Really? I could have sworn the "vast majority" were not rightwing christians, but liberals on the left who keep breaking-into labs to rescue animals, or protesting the lumbering of trees, or rallying around WTO conventions. In the process they often sabotage or blow-up the equipment or smash citizens windows (see the videos from Occupy).
No but I've thought about moving to the EU where they've outlawed nudebody scanners as hazardous to health, and don't have any kind of patdowns/sexual assault by strangers. Funny. The former Eastern Europe is now MORE free than the U.S.A.
You mean like he vetoed the ACTA? - Oh no he signed that one. You mean like he asked congress to remove the "indefinite detaiment" from NDAA? - Oh no he asked them to ADD those two sentences. - And then he signed it. - Obama == Bush; can't believe a word coming out of his mouth.
"Disrupting the peace" is the usual thing the cops hit you with when they can't think of anything else. You may be completely innocent but they'll hit you with that so they can jail or fine you.
Like when they drug Professor Gates off to jail because he (rightly) was angry at being forced to let cops inside his house in violation of his 4th amendment rights. The professor should have sued the cop and the station, and turned it into a national event to emabrass police everywhere. But no. Instead he caved.
Btw do you think the mentally-retarded woman deserved to be beat by cops 3 months ago? Or that the man who recorded with his phone deserved to be drug to jail? You probably do.
Just re-elect Obama for 4 more years, or Romney to replace him, and we'll head down that path where Americans are getting round-up and thrown in jail. The sooner we reach tyranny, the sooner we can impeach the joker, and restore the Bill of Rights.
Solution: Don't resist arrest. Even if the cop is full of shit, cooperate with him by letting him place handcuffs on you. And then sue him for thousands later. (You don't have to win; you just have to inconvenience the cop as badly as he inconvenienced you.)
1. Become lawyer 2. Visit prisons every day 3. Profit$
To not arrest people and throw them in jail for merely speaking (Sedition Acts) or suspected terrorists (round-up of asian-Americans). We said it would never happen again, and yet we are going down that same path (indefinite detainment for mere suspicion).
Excellent examples. I need to bookmark these for the next time someone claims "MPEG4 is no better than WebM"
Oh and by the way I wasn't confused about MPEG3. I am well aware that No such standard exists. I was making the point that WebM lies about halfway between MPEG2 and 4 in quality..... that WebM==MPEG3 if that standard had existed.
>>>you can watch the BBC without a licence thanks to the internet
True. Americans spend about $2 a year to sustain PBS, which is annoying enough, but at least it's cheap. I can't imagine having the government hit me with a ~$300 bill every year just to see BBC. The channel isn't even that good. (Like TNT or Syfy, there are 1-2 good shows and about it.)
>>>The difference is that the Kindle advertising was always on.
Ahhh so it's like the magazine I have laying on my desk with its giant Marlboro ad "always on". Or my Alfred Hitchcock book with an ad for some play being advertised on the back.
Yeah. Things really started going downhill 100 years ago. What's the world coming too? Things were better in the 1800s when we didn't have magazines or books w/ ads.
>>> every connected device with a screen in your house is displaying advertising all the time that it has power.
Doubtful. Displaying advertising on non-electronic ink screens, like your TV or iPad or laptop, would waste energy. For example the Kindle Fire does not have advertising, because it would drain the battery. Instead it turns off.
I learned more from reading my textbooks (and studying the problem solutions), then anything the professor taught as he mumbled into the chalkboard and erased the equations before I had a chance to copy them down. I had 4 maybe 5 good teachers in college and the other ~35 were poor.
I would have downgraded to XP rather than use Linux (which my favorite torrent website does not support for some reason) (or amazon's kindle). Of course XP isn't free like Linux.:-(
>>>see their Kindle sitting there with a Visa ad on the front, it makes me feel nauseous.
Wow. You're weird. A still photo of the Visa card makes you sick??? Ridiculous. Besides the ads are actually more entertaining than the non-ad version (boring & very repetitive screensavers of authors). At least the ads gave me ~$70 on initial purchase, plus another $10 in free gift cards.
Advertising has also given me ~40 years of free television, 30 years of free talk or musicradio, free webpages instead of paypages, cheap $1 magazines, and so on. Free is better than spending ~$5000 a year to get the same level of service. (IMHO)
It's worked for TV. And radio. Even the internet (netzero). Sure I could pay ~$300 a year for three channels (BBC1,2,3) like my cousins overseas, but why? I get 40+ channels completely free and let the corporations carry the burden of operating cost.
Ditto radio. Ditto internet. Even my kindle comes with ads (reduces cost by about half).
Of course there are also examples where it failed, like the "paid-to-surf" companies, but they never provided anything of value for most people.
Apple was not the first to use Animal names for OSes? (ponder). MS-DOS. MS Windows. Commodore GEOS. Atari TOS. Amiga Workbench/CLI. Macintosh System 7,8,9. I can't think of any prior examples.
True. It was 14" (an old television that I still own). 40 characters per line. Ahhhh the nostalgia.:-) I feel like going to play Zork or Hitchhikers Guide again.
To quote Archer Bunker: "Ah geez!" to all the people complaining a 12.04 search turns up book chapters 12 verse 4, or April 12, or whatever.;-)
All you gotta do is use quotes "OS X 10.6" or "Ubuntu 11.10" to qualify what you're looking for. Or wildcards "Ubuntu 11.* " Maybe searching is becoming a lost art? Unfortunately I can never remember the animals names for Mac or Linux; only the numbers.
Really? Wasn't XP simply the +0.1 version of Win2000? I would have thought XP would be more stable, like how WinSeven (6.1) is more stable/bugfree than Vista (6.0).
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>>>Did OP specify that they were only referring to OS companies?
Yes. I did. I specified one OS (linux) copying another OS (apple), and their animal-based naming convention.
Really? I could have sworn the "vast majority" were not rightwing christians, but liberals on the left who keep breaking-into labs to rescue animals, or protesting the lumbering of trees, or rallying around WTO conventions. In the process they often sabotage or blow-up the equipment or smash citizens windows (see the videos from Occupy).
No but I've thought about moving to the EU where they've outlawed nudebody scanners as hazardous to health, and don't have any kind of patdowns/sexual assault by strangers. Funny. The former Eastern Europe is now MORE free than the U.S.A.
So you oppose organics. Hell even conspiracy nut Alex Jones supports organic food over factory food. You're really out there dude.
You mean like he vetoed the ACTA?
- Oh no he signed that one.
You mean like he asked congress to remove the "indefinite detaiment" from NDAA?
- Oh no he asked them to ADD those two sentences.
- And then he signed it.
- Obama == Bush; can't believe a word coming out of his mouth.
"Disrupting the peace" is the usual thing the cops hit you with when they can't think of anything else. You may be completely innocent but they'll hit you with that so they can jail or fine you.
Like when they drug Professor Gates off to jail because he (rightly) was angry at being forced to let cops inside his house in violation of his 4th amendment rights. The professor should have sued the cop and the station, and turned it into a national event to emabrass police everywhere. But no. Instead he caved.
Btw do you think the mentally-retarded woman deserved to be beat by cops 3 months ago?
Or that the man who recorded with his phone deserved to be drug to jail?
You probably do.
Just re-elect Obama for 4 more years, or Romney to replace him, and we'll head down that path where Americans are getting round-up and thrown in jail. The sooner we reach tyranny, the sooner we can impeach the joker, and restore the Bill of Rights.
Solution: Don't resist arrest. Even if the cop is full of shit, cooperate with him by letting him place handcuffs on you. And then sue him for thousands later. (You don't have to win; you just have to inconvenience the cop as badly as he inconvenienced you.)
1. Become lawyer
2. Visit prisons every day
3. Profit$
To not arrest people and throw them in jail for merely speaking (Sedition Acts) or suspected terrorists (round-up of asian-Americans). We said it would never happen again, and yet we are going down that same path (indefinite detainment for mere suspicion).
Excellent examples.
I need to bookmark these for the next time someone claims "MPEG4 is no better than WebM"
Oh and by the way I wasn't confused about MPEG3. I am well aware that No such standard exists. I was making the point that WebM lies about halfway between MPEG2 and 4 in quality..... that WebM==MPEG3 if that standard had existed.
>>>>>This company did not raise prices for their older MPEG1, MPEG2, or MP3 standards, so why do you think they'll suddenly turn evil?
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That's what I thought. You've got nothing accept fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I am not persuaded that I should distrust MPEG.
>>>you can watch the BBC without a licence thanks to the internet
True.
Americans spend about $2 a year to sustain PBS, which is annoying enough, but at least it's cheap. I can't imagine having the government hit me with a ~$300 bill every year just to see BBC. The channel isn't even that good. (Like TNT or Syfy, there are 1-2 good shows and about it.)
>>>The difference is that the Kindle advertising was always on.
Ahhh so it's like the magazine I have laying on my desk with its giant Marlboro ad "always on". Or my Alfred Hitchcock book with an ad for some play being advertised on the back.
Yeah. Things really started going downhill 100 years ago. What's the world coming too? Things were better in the 1800s when we didn't have magazines or books w/ ads.
>>> every connected device with a screen in your house is displaying advertising all the time that it has power.
Doubtful. Displaying advertising on non-electronic ink screens, like your TV or iPad or laptop, would waste energy. For example the Kindle Fire does not have advertising, because it would drain the battery. Instead it turns off.
I learned more from reading my textbooks (and studying the problem solutions), then anything the professor taught as he mumbled into the chalkboard and erased the equations before I had a chance to copy them down. I had 4 maybe 5 good teachers in college and the other ~35 were poor.
I don't know why a software guy wants to learn VHDL, but here's where I started: VHDL For Designers http://www.amazon.com/VHDL-For-Designers-Stefan-Sjoholm/dp/0134734149
I would have downgraded to XP rather than use Linux (which my favorite torrent website does not support for some reason) (or amazon's kindle). Of course XP isn't free like Linux. :-(
>>>see their Kindle sitting there with a Visa ad on the front, it makes me feel nauseous.
Wow.
You're weird. A still photo of the Visa card makes you sick??? Ridiculous. Besides the ads are actually more entertaining than the non-ad version (boring & very repetitive screensavers of authors). At least the ads gave me ~$70 on initial purchase, plus another $10 in free gift cards.
Advertising has also given me ~40 years of free television, 30 years of free talk or musicradio, free webpages instead of paypages, cheap $1 magazines, and so on. Free is better than spending ~$5000 a year to get the same level of service. (IMHO)
It's worked for TV. And radio. Even the internet (netzero). Sure I could pay ~$300 a year for three channels (BBC1,2,3) like my cousins overseas, but why? I get 40+ channels completely free and let the corporations carry the burden of operating cost.
Ditto radio. Ditto internet. Even my kindle comes with ads (reduces cost by about half).
Of course there are also examples where it failed, like the "paid-to-surf" companies, but they never provided anything of value for most people.
This company did not raise prices for their older MPEG1, MPEG2, or MP3 standards, so why do you think they'll suddenly turn evil?
As a web developer you could just use MPEG2 for videos. That will soon be free to use.
Ogg Theora and WebM are no better in quality than MPEG3 (i.e. halfway between crappy MPEG2 and the newer MPEG4).
I wish ATSC used MPEG4 cause I'm tired of seeing blocks/mosquitos on my television screen. Oh well... the ATSC arrived too soon (1998).
Apple was not the first to use Animal names for OSes? (ponder). MS-DOS. MS Windows. Commodore GEOS. Atari TOS. Amiga Workbench/CLI. Macintosh System 7,8,9. I can't think of any prior examples.
True. It was 14" (an old television that I still own). 40 characters per line. Ahhhh the nostalgia. :-) I feel like going to play Zork or Hitchhikers Guide again.
To quote Archer Bunker: "Ah geez!" to all the people complaining a 12.04 search turns up book chapters 12 verse 4, or April 12, or whatever. ;-)
All you gotta do is use quotes "OS X 10.6" or "Ubuntu 11.10" to qualify what you're looking for. Or wildcards "Ubuntu 11.* " Maybe searching is becoming a lost art? Unfortunately I can never remember the animals names for Mac or Linux; only the numbers.
>>>XP was less stable than 2000.
Really? Wasn't XP simply the +0.1 version of Win2000? I would have thought XP would be more stable, like how WinSeven (6.1) is more stable/bugfree than Vista (6.0).