Just a note.. Low end Sennheisers blow ass. You're better off with just some Koss headphones than a pair of $50 Sennheisers. Their $200 headphones are phenomenal, but their cheaper cans leave something to be desired. In that price range, the Grado SR60s rule all anyway, so screw the cheap Sennheisers.:)
Actually you can ship pretty much anything except the lower reciever to a gun without any sort of permit. For example, I can ship an entire M16 through the mail, no questions asked -- though it can't have the lower reciever (and thus is not a functioning weapon.) To ship a lower reciever you have to do it through someone with a license (normally a gun shop.)
Here in Texas, you can walk down the street with a loaded automatic rifle and so long as you legally own the gun, nobody can do anything about it. Though if you point it at someone, that's considered a threatening action and is illegal. Oh, and it's legal to shoot a robber in the back as he flees from your house. So don't rob my place if you don't wanna get shot.;)
Do you really think anyone reading slashdot cares enough about episode 3 to not want spoilers? I really think a lot of/.ers are hoping, praying for a reason to even see episode 3. I don't have very high hopes for episode 3, but I'd really WANT it to be good. I just know it's going to suck.
Though you've gotta give it to Lucas. Episode 1 and 2 made me start to hate the first 3 movies.
Light saber accident? Too quick and painless. Hey, I know, Chewie could lock him up in a torture chamber with a revolver, a box of ammunition, and episode 1 and 2 playing on a TV behind bulletproof glass. When suicide eventually comes, he will hate himself more than any of us can possibly imagine.
Artists have been producing works on non-traditional mediums for the past century. I guess to show us in their condescending, I'm-better-than-you-because-I-am-an-artist way that art is everywhere. So why not HTML, or hey, what about flash?
Yeah, only the full quality version isn't available yet.:) So I'll have this till the DVD comes out, and then I'll just have the DVD (easier than connecting my computer to my TV anyway) so I won't have to worry about anything.
Have the exact same screener on DIVX. Take up 3 CDs, so I'd say that's about right for a DVD. Crappy sound though, so I'm still buying it on DVD cos I lubbz my 5.1.
Yeah.. Until you realize that Mount Fuji is a VOLCANO, having last erupted in 1707. Somehow, I don't think sending a 3 megaton blast to the center of this thing is a good idea.. You may get rid the mountain, but the resulting volcanic explosion would probably dwarf the bomb you just sent in there, wiping out the entire island. All in a day's work.
We Americans are too quick to assign blame. Hell, we didn't even know anything was wrong, so how can it be anyone's fault? Yes, some horrible consequences can result even if everyone involves carries the very noblest intentions and has no real hand in the matter. So the most we can really do from them is learn from them so they don't happen again. There is nowhere to blame here, which seems to be scaring some people. Get over it, it was an accident. More people die in car accidents in a day, and probably suffer a lot more than these people, whose bodies were incinerated in about.5 seconds anyway, but they were already dead because the rapid depressurization of the cabin caused their blood to look like a can of Coke. Death really doesn't come more instant and painless than that. Blame nobody and look to the future.
What Apple seems to be doing is taking all the really good ideas that came out of the dot-com era (p2p, home media creation, etc) and making them marketable and usable. All these great things we've been promised (home burning of DVDs, the iPod, internet purchase of music, the "computer of the future") have been what Apple is delivering. They basically make products that are almost sci-fi cool. Except they're real and you can buy them now if you can afford them. Apple's big thing is the "digital lifestyle," the iPod was only the first step (and why you keep hearing rumors of Apple branded cell phones and PDAs) Apple, while not free computing, gives me exactly the kind of things I want without sacrificing the cool little touches (lots of blue blinky LEDS on a rackmount server? woo) that make Apple's stuff REALLY cool. You have to use OS X for a good period of time before you realize exactly how much thought went into making things work the way they do, but once you do, it's like "Wow, that makes sense, why didn't I think of that?" It looks cool, it's powerful as all hell, yet easy enough for a child to use. Apple makes products for the masses, but they leave enough power under the hood for us geeks to tinker with. That's something hard to do.:)
So therefore, OS X is dying. Do not waste your money and time on such a tool of Great Satan. OS X is not on this computer, in fact it is 200 miles from my computer and its manual is burning in hell.. It's so easy to use it doesn't HAVE a manual to burn? Pah! I hit OS X with my shoe. Take THAT!
Well, frankly if Apple's service signs the other 4 major labels and not Universal, it will probably be very successful, and Microsoft would be castrating Universal if they didn't sign as well. Like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I don't see Microsoft being able to put down control (in the form of DRM) long enough to make anything they'd offer desirable to the public. Microsoft is starting to remind me a LOT of Disney now, with their goals of control and power over profit. Guess that's what happens when you have $50 billion just sitting there.
Americans? Terrorists? No! Nevermind that US special forces often engage in "covert warfare" that is eerily reminiscant of terrorism (car bombs, assassinations, etc.) except we don't see it in the news here because it doesn't officially involve americans.
You're right, there are better reasons why those are bad. More like they're EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN by the constitution. Neat trick they pulled though, you can't challenge the PATRIOT act as unconstitutional because you're effectively tried by secret tribunal.. i.e. no way for it to get to the supreme court to be ruled unconstitutional.
Nah, skate movies are just bad because of the repeated head injuries suffered by those making them. "Look ma, I'm gonna throw a misty off a ramp and over some stairs!" *crunch*
Star Ocean now works fine. It's even translated, though DeJap's page seems to be gone. So I'd say ZSNES is about 99.9999% compatible with the SNES, which is good enough for me.
Right, for smart people, high school is not fun. But it can and should be. The biggest mistake most smart people make is to think that everyone is cooler than them, which is really not the case.:) Hell, band geeks are definitely not cool but you can still have a blast with them and they're usually nice people. Theater geeks are only mildly cooler and they're fucking crazy (plus theater politics is a lot like business politics.) Social development (the subtle things, like learning how to read people) is more important that some crappy job. It'll get you a lot further in life than a part time sysadmin job.
Um.. Let's put it this way.. The rich can only buy so many cars and yachts and things. An economy will only grow if people are buying things. Yes, the rich will probably invest this extra money back into the economy, but that really doesn't matter much. You can have all the investment in the world, but unless you're producing a good or service and selling it to someone, you're not really making money (the dot-com era is a perfect example of this.) You basically want spending to increase. It's nice if investment increases as well, but you don't generate wealth unless people spend money and recieve something tangible in return.
Yeah. Someone's gonna give a high school kid a job when there are tons of college graduates who can't find them. Besides, high schoolers shouldn't be sysadmins anyway. Nobody takes you seriously, you can't work more than part-time hours and you should be doing better things with your time. It doesn't even help you on your resume. I speak from experience here (I had a sysadmin job for 2 years in high school) and now I really wish I hadn't. Don't be in such a hurry to grow up, you might miss all the fun you were supposed to have in high school. Carpe diem, go out and get laid or smoke weed or something. Don't wish you were sitting in an office typing on a computer; you'll have plenty of time to do that for the next 50 years of your life.
Seeing as streaming video is BUILT IN to most media players/codecs, this is gonna get thrown out quick. Not to mention the idea of streaming video is probably 50 years old, what with those dreams of videophones and all..
Slashdot Mirror
Nevermind you don't need a username/e-mail to connect to Kazaa. Most people use an anonymous one.
Just a note.. Low end Sennheisers blow ass. You're better off with just some Koss headphones than a pair of $50 Sennheisers. Their $200 headphones are phenomenal, but their cheaper cans leave something to be desired. In that price range, the Grado SR60s rule all anyway, so screw the cheap Sennheisers. :)
Actually you can ship pretty much anything except the lower reciever to a gun without any sort of permit. For example, I can ship an entire M16 through the mail, no questions asked -- though it can't have the lower reciever (and thus is not a functioning weapon.) To ship a lower reciever you have to do it through someone with a license (normally a gun shop.)
;)
Here in Texas, you can walk down the street with a loaded automatic rifle and so long as you legally own the gun, nobody can do anything about it. Though if you point it at someone, that's considered a threatening action and is illegal. Oh, and it's legal to shoot a robber in the back as he flees from your house. So don't rob my place if you don't wanna get shot.
Do you really think anyone reading slashdot cares enough about episode 3 to not want spoilers? I really think a lot of /.ers are hoping, praying for a reason to even see episode 3. I don't have very high hopes for episode 3, but I'd really WANT it to be good. I just know it's going to suck.
Though you've gotta give it to Lucas. Episode 1 and 2 made me start to hate the first 3 movies.
Light saber accident? Too quick and painless. Hey, I know, Chewie could lock him up in a torture chamber with a revolver, a box of ammunition, and episode 1 and 2 playing on a TV behind bulletproof glass. When suicide eventually comes, he will hate himself more than any of us can possibly imagine.
Artists have been producing works on non-traditional mediums for the past century. I guess to show us in their condescending, I'm-better-than-you-because-I-am-an-artist way that art is everywhere. So why not HTML, or hey, what about flash?
Yeah, only the full quality version isn't available yet. :) So I'll have this till the DVD comes out, and then I'll just have the DVD (easier than connecting my computer to my TV anyway) so I won't have to worry about anything.
Have the exact same screener on DIVX. Take up 3 CDs, so I'd say that's about right for a DVD. Crappy sound though, so I'm still buying it on DVD cos I lubbz my 5.1.
On DivX though. ;) That said, I will be buying the DVD, if for nothing else than the surround sound. Good movie, can't wait for the third.
Yeah.. Until you realize that Mount Fuji is a VOLCANO, having last erupted in 1707. Somehow, I don't think sending a 3 megaton blast to the center of this thing is a good idea.. You may get rid the mountain, but the resulting volcanic explosion would probably dwarf the bomb you just sent in there, wiping out the entire island. All in a day's work.
We Americans are too quick to assign blame. Hell, we didn't even know anything was wrong, so how can it be anyone's fault? Yes, some horrible consequences can result even if everyone involves carries the very noblest intentions and has no real hand in the matter. So the most we can really do from them is learn from them so they don't happen again. There is nowhere to blame here, which seems to be scaring some people. Get over it, it was an accident. More people die in car accidents in a day, and probably suffer a lot more than these people, whose bodies were incinerated in about .5 seconds anyway, but they were already dead because the rapid depressurization of the cabin caused their blood to look like a can of Coke. Death really doesn't come more instant and painless than that. Blame nobody and look to the future.
What Apple seems to be doing is taking all the really good ideas that came out of the dot-com era (p2p, home media creation, etc) and making them marketable and usable. All these great things we've been promised (home burning of DVDs, the iPod, internet purchase of music, the "computer of the future") have been what Apple is delivering. They basically make products that are almost sci-fi cool. Except they're real and you can buy them now if you can afford them. Apple's big thing is the "digital lifestyle," the iPod was only the first step (and why you keep hearing rumors of Apple branded cell phones and PDAs) Apple, while not free computing, gives me exactly the kind of things I want without sacrificing the cool little touches (lots of blue blinky LEDS on a rackmount server? woo) that make Apple's stuff REALLY cool. You have to use OS X for a good period of time before you realize exactly how much thought went into making things work the way they do, but once you do, it's like "Wow, that makes sense, why didn't I think of that?" It looks cool, it's powerful as all hell, yet easy enough for a child to use. Apple makes products for the masses, but they leave enough power under the hood for us geeks to tinker with. That's something hard to do. :)
So therefore, OS X is dying. Do not waste your money and time on such a tool of Great Satan. OS X is not on this computer, in fact it is 200 miles from my computer and its manual is burning in hell.. It's so easy to use it doesn't HAVE a manual to burn? Pah! I hit OS X with my shoe. Take THAT!
</SarcasticTroll>
Well, frankly if Apple's service signs the other 4 major labels and not Universal, it will probably be very successful, and Microsoft would be castrating Universal if they didn't sign as well. Like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I don't see Microsoft being able to put down control (in the form of DRM) long enough to make anything they'd offer desirable to the public. Microsoft is starting to remind me a LOT of Disney now, with their goals of control and power over profit. Guess that's what happens when you have $50 billion just sitting there.
Well, just look at the competition.
Americans? Terrorists? No! Nevermind that US special forces often engage in "covert warfare" that is eerily reminiscant of terrorism (car bombs, assassinations, etc.) except we don't see it in the news here because it doesn't officially involve americans.
You're right, there are better reasons why those are bad. More like they're EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN by the constitution. Neat trick they pulled though, you can't challenge the PATRIOT act as unconstitutional because you're effectively tried by secret tribunal.. i.e. no way for it to get to the supreme court to be ruled unconstitutional.
Nah, skate movies are just bad because of the repeated head injuries suffered by those making them. "Look ma, I'm gonna throw a misty off a ramp and over some stairs!" *crunch*
So you know people in the porn industry too? (if you've ever seen how badly porn is edited you'll get the joke.)
Star Ocean now works fine. It's even translated, though DeJap's page seems to be gone. So I'd say ZSNES is about 99.9999% compatible with the SNES, which is good enough for me.
Right, for smart people, high school is not fun. But it can and should be. The biggest mistake most smart people make is to think that everyone is cooler than them, which is really not the case. :) Hell, band geeks are definitely not cool but you can still have a blast with them and they're usually nice people. Theater geeks are only mildly cooler and they're fucking crazy (plus theater politics is a lot like business politics.) Social development (the subtle things, like learning how to read people) is more important that some crappy job. It'll get you a lot further in life than a part time sysadmin job.
Um.. Let's put it this way.. The rich can only buy so many cars and yachts and things. An economy will only grow if people are buying things. Yes, the rich will probably invest this extra money back into the economy, but that really doesn't matter much. You can have all the investment in the world, but unless you're producing a good or service and selling it to someone, you're not really making money (the dot-com era is a perfect example of this.) You basically want spending to increase. It's nice if investment increases as well, but you don't generate wealth unless people spend money and recieve something tangible in return.
Yeah. Someone's gonna give a high school kid a job when there are tons of college graduates who can't find them. Besides, high schoolers shouldn't be sysadmins anyway. Nobody takes you seriously, you can't work more than part-time hours and you should be doing better things with your time. It doesn't even help you on your resume. I speak from experience here (I had a sysadmin job for 2 years in high school) and now I really wish I hadn't. Don't be in such a hurry to grow up, you might miss all the fun you were supposed to have in high school. Carpe diem, go out and get laid or smoke weed or something. Don't wish you were sitting in an office typing on a computer; you'll have plenty of time to do that for the next 50 years of your life.
Yup. Iirc the newer Athlon XPs put off more heat per area than the sun. Now that's hot. :)
Seeing as streaming video is BUILT IN to most media players/codecs, this is gonna get thrown out quick. Not to mention the idea of streaming video is probably 50 years old, what with those dreams of videophones and all..