>Larger discs have more rotational inertia and require more power to spin.
Get the new 3" Philips expanium when it comes out and enjoy the benefits of a smaller disc on battery life. Plus you can burn at 80x (or more) audio speed, rather than the pathetic 1/5x (or less) of audio speed that most minidisc does. (ie: If you use a compression method that uses 1/5 the space for the same music, burning the compressed music at 10x would be 50x faster than.wav. Since most minidisc uses SPDIF due to SCMS to copy, your compression actually causes your burn speed to be worse as you burn 1/5 less data to the MD than if you were writing the pure data during the length of the audio).
Oh, and enjoy a format that can play in millions of computers everywhere. And don't forget that CDRs will be around for a long time, whereas MDs will only exist while Sony is in business.
When the 3" portables come around, MD has nothing over 256 kbps MP3.
That is wrong. Gold conducts worse than copper. No matter what any idiot at Circuit City tells you, you cannot defeat physics. The only metal I know of that actually does conduct better than copper is silver.
If you want the _most_ ultimate cable, it will be made of silver. Too bad most audiophiles think $100 OFC cables are better, because they're wrong. Of course, because they are uninformed of the conductivity of metals, and because the people selling the cables are also mis-informed, you don't see Silver cables too often.
Anyways, the connectors are gold plated because gold doesn't corrode. They actually cause more sound degradation than you would get if you soldered some coax straight to the audio connectors on the device.
If the connectors are pure gold, you have a very crappy cable indeed.:)
>Quality ground braids are essential near a computer.
Yup. So make your own cable. You want the best?
Buy some bulk RG-6 satellilte TV cable. Get some RCA plugs (I suggest gold plated because you don't want corrosion!). Solder. The 75 Ohm impedance of RG-6 cable is perfectly compatible with audio cable.
Now you have the very best audio cable ever made.
Total cost: $0.20/ft for the cable, $6 total for the four connectors.
BTW: I use $2 el-cheapo cables because I don't have them near the computer, and because a 20 khz signal doesn't warrant anything better. YMMV.
Oh, and I use unsheilded cable for my computer's audio out (it's digital SPDIF out so it either works, works intermittently, or doesn't work at all. It sounds fine, but cuts out for a moment whenever the furnace turns on. Damn thing virtually outputs a mini EMP,).
I do, however, use RG-6 cable for the TV. When you start getting into Mhz, you must have better cable.
There are terms in the GPL that allow you to not accept the license, but continue to use the software under normal copyright (which is more restrictive, but still allows you to use it).
Because of the fact the GPL can be not accepted, yet you may still use the software, the license would be perfectly acceptable to put inside a box. The user has no right to expect anything but a copyrighted work in the box, and should they refuse to accept the GPL, that's what they get.
What really gets my goat are the ATI driver CDs that say "you must agree to the license before opening this package" when the license is inside, and underneath the CD so you can't even read it through the plastic window! Now that can't be legal...
>If I need to point out that Mozilla isn't half as standards-compliant as IE5.
I can find various websites that show Mozilla is better than IE5 at modern standards. I suppose if you want an old browser, then fine. If you want something modern then mozilla is your answer.
>I can tell you from daily experience that IE is the fastest, smallest (in terms of memory footprint), and most standards-compliant available for UNIX.
No, for Solaris. Find me the BSD port, AT&T port, and SCO port of IE if you want to say that.
>I guess you've never really had to write any markup
I write HTML no problem. Your problem is you aren't writing HTML, you must be writing Internet Explorer documents if they aren't working in anything else.
>BTW, I don't need xpdf or gs because there are plenty of alternatives and Windows land.
Yup, you can use Adobe Acrobat and not print stuff when the creator of the document tells you not to. And you can't edit the source because you can't get it. Oh, and you can't create pdf files.
Except if you fork out money. Money which you don't need to fork out if you use linux (or anything else that supports GNU software).
BTW: I'd like to know about what you use on windows to display and print postscript. That would be fun. Don't forget to mention the price tag and tell me how many times more expensive it is than ghostscript (better get that calculus going, because its going to be an infinite number).
>Once again, this is BS. Sorry, I thought this was a serious reply, but...
Tell me what you think is missing and I will prove it isn't. Unless you do that you're just trolling for pointlessness. I have better things to do than list applications for you.
There's no reason why you can't pop open a hex editor and make a program that way. Machine code ain't pretty, but someone had to do it at some point. The first assembler, for example, was made of machine code (well, I suppose one could write an assembler in C or any other language, but then that compiler would need to be written in machine code).
If source code is not provided, I think one could (if one were an idiot) assume that the binary is the source. But, IANAL.
He can hack up GPL code however he likes. You want to take a kernel binary and disassemble it? See if anybody complains. Since the code on that flash ROM is generally GPLed (and due to integration more than likely all the code is now) the company can't touch him.
Next thing you know, someone will sit outside my door and tell me I have to pay them $5 to get in my house or I'm breaking the law.
Then, after that, someone will argue I'm in trouble for not paying that guy his $5.
Of course, the guy _could_ have been in trouble if it turned out not to have included GPL software. In that case he probably wouldn't have posted to slashdot about his l33t hack, tho.
>I have to say, honestly, "What good is free speech if you're DEAD?"
Which brings me to ask, what good is being alive without freedom?
I'd trade my life for essential freedoms. My ancestors did it, and so would I. It might be irrational to give one's life up to ensure others have a better life, but them's the breaks.
I don't consider myself a hothead. I don't plan to go waiving my ideas about the heads of the uninterested. But I will certainly make them heard when I enter a discussion on the matter.
BTW: Where are all these nuts waving free speech stickers about you? Or is that some strange American thing (coming from Canada, I've never actually seen people get particularly worked up about free speech -- not that we have it as much as you [once?] did).
I beg to differ, unless you have another way to associate with someone on the other side of the country in a timely fashion. [Having things done in a timely fashion is also an essential liberty outlined by the requirement of a timely trial in American law]. Telephones, the most used, and most preferred (in fact, today the de facto) method of communication in the USA are electronic. You are very much more likely to strike up an interesting dialog with someone today by giving them your phone number rather than your home address. (Actually, many in the US feel unsafe about giving their home address to strangers, whereas a phone number provides better communication without the risk.)
Writing letters on paper doesn't work -- by the time the letter has reached the recipient in today's world interest in the matter has already feigned beyond making it particularly interesting (or to some degreee, useful) to read.
That is, unless it's one of those "Hows the weather, blah blah blah" kind of messages, and not something particularly thought provoking...
Letters are specially protected from anyone but the recipient opening them because at the time of the laws being written, they were the most popular, and de facto method of communication. Now, again the phone is, and email is rapidly catching up (that is, if it hasn't already surpassed phone use). They should be protected in the same manner as written letters, IMHO.
>and I'm not going to pretend that GNOME and Linux offer greater productivity just because some rabid script kiddie thinks otherwise.
That's why I don't use windows. I don't think interfaces that warez d00dz find 3l33t too appealing either.
>I can surf the WWW with the best browser available
So can I, mozilla is offered on both unix and windows.
>I can play any game I want
If you want games buy a game machine. Your wallet, your SO, and friends will appreciate it. Jeez, next thing you know they'll be installing toasters inside refrigerators.
>and install any PC hardware/software and be guaranteed of compatability.
I think you mean that you can install any windows hardware/software you want. I'd like to see you get MPlayer for linux going on your machine with SDL extensions (it's faster than WiMP). Or give gatos-ati a shot.
>And anyone who tells you that Windows is unstable hasn't used NT -- probably can't afford it, writing free software and all.;-)
I also find the OS itself reasonanbly stable. It just isn't very good about protecting itself from poorly written code. So yes, if you want to run NotePad and Calculator at the same time its great. But if you write some sloppy code its going to play hell with the OS (I could prove this many times over -- video drivers that totally lock up the machine are a great example). Linux, on the other hand, doesn't allow code in userland (as opposed to rootland) to beat the hell out of the OS (Sure X might freeze your video, but you can always get into your box other ways and shut it down properly).
Is sloppy code MSs fault? No. Should they write an OS that protects itself from it? Yes. Most especially yes when the OS is marketed for people with the IQ of a Garden Gnome.
>I have a UNIX command line on my NT box. The best of both worlds.
Wow. I guess you really are set then. You have 1/20th of the OS so you really must have everything you'll ever need. I guess you'll never need any of the other common utils, like gs, xpdf, or anything else.
When I install Slackware+KDE I get 100% of the applications windows comes with, plus a bunch of extras.
>And when Win2k was first released, many of these morons thought, "Hey, 2000 is bigger than 98, it must be better!"
...caused mostly by MS marketing the OS to these people. They mentioned many times that 2000 would be the only upgrade path after Win 98. Which became Win ME. Which became defeat with Win XP. You can't blame people for trusting MS, can you? Well, maybe I can, but you sure can't.
>My theory is that, because NT is [superficially] easier to admin than UNIX, a greated percentage of NT admins are clueless fucktards who shouldn't be allowed within 25 miles of a networked computer.:-)
Superficially. Ain't that the truth. After you get past the shiny outside you find a box full of unlabeled wires. It'd take a PhD to perfectly configure IIS.
This is perfect open-source area. Here's how it works:
Instead of paying Quicken $30 a year for a new version of quicken, you (and a bunch of others) send $30 to a Canadian tax-understanding & open-source programmer guy and get the plugin made for you. Then you can either work on that base, or pay for updates to it.
It's how software should be made. You pay for what you want, tailord to how you use it, rather than paying for a pre-fab package full of useless, slow, junk.
If I were a decent programmer and a tax guy I'd be starting a side-venture doing this right now!
It takes a while for the Japanese games to be translated to english, and even longer for new English games to be made.
That and Nintendo probably has their factories running full tilt to just satisfy Japanese demand right now. Adding in NA might cause another Sony-Style mislaunch of the product.
Power in Japan is 100v, 60 or 50 Hz, and uses NA-style plugs. Very little would be needed to adapt it to handle our 120v system. Likely nothing would need changing at all.
Check here for all your international power questions.
Actually, if we are going to thank anyone for our freedom and ideals, it should be the country that gave them to us, England.
The country you separated from. The country you once fled. We are infact the country you once fought (with good reason at times). We were once England. We shall continue as the free dominion called Canada. We will not be Americans. We don't want to be and we have repeatedly explained that to you.
Please don't think this means we all despise you.
We thank America for their kindness and generosity in their defense of our country, even though we understand it comes with the requirement we remain attached to your country. We thank America for all the time it selflessly helped us through natural disasters like our ice storm. We thank America for dealing so well with a country that has so many people from so many cultures that there are the minority who may dislike your country. We thank America for their freedom of trade with our country, and for the kindness of your citizens when we visit you.
Even after the wars, albeit so very long ago, we like you. We'd rather be good neighbours with you than any other country. And that's as far as we both want to take it, and as far as we should if we want to keep our cultures and ideals separate.
Just please appreciate one thing: Don't tell us you gave us freedom. You must know you didn't. England did when they formed this nation, and they did it again when they set us free from their country. That's why we celebrate Dominion Day (its real name until our release from Britain in 1982) on July 1st, and Victoria Day on May 24. It's an honour to the country that truly gave us our Freedom.
Millions of Canadians feel sorry for your tragic loss, and we are willing to do what it takes to help you bring the most peaceful and lasting resolution to your tragedy.
>If you would just watch him rape your daughter rather than shoot him, you are a monster.
I wouldn't. I would find a different method of stopping the criminal that didn't involve killing. I place a higher value on human life than what you might think. I wouldn't be adverse to hurting the criminal, just adverse to killing him (wounds heal, death doesn't).
People here just don't seem to understand the toll taking another life has on the non-criminal mind.
Not even the self commited nut desprately trying to get help that I described?
How could you know the rapist's history before you shot him? Sure, chances are you'll get lucky and find out he's a serial rapist. Or you might not.
Speaking about russion roulette, that involves guns too.
>Not everybody shares your particularly kind set of values.
I notice that -- slashdot really does open your eyes to the world of hatred out there. People calling people from the Middle East dogs, turban heads, whatever. An amazing whack of people saying that killing some citizens from Middle Eastern countries will ease the pain.
Please don't take that as a personal attack -- The only thing you've suggested is that you hate rapists enough to kill them, who fortunately aren't innocent cvilians. But its still hate, none-the-less.
I'll agree though, I also hate rapists. Just not enough to kill them. Actually, I don't hate anyone enough to kill them. Thinking like that would keep me up at night.:-/
Fortunately the less kind among us has never been in power in free countries like the US long enough to change the system to their ideals.
I take from that statement middle eastern militants are, infact, rabid dogs that need to be put down?
Is there any wonder why these people hate you enough to blow you up? I wouldn't appreciate being called a rabid dog. Not that I'd kill over it, but then again, I'm not everyone.
Your statements are the exact reason why victims are not allowed to sentence their agressors.
You cannot be rational about a situation when personally involved. I've had arguments with peolpe that left me wanting to punch the hell out of the other person (never did it though). Is that right?
Hell no.
Is it right for the raper to be shot?
Hell no. No matter how much you hate them.
You'll notice the law agrees with me. The only two reasons (that I know of) in which an agressor can be killed due to their actions are:
- If they threaten life (rape is close, but not there).
- If you can use the battered wife syndrome excuse (not applicable in this situation).
There's other reasons *(maybe, depends where you live)* but most countries don't want vigilantees.
Yes. I said it. Vigilatism. The most childish and immature act possible.
The proper course of action would be to beat the hell out of the agressor, or find some other method of stopping them that doesn't kill them (tazer, stunner, tranquilizer darts [unlikely]).
Situations aren't as black and white as the extremists among us would say. You don't just have the choices of kill or saying hello. You can stop the situation with force, among a myriad of other non-deadly options (police, neighbours, heck -- the fact the rapist knows there's another man about is more than likely going to scare them off -- most rape isn't about the sex, it's about having power over women. That power is gone when another man gets involved).
For all you know that rapist is an escapee from a mental hospital who voluntarialy committed themselves last month whose treatment wasn't administered properly. And you want them dead?
Your suggestion is as pathetic an excuse for murder as I have ever heard.
I would rather die having not killed others than die having done so. To think otherwise is grossly uninformed.
If you think life is worth living after killing, you haven't killed. Ask a cop about this. Chances are they can give you a story of an ex-cop who is a nervous wreck after gunning someone down who threatened their life. Either that or the killer is a cold-blooded murderer lacking respect for life. No matter how much you hate someone, they are still human life. I'm sure the cop hated the person who tried to kill them, but I could find you examples of cops in the situation I describe who are in counselling for it right now.
Come back and say what you've said after you've killed. Tell us it is as easy as you say.
Video already compresses surprisingly better than any audio format I know of.
For example, take a 10 second clip of 640x480 24-bit, RGB, 29.97 fps video (no audio). The math sez its:
640 x 480 x 3 x 29.97 x 10 = 263.41 MB (approx).
Yet 10 seconds of 10 Mbits MPEG-2 video (very high quality) takes up just 10 Megabytes of space. That's a compression ratio of over 26:1!
Over a 28.8kbps modem over the internet we are looking at about 2.6kbps of data (headers and other overhead removed). This means the above 263 MB video is supposed to compress down to less than (don't forget about the sound!) 26 k. That's a compression ratio of 10374:1!
I can believe a leap of 10x, *maybe* 50x. But a leap of 400x is just something I have to try on my own terms before I believe it.
The answer is simple. Since you can't change the laws, you should prove them wrong.
Put together a new party. You'll probably need to be nominated to find a few other friends with your view.
Call it the "Non-Voters" party. Make your mandate, in the unlikely event you are elected, to immediately step down from government and allow whoever was the runner-up to take your seat.
On election day you'll be able to see how many apathetic votes there are. If you have a high-enough number then you have a case to get the law repealed.
Just an idea. A pretty low-effort one too. Shouldn't take you more than a few minutes to show your nomination forms and be added to the ballot.
>Should I be fined for not showing up?
In my country (Canada) many non-violent, non-destructive torts can be repealed if you can claim the defence of necessity. I think explaining to the judge that you were too tired to safely make it to the polling booth would be an acceptable defence of necessity. The risk of losing your primary income / education could also be a defence of necessity (with secondary implications for the company forcing you to work, or the school forcing you to be at school).
Legal disclaimer: IANAL, so take all that with a grain of salt.
That's usually a tactic for the underdog or knockoff artist.
IE: The competitor has a better product (or similar but better marketed), so you try to make your product look like the competitors.
Real life example: Company XYZ makes makes some nice cologne and calls it Rouge #1. You also sell cologne that's similar, but doesn't enjoy the same market share. So what are you to do?
Sell your cologne as "just likeRouge #1". And you make sure the competitor's name stands out more than yours, just as I did.
The question I beg to ask is if AMD is willing to be associated with washroom vending machines.
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>Larger discs have more rotational inertia and require more power to spin.
.wav. Since most minidisc uses SPDIF due to SCMS to copy, your compression actually causes your burn speed to be worse as you burn 1/5 less data to the MD than if you were writing the pure data during the length of the audio).
Get the new 3" Philips expanium when it comes out and enjoy the benefits of a smaller disc on battery life. Plus you can burn at 80x (or more) audio speed, rather than the pathetic 1/5x (or less) of audio speed that most minidisc does. (ie: If you use a compression method that uses 1/5 the space for the same music, burning the compressed music at 10x would be 50x faster than
Oh, and enjoy a format that can play in millions of computers everywhere. And don't forget that CDRs will be around for a long time, whereas MDs will only exist while Sony is in business.
When the 3" portables come around, MD has nothing over 256 kbps MP3.
>gold can conduct electricity better than copper.
:)
That is wrong. Gold conducts worse than copper. No matter what any idiot at Circuit City tells you, you cannot defeat physics. The only metal I know of that actually does conduct better than copper is silver.
If you want the _most_ ultimate cable, it will be made of silver. Too bad most audiophiles think $100 OFC cables are better, because they're wrong. Of course, because they are uninformed of the conductivity of metals, and because the people selling the cables are also mis-informed, you don't see Silver cables too often.
Anyways, the connectors are gold plated because gold doesn't corrode. They actually cause more sound degradation than you would get if you soldered some coax straight to the audio connectors on the device.
If the connectors are pure gold, you have a very crappy cable indeed.
>Quality ground braids are essential near a computer.
Yup. So make your own cable. You want the best?
Buy some bulk RG-6 satellilte TV cable. Get some RCA plugs (I suggest gold plated because you don't want corrosion!). Solder. The 75 Ohm impedance of RG-6 cable is perfectly compatible with audio cable.
Now you have the very best audio cable ever made.
Total cost: $0.20/ft for the cable, $6 total for the four connectors.
BTW: I use $2 el-cheapo cables because I don't have them near the computer, and because a 20 khz signal doesn't warrant anything better. YMMV.
Oh, and I use unsheilded cable for my computer's audio out (it's digital SPDIF out so it either works, works intermittently, or doesn't work at all. It sounds fine, but cuts out for a moment whenever the furnace turns on. Damn thing virtually outputs a mini EMP,).
I do, however, use RG-6 cable for the TV. When you start getting into Mhz, you must have better cable.
There are terms in the GPL that allow you to not accept the license, but continue to use the software under normal copyright (which is more restrictive, but still allows you to use it).
Because of the fact the GPL can be not accepted, yet you may still use the software, the license would be perfectly acceptable to put inside a box. The user has no right to expect anything but a copyrighted work in the box, and should they refuse to accept the GPL, that's what they get.
What really gets my goat are the ATI driver CDs that say "you must agree to the license before opening this package" when the license is inside, and underneath the CD so you can't even read it through the plastic window! Now that can't be legal...
>If I need to point out that Mozilla isn't half as standards-compliant as IE5.
I can find various websites that show Mozilla is better than IE5 at modern standards. I suppose if you want an old browser, then fine. If you want something modern then mozilla is your answer.
>I can tell you from daily experience that IE is the fastest, smallest (in terms of memory footprint), and most standards-compliant available for UNIX.
No, for Solaris. Find me the BSD port, AT&T port, and SCO port of IE if you want to say that.
>I guess you've never really had to write any markup
I write HTML no problem. Your problem is you aren't writing HTML, you must be writing Internet Explorer documents if they aren't working in anything else.
>BTW, I don't need xpdf or gs because there are plenty of alternatives and Windows land.
Yup, you can use Adobe Acrobat and not print stuff when the creator of the document tells you not to. And you can't edit the source because you can't get it. Oh, and you can't create pdf files.
Except if you fork out money. Money which you don't need to fork out if you use linux (or anything else that supports GNU software).
BTW: I'd like to know about what you use on windows to display and print postscript. That would be fun. Don't forget to mention the price tag and tell me how many times more expensive it is than ghostscript (better get that calculus going, because its going to be an infinite number).
>Once again, this is BS. Sorry, I thought this was a serious reply, but...
Tell me what you think is missing and I will prove it isn't. Unless you do that you're just trolling for pointlessness. I have better things to do than list applications for you.
A binary can be source.
There's no reason why you can't pop open a hex editor and make a program that way. Machine code ain't pretty, but someone had to do it at some point. The first assembler, for example, was made of machine code (well, I suppose one could write an assembler in C or any other language, but then that compiler would need to be written in machine code).
If source code is not provided, I think one could (if one were an idiot) assume that the binary is the source. But, IANAL.
Sorry dude but that argument is way off base.
He can hack up GPL code however he likes. You want to take a kernel binary and disassemble it? See if anybody complains. Since the code on that flash ROM is generally GPLed (and due to integration more than likely all the code is now) the company can't touch him.
Next thing you know, someone will sit outside my door and tell me I have to pay them $5 to get in my house or I'm breaking the law.
Then, after that, someone will argue I'm in trouble for not paying that guy his $5.
Of course, the guy _could_ have been in trouble if it turned out not to have included GPL software. In that case he probably wouldn't have posted to slashdot about his l33t hack, tho.
>I have to say, honestly, "What good is free speech if you're DEAD?"
Which brings me to ask, what good is being alive without freedom?
I'd trade my life for essential freedoms. My ancestors did it, and so would I. It might be irrational to give one's life up to ensure others have a better life, but them's the breaks.
I don't consider myself a hothead. I don't plan to go waiving my ideas about the heads of the uninterested. But I will certainly make them heard when I enter a discussion on the matter.
BTW: Where are all these nuts waving free speech stickers about you? Or is that some strange American thing (coming from Canada, I've never actually seen people get particularly worked up about free speech -- not that we have it as much as you [once?] did).
>Is using electronic communications? No.
I beg to differ, unless you have another way to associate with someone on the other side of the country in a timely fashion. [Having things done in a timely fashion is also an essential liberty outlined by the requirement of a timely trial in American law]. Telephones, the most used, and most preferred (in fact, today the de facto) method of communication in the USA are electronic. You are very much more likely to strike up an interesting dialog with someone today by giving them your phone number rather than your home address. (Actually, many in the US feel unsafe about giving their home address to strangers, whereas a phone number provides better communication without the risk.)
Writing letters on paper doesn't work -- by the time the letter has reached the recipient in today's world interest in the matter has already feigned beyond making it particularly interesting (or to some degreee, useful) to read.
That is, unless it's one of those "Hows the weather, blah blah blah" kind of messages, and not something particularly thought provoking...
Letters are specially protected from anyone but the recipient opening them because at the time of the laws being written, they were the most popular, and de facto method of communication. Now, again the phone is, and email is rapidly catching up (that is, if it hasn't already surpassed phone use). They should be protected in the same manner as written letters, IMHO.
Just a thought.
I'm in a punchy mood too. :-)
;-)
:-)
>and I'm not going to pretend that GNOME and Linux offer greater productivity just because some rabid script kiddie thinks otherwise.
That's why I don't use windows. I don't think interfaces that warez d00dz find 3l33t too appealing either.
>I can surf the WWW with the best browser available
So can I, mozilla is offered on both unix and windows.
>I can play any game I want
If you want games buy a game machine. Your wallet, your SO, and friends will appreciate it. Jeez, next thing you know they'll be installing toasters inside refrigerators.
>and install any PC hardware/software and be guaranteed of compatability.
I think you mean that you can install any windows hardware/software you want. I'd like to see you get MPlayer for linux going on your machine with SDL extensions (it's faster than WiMP). Or give gatos-ati a shot.
>And anyone who tells you that Windows is unstable hasn't used NT -- probably can't afford it, writing free software and all.
I also find the OS itself reasonanbly stable. It just isn't very good about protecting itself from poorly written code. So yes, if you want to run NotePad and Calculator at the same time its great. But if you write some sloppy code its going to play hell with the OS (I could prove this many times over -- video drivers that totally lock up the machine are a great example). Linux, on the other hand, doesn't allow code in userland (as opposed to rootland) to beat the hell out of the OS (Sure X might freeze your video, but you can always get into your box other ways and shut it down properly).
Is sloppy code MSs fault? No. Should they write an OS that protects itself from it? Yes. Most especially yes when the OS is marketed for people with the IQ of a Garden Gnome.
>I have a UNIX command line on my NT box. The best of both worlds.
Wow. I guess you really are set then. You have 1/20th of the OS so you really must have everything you'll ever need. I guess you'll never need any of the other common utils, like gs, xpdf, or anything else.
When I install Slackware+KDE I get 100% of the applications windows comes with, plus a bunch of extras.
>And when Win2k was first released, many of these morons thought, "Hey, 2000 is bigger than 98, it must be better!"
...caused mostly by MS marketing the OS to these people. They mentioned many times that 2000 would be the only upgrade path after Win 98. Which became Win ME. Which became defeat with Win XP. You can't blame people for trusting MS, can you? Well, maybe I can, but you sure can't.
>My theory is that, because NT is [superficially] easier to admin than UNIX, a greated percentage of NT admins are clueless fucktards who shouldn't be allowed within 25 miles of a networked computer.
Superficially. Ain't that the truth. After you get past the shiny outside you find a box full of unlabeled wires. It'd take a PhD to perfectly configure IIS.
Just my 2 cents.
This is perfect open-source area. Here's how it works:
Instead of paying Quicken $30 a year for a new version of quicken, you (and a bunch of others) send $30 to a Canadian tax-understanding & open-source programmer guy and get the plugin made for you. Then you can either work on that base, or pay for updates to it.
It's how software should be made. You pay for what you want, tailord to how you use it, rather than paying for a pre-fab package full of useless, slow, junk.
If I were a decent programmer and a tax guy I'd be starting a side-venture doing this right now!
>What I want is for ('them' - The Gov't) to be able to monitor things, so that the bad guys go where they need to go.
Why don't you put your words into action and promise us you will add president@whitehouse.gov as a cc: in all your future correspondance?
It takes a while for the Japanese games to be translated to english, and even longer for new English games to be made.
That and Nintendo probably has their factories running full tilt to just satisfy Japanese demand right now. Adding in NA might cause another Sony-Style mislaunch of the product.
Power in Japan is 100v, 60 or 50 Hz, and uses NA-style plugs. Very little would be needed to adapt it to handle our 120v system. Likely nothing would need changing at all.
Check here for all your international power questions.
Actually, if we are going to thank anyone for our freedom and ideals, it should be the country that gave them to us, England.
The country you separated from. The country you once fled. We are infact the country you once fought (with good reason at times). We were once England. We shall continue as the free dominion called Canada. We will not be Americans. We don't want to be and we have repeatedly explained that to you.
Please don't think this means we all despise you.
We thank America for their kindness and generosity in their defense of our country, even though we understand it comes with the requirement we remain attached to your country. We thank America for all the time it selflessly helped us through natural disasters like our ice storm. We thank America for dealing so well with a country that has so many people from so many cultures that there are the minority who may dislike your country. We thank America for their freedom of trade with our country, and for the kindness of your citizens when we visit you.
Even after the wars, albeit so very long ago, we like you. We'd rather be good neighbours with you than any other country. And that's as far as we both want to take it, and as far as we should if we want to keep our cultures and ideals separate.
Just please appreciate one thing: Don't tell us you gave us freedom. You must know you didn't. England did when they formed this nation, and they did it again when they set us free from their country. That's why we celebrate Dominion Day (its real name until our release from Britain in 1982) on July 1st, and Victoria Day on May 24. It's an honour to the country that truly gave us our Freedom.
Millions of Canadians feel sorry for your tragic loss, and we are willing to do what it takes to help you bring the most peaceful and lasting resolution to your tragedy.
>You're insane!
No, you are.
>If you would just watch him rape your daughter rather than shoot him, you are a monster.
I wouldn't. I would find a different method of stopping the criminal that didn't involve killing. I place a higher value on human life than what you might think. I wouldn't be adverse to hurting the criminal, just adverse to killing him (wounds heal, death doesn't).
People here just don't seem to understand the toll taking another life has on the non-criminal mind.
>Not everybody deserves life.
:-/
Not even the self commited nut desprately trying to get help that I described?
How could you know the rapist's history before you shot him? Sure, chances are you'll get lucky and find out he's a serial rapist. Or you might not.
Speaking about russion roulette, that involves guns too.
>Not everybody shares your particularly kind set of values.
I notice that -- slashdot really does open your eyes to the world of hatred out there. People calling people from the Middle East dogs, turban heads, whatever. An amazing whack of people saying that killing some citizens from Middle Eastern countries will ease the pain.
Please don't take that as a personal attack -- The only thing you've suggested is that you hate rapists enough to kill them, who fortunately aren't innocent cvilians. But its still hate, none-the-less.
I'll agree though, I also hate rapists. Just not enough to kill them. Actually, I don't hate anyone enough to kill them. Thinking like that would keep me up at night.
Fortunately the less kind among us has never been in power in free countries like the US long enough to change the system to their ideals.
I take from that statement middle eastern militants are, infact, rabid dogs that need to be put down?
Is there any wonder why these people hate you enough to blow you up? I wouldn't appreciate being called a rabid dog. Not that I'd kill over it, but then again, I'm not everyone.
>Anything less is a failure to protect our way of life.
When did the American way of life become a life of constant fear of terrorism and the instant destruction of anyone suspected to disagree with us?
I always thought the American way of life was Freedom, Life, Liberty, and Justice for All. There can be no justice for those who are dead.
Your statements are the exact reason why victims are not allowed to sentence their agressors.
You cannot be rational about a situation when personally involved. I've had arguments with peolpe that left me wanting to punch the hell out of the other person (never did it though). Is that right?
Hell no.
Is it right for the raper to be shot?
Hell no. No matter how much you hate them.
You'll notice the law agrees with me. The only two reasons (that I know of) in which an agressor can be killed due to their actions are:
- If they threaten life (rape is close, but not there).
- If you can use the battered wife syndrome excuse (not applicable in this situation).
There's other reasons *(maybe, depends where you live)* but most countries don't want vigilantees.
Yes. I said it. Vigilatism. The most childish and immature act possible.
The proper course of action would be to beat the hell out of the agressor, or find some other method of stopping them that doesn't kill them (tazer, stunner, tranquilizer darts [unlikely]).
Situations aren't as black and white as the extremists among us would say. You don't just have the choices of kill or saying hello. You can stop the situation with force, among a myriad of other non-deadly options (police, neighbours, heck -- the fact the rapist knows there's another man about is more than likely going to scare them off -- most rape isn't about the sex, it's about having power over women. That power is gone when another man gets involved).
For all you know that rapist is an escapee from a mental hospital who voluntarialy committed themselves last month whose treatment wasn't administered properly. And you want them dead?
Your suggestion is as pathetic an excuse for murder as I have ever heard.
I would rather die having not killed others than die having done so. To think otherwise is grossly uninformed.
If you think life is worth living after killing, you haven't killed. Ask a cop about this. Chances are they can give you a story of an ex-cop who is a nervous wreck after gunning someone down who threatened their life. Either that or the killer is a cold-blooded murderer lacking respect for life. No matter how much you hate someone, they are still human life. I'm sure the cop hated the person who tried to kill them, but I could find you examples of cops in the situation I describe who are in counselling for it right now.
Come back and say what you've said after you've killed. Tell us it is as easy as you say.
I think you won't and I think it isn't.
Don't worry, it's only history repeating:
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"There's only room in the market for one or two of those kinds of companies" -AC describing Cygnus, 2001
Video already compresses surprisingly better than any audio format I know of.
For example, take a 10 second clip of 640x480 24-bit, RGB, 29.97 fps video (no audio). The math sez its:
640 x 480 x 3 x 29.97 x 10 = 263.41 MB (approx).
Yet 10 seconds of 10 Mbits MPEG-2 video (very high quality) takes up just 10 Megabytes of space. That's a compression ratio of over 26:1!
Over a 28.8kbps modem over the internet we are looking at about 2.6kbps of data (headers and other overhead removed). This means the above 263 MB video is supposed to compress down to less than (don't forget about the sound!) 26 k. That's a compression ratio of 10374:1!
I can believe a leap of 10x, *maybe* 50x. But a leap of 400x is just something I have to try on my own terms before I believe it.
...Doing something about it?
The answer is simple. Since you can't change the laws, you should prove them wrong.
Put together a new party. You'll probably need to be nominated to find a few other friends with your view.
Call it the "Non-Voters" party. Make your mandate, in the unlikely event you are elected, to immediately step down from government and allow whoever was the runner-up to take your seat.
On election day you'll be able to see how many apathetic votes there are. If you have a high-enough number then you have a case to get the law repealed.
Just an idea. A pretty low-effort one too. Shouldn't take you more than a few minutes to show your nomination forms and be added to the ballot.
>Should I be fined for not showing up?
In my country (Canada) many non-violent, non-destructive torts can be repealed if you can claim the defence of necessity. I think explaining to the judge that you were too tired to safely make it to the polling booth would be an acceptable defence of necessity. The risk of losing your primary income / education could also be a defence of necessity (with secondary implications for the company forcing you to work, or the school forcing you to be at school).
Legal disclaimer: IANAL, so take all that with a grain of salt.
That's usually a tactic for the underdog or knockoff artist.
IE: The competitor has a better product (or similar but better marketed), so you try to make your product look like the competitors.
Real life example: Company XYZ makes makes some nice cologne and calls it Rouge #1. You also sell cologne that's similar, but doesn't enjoy the same market share. So what are you to do?
Sell your cologne as "just like Rouge #1". And you make sure the competitor's name stands out more than yours, just as I did.
The question I beg to ask is if AMD is willing to be associated with washroom vending machines.
>Then go to corel, hire away their best people in that dept, and they have it all. No 2mill spent
Nope. Check these things they would have going against them:
- Non-Compete agreements for the workers.
- Some workers might not be willing to work with a company taking over by force.
- Trademark infringement.
They could, however, download it, call it another name, and hire all new programmers.
Re-Training programmers isn't cheap, and losing the Corel "mindshare" isn't going to come cheap either.
IMHO, They got a bargain at 2 mil.
A talented teacher who needed money wouldn't be looking for a new career, IMHO. They'd be looking for a better paying job in teaching elsewhere.