Somehow I don't think open source drivers for embedded 2D graphics cards found in media centers and laptops is going to cause a drop in sales of GeForce 6800s and X800s.
But will evolution get rid of them? With any other species, the survival (and reproductive success) rate would increase with a mutation to dumb down or eventually remove these organs. But as humans move toward universal health care these once life-threatening deficiencies make little difference in survival and reproductive success. Are we preventing ourselves from evolving?
I don't know, I use binary packages for just about everything unless I want the latest bleeding edge stuff or it's just a small trivial package. Gentoo doesn't MAKE you compile everything, it's just the default option.
But to answer your question, I've had a fully compiled system started from stage one, and didn't have any hard drive problems. Also didn't notice any visible performance difference, but the customizability has kept me with Gentoo for a long time now.
Not quite true; the AAC files I've purchased off iTunes are all 16bit/44.1kHz, PLUS they are encoded with a lossy 128kpbs AAC encoder where a CD has no such encoding, just raw PCM data. I don't think I would be able to tell the difference between a CD and an iTunes song in a double blind test, just pointing out the technical error.
I third the motion. Go in to general business and take a few courses here and there to find out what interests you; maybe you want to invest in real estate on the side, or maybe you'd like to increase your chance of moving in to middle management (management degree) or upper management (accounting degree, there are more CEOs with CPAs than any other professional certification or degree, and it's an obvious step towards CFO).
Last year I predicted Verizon would be the first to roll out service capable of streaming digital music with their EV-DO network. Looks like I was wrong, but eventually first-to-market attempts like these will be run over by generic high-speed mobile connections through cellphones that could hook up to a laptop, Internet-enabled MP3 player, Internet-enabled home stereo, etc.
Here's the paper I wrote on it (warning, a bit lengthy): http://www.jhurliman.org/misc/fmradio-alternatives -12092004.pdf
Actors/actresses should copyright themselves, and charge the paparazzi outrageous amounts as well as having ultimate say over what can and can't be published. No more worrying about privacy invasion, they can just ban anyone except agent-approved photographers from taking pictures of them!
Because most people have no idea how to save money for retirement. So a few people properly plan their retirement and do better than they would with Social Security, while everyone else blows their money on late night infomercial products or has it swindled away by private enterprises promising you will "Retire with a million dollars!". This puts an additional burden on the welfare system, and worse, these people are retired so they have no chance of going on welfare-to-work programs or similar things. The economic dead weight from letting people blow their retirement savings and then looking for a free handout would be tremendous.
For sampling purposes, it doesn't really matter if you have the A-side or B-side tracks from a particular artist, you can assume (most) all the tracks were made with the same hardware setup and went through the same mastering, and will be of similar quality. Those B-sides are going to have perfectly usable drum kit and other miscellaneous samples as long as it's of acceptable quality. Having a license to sample an A-side track is only really useful if you want to make a remix of that particular song.
MythTV uses mplayer (or any program of your choosing actually) to play back video files, and mplayer supports WMV9 with the binary codecs installed. Not sure if the commercial offerings support this, but a DIY solution certainly would.
And to balance things out, does a solution based on Windows Media Center support AAC and OGG [Vorbis/Theora]?
I don't know, Goonies was good but where do you think it should have gone, top 10? I think top 20 is fair.
Everything. OK! I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog... When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out... But the worst thing I ever done - I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.
Your assumption is incorrect. A company can set aside shares when the options contract is written up, or buy shares off the market (shareholders) when the options are exercised, or print up new stock certificates at any time (called a split). The number of shares increases without changing the total amount of shareholders equity, effectively diluting the stock price. That's one of the reasons this is a difficult situation, because of the uncertainty. A company can take any of these actions, and the stock may or may not ever hit it's strike price.
I believe the parent poster meant liability in the sense of the Assets = Liabilities + Owners Equity equation, whereas before this ruling the stock options didn't exist in the (public) financial records until the options were exercised, essentially doing cash based accounting in an accrual based report.
They aren't comparable. A doctorate requires about two more years of school and another thesis (maybe more I haven't looked in to it in detail) than a masters degree. If you meant to say that biochemistry and physics are more difficult coursework than business, it's highly variable depending on the school you go to, the instructors you have, and what branch of each field you go in to. For example the CPA (accountant) exam is the most difficult professional exam in the U.S. with a higher failure rate than the bar exam and all other field certifications. Quantitative finance is generally regarded as a much more scientifically intense field (math and statistics) than your average genetics major. Most importantly, many physics majors would be lost in the business world and lack the interpersonal and management skills required to function. Many business majors cannot comprehend the high level math and science courses required to be proficient in physics. So trying to compare apples to oranges is actually a fruitless (sorry) endeavour.
Did anyone look at the diagram? It's using the water line that goes to the cities' water supply in the heat exchanger loop. So any warming of the water would mean your drinking water gets warmer, not the lake. But they might have been pulling off the top or middle of the lake previously, and ran the pipe lower to compensate, or there is enough heat exchange with the main water line and the earth (and/or in the water treatment plant) that this has no net effect on the water supply temperature.
How many large organisations do you really know that have been hit hard because of a bug in Microsoft software?
By hit hard I assume you are discounting the IT costs of the e-mail worms that plague Outlook, even though some articles have claimed multi-million dollar expenses. Instead I'll kick this off with the time Bank Of America shut their doors for three days in Spokane here because a virus attacked the MS-SQL servers. I'm sure the rest of Slashdot has much more entertaining stories.
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1) Create javascript-driven frontend allowing you to choose your plugins, add e-mail client or calendar, etc.
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2) Tie the frontend to the NSIS installer and generate a customized installer. Use caching to alleviate CPU stress.
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4) Profit!
Somehow I don't think open source drivers for embedded 2D graphics cards found in media centers and laptops is going to cause a drop in sales of GeForce 6800s and X800s.
But will evolution get rid of them? With any other species, the survival (and reproductive success) rate would increase with a mutation to dumb down or eventually remove these organs. But as humans move toward universal health care these once life-threatening deficiencies make little difference in survival and reproductive success. Are we preventing ourselves from evolving?
I don't know, I use binary packages for just about everything unless I want the latest bleeding edge stuff or it's just a small trivial package. Gentoo doesn't MAKE you compile everything, it's just the default option.
But to answer your question, I've had a fully compiled system started from stage one, and didn't have any hard drive problems. Also didn't notice any visible performance difference, but the customizability has kept me with Gentoo for a long time now.
Not quite true; the AAC files I've purchased off iTunes are all 16bit/44.1kHz, PLUS they are encoded with a lossy 128kpbs AAC encoder where a CD has no such encoding, just raw PCM data. I don't think I would be able to tell the difference between a CD and an iTunes song in a double blind test, just pointing out the technical error.
I third the motion. Go in to general business and take a few courses here and there to find out what interests you; maybe you want to invest in real estate on the side, or maybe you'd like to increase your chance of moving in to middle management (management degree) or upper management (accounting degree, there are more CEOs with CPAs than any other professional certification or degree, and it's an obvious step towards CFO).
Last year I predicted Verizon would be the first to roll out service capable of streaming digital music with their EV-DO network. Looks like I was wrong, but eventually first-to-market attempts like these will be run over by generic high-speed mobile connections through cellphones that could hook up to a laptop, Internet-enabled MP3 player, Internet-enabled home stereo, etc.
s -12092004.pdf
Here's the paper I wrote on it (warning, a bit lengthy): http://www.jhurliman.org/misc/fmradio-alternative
I can put it up online, e-mail is jhurliman (at) wsu.edu
Actors/actresses should copyright themselves, and charge the paparazzi outrageous amounts as well as having ultimate say over what can and can't be published. No more worrying about privacy invasion, they can just ban anyone except agent-approved photographers from taking pictures of them!
All of this has been solved, http://www.vonage.com/
http://tracker.piratbyran.org/download.php/3280073 /eXeem0.20.exe.torrent
Because most people have no idea how to save money for retirement. So a few people properly plan their retirement and do better than they would with Social Security, while everyone else blows their money on late night infomercial products or has it swindled away by private enterprises promising you will "Retire with a million dollars!". This puts an additional burden on the welfare system, and worse, these people are retired so they have no chance of going on welfare-to-work programs or similar things. The economic dead weight from letting people blow their retirement savings and then looking for a free handout would be tremendous.
After reading this post I'm thinking TCP/IP packets should be added to the DEA controlled substances list.
I have a faster way of guaranteeing a unique 128-bit identifier given a unique MAC address.
guid = mac_address + padded_zeros;
For sampling purposes, it doesn't really matter if you have the A-side or B-side tracks from a particular artist, you can assume (most) all the tracks were made with the same hardware setup and went through the same mastering, and will be of similar quality. Those B-sides are going to have perfectly usable drum kit and other miscellaneous samples as long as it's of acceptable quality. Having a license to sample an A-side track is only really useful if you want to make a remix of that particular song.
weren't necessary for home protection or policing
I'd say it's necessary for the police to be armed. What is a nightstick going to do in a 7-11 robbery shootout?
MythTV uses mplayer (or any program of your choosing actually) to play back video files, and mplayer supports WMV9 with the binary codecs installed. Not sure if the commercial offerings support this, but a DIY solution certainly would.
And to balance things out, does a solution based on Windows Media Center support AAC and OGG [Vorbis/Theora]?
I don't know, Goonies was good but where do you think it should have gone, top 10? I think top 20 is fair.
Everything. OK! I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog... When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out... But the worst thing I ever done - I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.
Your assumption is incorrect. A company can set aside shares when the options contract is written up, or buy shares off the market (shareholders) when the options are exercised, or print up new stock certificates at any time (called a split). The number of shares increases without changing the total amount of shareholders equity, effectively diluting the stock price. That's one of the reasons this is a difficult situation, because of the uncertainty. A company can take any of these actions, and the stock may or may not ever hit it's strike price.
Wouldn't a giant sombrero hat be more effective against spying satellites? I knew I should have brought one back from vacation...
I believe the parent poster meant liability in the sense of the Assets = Liabilities + Owners Equity equation, whereas before this ruling the stock options didn't exist in the (public) financial records until the options were exercised, essentially doing cash based accounting in an accrual based report.
They aren't comparable. A doctorate requires about two more years of school and another thesis (maybe more I haven't looked in to it in detail) than a masters degree. If you meant to say that biochemistry and physics are more difficult coursework than business, it's highly variable depending on the school you go to, the instructors you have, and what branch of each field you go in to. For example the CPA (accountant) exam is the most difficult professional exam in the U.S. with a higher failure rate than the bar exam and all other field certifications. Quantitative finance is generally regarded as a much more scientifically intense field (math and statistics) than your average genetics major. Most importantly, many physics majors would be lost in the business world and lack the interpersonal and management skills required to function. Many business majors cannot comprehend the high level math and science courses required to be proficient in physics. So trying to compare apples to oranges is actually a fruitless (sorry) endeavour.
You need to go through grad school to get an MBA, so even those "random dicks" endure the same torture you do.
Did anyone look at the diagram? It's using the water line that goes to the cities' water supply in the heat exchanger loop. So any warming of the water would mean your drinking water gets warmer, not the lake. But they might have been pulling off the top or middle of the lake previously, and ran the pipe lower to compensate, or there is enough heat exchange with the main water line and the earth (and/or in the water treatment plant) that this has no net effect on the water supply temperature.
How many large organisations do you really know that have been hit hard because of a bug in Microsoft software?
By hit hard I assume you are discounting the IT costs of the e-mail worms that plague Outlook, even though some articles have claimed multi-million dollar expenses. Instead I'll kick this off with the time Bank Of America shut their doors for three days in Spokane here because a virus attacked the MS-SQL servers. I'm sure the rest of Slashdot has much more entertaining stories.