faithless ranting about the new MacBooks! Just come back.
If I don't get my regular of RDF rays I go all wonky and think about buying crap from Dell! Or running Darwin on a home built system as a back end media server!
Help us Steve Jobs, you're our only hope!
Congress, state legislatures, and local municipalities have all put laws in place that restrict who may own guns and what type of guns you may own. They have done this without any ammendments to the Constitution.
It is definitely plausible that any or all of those groups would try to change the electoral college in a similar manner.
When I said reneging, I thought it implied changing the system without ammending the Constitution. I'm clearly aware of Constitutional ammendments, if you read my fourth point.
Because RPM is specified by the Linux Standard Base.
1. The rural population has power disproportionate to their population because they make the food you eat. The ag industry drives this country. If you think dependance on foreign energy sources is bad, meditate on the consequences of a dependance on foreign food.
Speaking of, the arguments I hear against ag subsidies tend to be as dumb and poorly framed as your arguments against personal gun ownership.
2. The electoral college was a deal made with every state as they entered the Union. Reneging on that deal would be justifiable grounds for separation from the Union, IMO.
As others have pointed out in this thread, something like an electoral college is necessary in an Enlightenment-style Republic. It is necessary because it prevents mob rule democracy.
3. "...the usa has been mostly rural throughout its history, but is shifting to majority urban in recent years..."
The US has been mostly urban since before the Great Depression. http://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/urpop0090.txt
4. If you really want to get rid of personal gun ownership, start the process of amending the Constitution.
CableOne has no problem selling me cable Internet without phone or TV.
And "x is rubbish" is a British phrase meaning "x sucks".
Why should I use this new Fedora instead of Ubuntu or OS X or FreeBSD, etc.?
What a shitty summary (par for the course, I know, I know).
The proof is in the tasting of the pudding. </pendant>
Hmmm... Didn't know they did that. But I've upgraded through three iPods and my wife has one too.
We have more DRM-free songs than can fit in anything except the "classic" model. We've ripped tons of video from DVD, plus made tons of home movies. And I've never bought or used any digital restrictions management-infected music or videos. We've never run into any issues with this.
Guess none of this really matters. I think I'll go pour myself a drink. Nice talking to you, really. Thanks for the encrypted bootloader and db info.
That's a nice vest. Scientific proof that geek fashion has been in decline for the past several hundred years.
I'm a "computer security professional" as well and will be replacing my 12" G4 PowerBook with one of the new unibody MacBooks when they start shipping with Snow Leopard installed.
I'm not concerned about this HDCP crap at all.
It only affects you if you are trying to play content that is HDCP-aware. I hope that any one reading /. knows how to avoid HDCP-aware content.
I basically read this as Apple implicitly supporting piracy. Once again, pirates can use their media as they want while the rubes have to deal with the inconvenience of DRM.
They have to spend resources on implementing it into their software and hardware. Those resources could be spent developing new and innovative features their customers actually want.
No customer wants this crap and it makes Apple computers more difficult to use. Apple wants their computers to be easy to use and filled with things customers want.
Well, if I bought the videos in the Zune store they wouldn't work on the iPod. How is that good for Apple? This "Apple likes DRM because it gives them iPod lock-in" story is just ridiculous. People buy iPods because they work well, are nicely integrated with OS X and Windows and online store, and are fashion objects.
If Apple really had such a hard-on for DRM they wouldn't let their iPods play unprotected mp3 or aac audio files or unprotected mp4 video.
Are you saying using smit and smitty was a pure joy?
Bwahahaha!
It's a book for adults. You'll understand it when you grow up. It might help if you had some empathy for Novinha and/or have encountered someone like her in your real life.
I was a huge fan of Ender's Game. I avoided Speaker for the Dead for decades--DECADES!--despite it winning the hugo and nebula because "sequals always suck".
I was sooo wrong. Please, please, please read Speaker for the Dead!
If you consider yourself to be a fan of science-fiction you are just delusional if you haven't read this book.
You totally contradict yourself. You say "what happened to people actually READING up on something before making a big purchase." then answer yourself with "computers have become so cheap, they can be considered a an impulse purchase now."
While it might border on collusion, if HP, Dell, and Microsoft decide they're going with AMD as their preferred chip provider they would have leverage.
Intel knew for at least three years that WDDM was going to be a requirement for Vista (nee Longhorn) but kept foisting the 915 on OEMs.
They had Microsoft and the OEMs over a barrel. Intel should have been able to get a product in the pipeline in time, but kept beating the 915 horse until they fucked over the entire industry.
Customers that want and expect a budget PC that can run the latest Windows are the victims. Blaming them unfairly shifts the focus from Intel's and Microsoft's malice.
Shit, hit submit instead of preview.
Also from the memo, from an Email Poole sent around MS:
Essentially, Intel knew for about three years that their crappy integrated graphics wouldn't be up to snuff, but did nothing because the 915 chipset was raking in billions in profit for themselves.
Intel fucked Microsoft, fucked the OEMs, and fucked consumers. Intel should be facing a massive lawsuit from all three of those parties.
If I were Microsoft and the OEMs I'd also be doing everything I could to stop doing business with Intel.
The motion for summary judgement makes it pretty clear that Microsoft was in the wrong, but so was Intel.
It's pretty clear that Intel couldn't get it's shit together and kept foisting its shitty 915 graphics on HP, Dell, etc., for use in high-margin notebooks. The OEMs were screwed because Intel was the source for chipsets that made the value proposition of low-end notebooks work.
Microsoft is the one getting sued, but Intel is at least as culpable and incompetent, IMHO.