This is exactly what I've been waiting for. I don't want to have to pay 80 dollars a month to get the tier 3 channels that host the shows I like to watch. Especially when I don't want any of the channels in the tier 1&2 bundles. Cable providers used to talk a lot about a la carte service. To me that meant picking the specific channels you wanted. That never came about though. Instead I have peasant vision (basic cable), and the only reason I have that is because it comes with my internet connection. Until the networks provide me a cost effective option I will continue to use torrents to get my TV fix.
I'm still unsure of why people would setup their phone systems this way. I looked at setting up a VOIP box in my house, but it seemed to me that you had to pay a company for the phone service routing. The prices weren't cheap either. Am I missing something?
A politician I actually like? It's just not like them to tell the truth. It's amazing what will be said when people aren't afraid of being black-balled in the IT industry.
There is this classic confusion about classifying bugs. There is a fundamental difference between "linux" patches, as they call them, and kernel patches. The linux core has a relatively low number of security flaws. Even when they do, the severity of the patch is far lower since most bugs won't give you root level access. Unlike the windows bugs that typically will give you root/administrator rights. The distrobutions may have a lot more bugs, but they also include thousands of open source applications. If you want to compare bug numbers, it's only realistic when you count the number of bugs in the kernel compared to the windows base OS.
I wonder if the Star had planets. What would have happened to the solar system that surrounded the star? It would be interesting to see an animation of what this process looked like. If any of you Astro-Physics majors want to try and describe this for me that'd be great.
I listen to Digitally Imported Radio (DI) every day. In fact, since I have something always available I rarely download music anymore. It's simply more convienent to just tune in than it is to go searching for what I'm interested in.
I pay monthly to subscribe to Digitally Imported Radio. I was a gold subscriber for a year. Then I tried a 2 day platinum trial account and was sold instantly. The Plarinum gives you a 160K stream and it sounds simply amazing. Compressed audio is fine for simple listening, but sounds terrible the louder you turn it up. Even at 128K. All the MP3s I make are at least 192K.
I was listening to NPR this morning and they were doing a spot on the Constitution candidate running for president. His speech to a 12th grade school class was borderline embarrassing. He was pushing for evolution to be banned from schools and said, "These people want you to believe that your great grand-daddy was a small drop of goop, your grand daddy was a fish and your daddy was a chimp." Creationism is simple thinking for complex problems. A lot of people are frightened by the idea that some things can't be explained. In ancient Rome they blamed floods and earthquakes on Poseidon. Science later told us that these are explainable natural events, not the work of Gods. Science has given us answers to many of the questions about our world that used to be associated to gods. There are a few really tough questions left that scientists are making some headway on like, "What are we made of?" Which is being understood through particle physics and quantum theory. "Why are we here?" That's a tough and fundamentally esoteric question that I don't think anyone could agree on... and here is where religion comes in. I don't have a problem with religion itself, but I'm uneasy with it because it breeds fundamentalism, hatred and mistrust. A great number of our wars in history have been about, "My god is better than your god." Again, a product of simple thinking. The funniest part is that at the most basic level all religions agree on the same things, love, trust and harmony between man. Often these values are upheld, but more and more people are straying from the basic ideas of what religion was indeed to teach us.
Does this mean we'll see a price drop for the GeForce line? I've been putting off buying a new card, I don't want to end up buying it a couple of weeks before a price drop.
HERE! HERE!! I only wish I had some mod points for you.
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"I like how they said that it will run along side IPv4 for 20 years to get rid of the bugs" Fantatstic! This means it will only be another 20 years before we get a mass roll out of IPv6. *grin*
Both of which were covert CIA operations. Which is certainly a type of military action, but both were far from the mass casualties inflicted in full fledged wars. The bay of pigs invasion was an operation led mostly by Cuban nationals with the support of the CIA. The army, navy and marines were not hitting the beaches, which is probably why it failed... The assaination attempts on Castro again were not full fledged military operations. They were schemed and implemented by a few dozen CIA operatives.
Kennedy started a coup in early November. He was dead before the end of the month. You can blame Johnson for the bloody never ending war that followed. Nixon didn't help the situation either! Kennedey can hardly be held accountable for how the Vietnam war was handled.
Kennedey was not a war president. Instead of using the military industrial complex to float the US economy, like many presidents, he used NASA. This gave the people a goal and boosted the nations pride without having to stomp on a smaller nation. If the US spent half of the military budget on NASA our world would look far different. Science and technology have shown their ability to create massive wealth and prosperity. Look at what a tech focus did for the Clinton era. Let's revive the NASA era. Afterall we only have a few billion years left before this rock is engulfed by the sun. Possibly less than one hundred years before our lust with war obliterates our home.
...and yet, countless movies are available for download before they even hit the big screen.
That's because movie distributors send out hundreds of 'screener' copies so reviews can be out before the movie. Reviewers rip the DVDs and post them up to the net. Also, people sneaking video cameras into test audience screenings was a problem until they started patting people down and using infra-red to detect cameras in the theatres.
I agree with your commenst for the most part. Stealing a game is illegal and in the US, stealing music is no different. However, I have never heard of a person who has hacked a record labels servers and distributed rough tracks of an upcoming album. Theft from the public domain is one thing, but hacking in to private systems to steal digital property is something much worse in my mind.
That's not true at all. The only section of Canada that is dominated by French is Quebec (85%) and they don't even want to be a part of Canada... That's a whole other issue though. In fact most provinces have less than 5% French speaking citizens. Especially out west, we have less than 2% french speaking citizens. Your statement is like me saying that everyone in the US speaks with a spanish accent. Here's some census in fo for you. 1996 Census info on Language
I have a locked down workstation at work, but luckily i can still use a tabbed broswer! Firefox has an installation free release of firefox. You can simply unzip it to a folder on your computer or even network storage and run it from the single.exe. No installation required!
It's maybe not the end of the world, but the transit of venus is significant to occultists! The next transit happens in 2012, during this time the sync'd orbits of venus and earth form a pentagram. Graphic Here
Remember the ambient orb? Thinkgeek used to sell them, but I couldn't think of something I would find it useful for. This would be perfect. Just have a globe on your desktop that changes colors based on the data provided by the cube matrix. If the orb starts turning crimson, you know that that your network is in need of administrative attention.
I first heard baout it when it showed up in the kernel config menu. i wasn't sure what it was so I left it alone. To this day I've never quite understood what it did. I gather it was for hardening the kernel? I can't say I'm going to miss it since I never saw any use for it.
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This is exactly what I've been waiting for. I don't want to have to pay 80 dollars a month to get the tier 3 channels that host the shows I like to watch. Especially when I don't want any of the channels in the tier 1&2 bundles. Cable providers used to talk a lot about a la carte service. To me that meant picking the specific channels you wanted. That never came about though. Instead I have peasant vision (basic cable), and the only reason I have that is because it comes with my internet connection. Until the networks provide me a cost effective option I will continue to use torrents to get my TV fix.
I'm still unsure of why people would setup their phone systems this way. I looked at setting up a VOIP box in my house, but it seemed to me that you had to pay a company for the phone service routing. The prices weren't cheap either. Am I missing something?
A politician I actually like? It's just not like them to tell the truth.
It's amazing what will be said when people aren't afraid of being black-balled in the IT industry.
There is this classic confusion about classifying bugs. There is a fundamental difference between "linux" patches, as they call them, and kernel patches. The linux core has a relatively low number of security flaws. Even when they do, the severity of the patch is far lower since most bugs won't give you root level access. Unlike the windows bugs that typically will give you root/administrator rights. The distrobutions may have a lot more bugs, but they also include thousands of open source applications.
If you want to compare bug numbers, it's only realistic when you count the number of bugs in the kernel compared to the windows base OS.
I wonder if the Star had planets. What would have happened to the solar system that surrounded the star? It would be interesting to see an animation of what this process looked like. If any of you Astro-Physics majors want to try and describe this for me that'd be great.
actually I'm just a happy customer. I'm in Canada and can't work for a US company so be nice.
I listen to Digitally Imported Radio (DI) every day. In fact, since I have something always available I rarely download music anymore. It's simply more convienent to just tune in than it is to go searching for what I'm interested in.
I pay monthly to subscribe to Digitally Imported Radio. I was a gold subscriber for a year. Then I tried a 2 day platinum trial account and was sold instantly. The Plarinum gives you a 160K stream and it sounds simply amazing. Compressed audio is fine for simple listening, but sounds terrible the louder you turn it up. Even at 128K. All the MP3s I make are at least 192K.
I was listening to NPR this morning and they were doing a spot on the Constitution candidate running for president. His speech to a 12th grade school class was borderline embarrassing. He was pushing for evolution to be banned from schools and said, "These people want you to believe that your great grand-daddy was a small drop of goop, your grand daddy was a fish and your daddy was a chimp."
Creationism is simple thinking for complex problems. A lot of people are frightened by the idea that some things can't be explained. In ancient Rome they blamed floods and earthquakes on Poseidon. Science later told us that these are explainable natural events, not the work of Gods. Science has given us answers to many of the questions about our world that used to be associated to gods. There are a few really tough questions left that scientists are making some headway on like, "What are we made of?" Which is being understood through particle physics and quantum theory. "Why are we here?" That's a tough and fundamentally esoteric question that I don't think anyone could agree on... and here is where religion comes in. I don't have a problem with religion itself, but I'm uneasy with it because it breeds fundamentalism, hatred and mistrust. A great number of our wars in history have been about, "My god is better than your god." Again, a product of simple thinking. The funniest part is that at the most basic level all religions agree on the same things, love, trust and harmony between man. Often these values are upheld, but more and more people are straying from the basic ideas of what religion was indeed to teach us.
Does this mean we'll see a price drop for the GeForce line? I've been putting off buying a new card, I don't want to end up buying it a couple of weeks before a price drop.
HERE! HERE!! I only wish I had some mod points for you.
"I like how they said that it will run along side IPv4 for 20 years to get rid of the bugs"
Fantatstic! This means it will only be another 20 years before we get a mass roll out of IPv6. *grin*
I'm interested in the ability to play audio books at a higher speed. Do you think a simple feature like this will be included in a future update.
Both of which were covert CIA operations. Which is certainly a type of military action, but both were far from the mass casualties inflicted in full fledged wars.
The bay of pigs invasion was an operation led mostly by Cuban nationals with the support of the CIA. The army, navy and marines were not hitting the beaches, which is probably why it failed...
The assaination attempts on Castro again were not full fledged military operations. They were schemed and implemented by a few dozen CIA operatives.
Kennedy started a coup in early November. He was dead before the end of the month. You can blame Johnson for the bloody never ending war that followed. Nixon didn't help the situation either! Kennedey can hardly be held accountable for how the Vietnam war was handled.
Kennedey was not a war president. Instead of using the military industrial complex to float the US economy, like many presidents, he used NASA. This gave the people a goal and boosted the nations pride without having to stomp on a smaller nation. If the US spent half of the military budget on NASA our world would look far different. Science and technology have shown their ability to create massive wealth and prosperity. Look at what a tech focus did for the Clinton era. Let's revive the NASA era. Afterall we only have a few billion years left before this rock is engulfed by the sun. Possibly less than one hundred years before our lust with war obliterates our home.
...and yet, countless movies are available for download before they even hit the big screen.
That's because movie distributors send out hundreds of 'screener' copies so reviews can be out before the movie. Reviewers rip the DVDs and post them up to the net. Also, people sneaking video cameras into test audience screenings was a problem until they started patting people down and using infra-red to detect cameras in the theatres.
I agree with your commenst for the most part. Stealing a game is illegal and in the US, stealing music is no different. However, I have never heard of a person who has hacked a record labels servers and distributed rough tracks of an upcoming album. Theft from the public domain is one thing, but hacking in to private systems to steal digital property is something much worse in my mind.
That's not true at all. The only section of Canada that is dominated by French is Quebec (85%) and they don't even want to be a part of Canada... That's a whole other issue though. In fact most provinces have less than 5% French speaking citizens. Especially out west, we have less than 2% french speaking citizens. Your statement is like me saying that everyone in the US speaks with a spanish accent.
Here's some census in fo for you.
1996 Census info on Language
I have a locked down workstation at work, but luckily i can still use a tabbed broswer! Firefox has an installation free release of firefox. You can simply unzip it to a folder on your computer or even network storage and run it from the single .exe. No installation required!
It's maybe not the end of the world, but the transit of venus is significant to occultists! The next transit happens in 2012, during this time the sync'd orbits of venus and earth form a pentagram.
Graphic Here
... this will be a long remembered day in the history of the personal computers.
Remember the ambient orb?
Thinkgeek used to sell them, but I couldn't think of something I would find it useful for. This would be perfect. Just have a globe on your desktop that changes colors based on the data provided by the cube matrix. If the orb starts turning crimson, you know that that your network is in need of administrative attention.
I first heard baout it when it showed up in the kernel config menu. i wasn't sure what it was so I left it alone. To this day I've never quite understood what it did. I gather it was for hardening the kernel? I can't say I'm going to miss it since I never saw any use for it.
"th second stage of commissioning will commence"
I believe he meant "the" second stage... The editors don't correct simple mistakes like this?