> Intellectuals, professionals, and the > middle-class are the enemies of republicanism. > Just as republicanism is the enemy of the > american dream.
That is ludicrous. Obviously you want to take this issue and make it partisan, so if that's the case, you actually want to replace "republicanism" with "the democratic party". This is more correct for two reasons:
1) The Democratic Party wants more people on welfare, therefore intellectuals, and the middle-class are actually what Democrats want to get rid of. Only those uneducated, lower-class "citizens" can properly suck on the big mommy government!
2) The American Dream? By that do you mean the dream that everyone can work hard and make a decent living for themselves? The Democratic Party sure doesn't want you working hard for yourselves! They want the big government to give you what you need.
So, truthfully, youre statement was a pretty sad attempt to lash out at Republicans.
I have a little Shuttle PC as my MythTV box in the living room. It's wonderful! But it's a lot more than just TiVo functionality. On top of the TV recording/live pause/etc of TiVo you also get game emulators, image galleries, weather, and music library. It's the ultimate "media convergence box". I highly recommend it.
Actually, he did that out of college. In college he did a student film that won a college award entitled "TXH-1138:4EB Electronic Labrynth". It was about 15 minutes long. He of course made the feature film based on this original short.
2) What was your hypothesis? What determines a better gadget? That should drive your weightings. For example, if you're looking for a gadget that is fun, then "playability" should be weighted as a large factor and therefore present the GB SP as the *clear* winner.
This was a poor review. Anyone can compare an apple to an orange and use sufficiently subjective rankings to determine the orange is better than the apple by a score of 51 to 50. But what does that mean to me? Nothing.
Thank you! I was missing the faad library so mplayer couldn't play the sound. With your little mini-HOWTO I was just able to watch the new trailer. I appreciate the time you took to write that out.
Seriously, check out MythTV. It gets program listings from the web thanks to XMLTV. You can schedule recordings to be one-time, all occurrances of the show on that time slot, or all at any time on any channel. You can then watch your recorded shows, rewind, ff. You can pause live TV. It's got it all! I've been playing around with it for about three weeks now and love it. The best part is that it's so much more than a TiVo. Beyond the tv stuff, it has game emulation, a nice weather module, image gallery module, and a great music interface so I can finally stop using CDs.
Really, it's amazing. I suggest you check it out before you declare all home-brew PVRs unworthy. I would say *you* are missing the point;).
But since most (all?) AOL subscribers are on dial-up, they'll probably spend all month just trying to download 10 songs. Seems like a reasonable limit to me;).
That user interface is ugly. Try mythTV for a great Linux Tivo/MP3/Ogg/Image/MAME media center. I'm putting one together in a Shuttle XPC box. Making it as pretty as possible increases the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor).
I've been using PHP for web development for three years now and I must say it is the only way to fly. I can't believe how people still wrangle with ASP and Java when PHP is so easy and fast.
What's even more scary than the 4K ROM limit is the 128 bytes of RAM. Yes, 128 bytes. 6502 assembly is easy, and the Stella chip architecture was an amazing acheivement. Read the Stella Programmer's Guide (available here) to be truly amazed at what it took those guys to develop games.
In my game I'm just at the point where I have a playfield, a moveable player, and one missile I can shoot. And that took a lot of effort. You know you're doing hardcore software development when you have to count cycles to make sure you're not computing when the electron beam is actually being drawn. You have 2700 or so cycles to work with "above" the television image per screen for computation, and only about 48 for each scan line before you start messing up your game image because you're still doing computation. It's interesting because you're tied to the physical progression of the electron beam across the TV.
> If someone is bothering you with their > cell phone chatter in a place such as a > movie theater...
How about just tell the person they're bothering you? What's wrong with us here in the US that we can't confront anyone anymore? Everyone has to just pretend that everyone is nice all the time, then of course talk about these people behind their backs.
Just say something! You're not being rude; you're alerting this person to the fact that they are out of place in what they're doing. We'll all be better off.
I'm starting a home theatre PC solution using Freevo (freevo.sourceforge.net). It'll do movies, mp3, image slide shows, and even initial support for MAME. What a perfect addition to a home theatre.
Just two days ago I bought a sweet Samsung widescreen HDTV, and a few weeks ago a DD 5.1 receiver. I must say that Metroid Prime is a great test for both audio and video. What a sweet game. And I thought it was amazing *before* my home theatre upgrade...
Seriously, the game is a reason to buy a GameCube if you don't own one.
I agree about the design; doesn't look ruggedized enough for the typical 10-year-old;).
The nice thing about the Afterburner frontlit mod is that the screen looks great in both sunlight and total darkness. If there's sunlight around, then it just looks like a normal reflective LCD since the sunlight is much brighter than the provided frontlit light film. But in total darkness it looks about the same with the lit plastic film. I prefer it to the backlit look of the GameGear which looks *fab* at night but not that great in natural light.
Shut yer yap, whiner. I added a frontlit (yes, frontlit) mod to my GBA and it looks AMAZING. And, it doesn't suck down the juice like a full backlit LCD screen does, so I have about 8 hours of play time even with the light on. I think frontlit it the way to go completely.
For those with the "old" GBA, check out the Afterburner kit. I got one when they were first released, and for $35, it's a great improvement. So, go buy a $50 GBA, and the $35 Afterburner kit. Plus you even get to void your warranty to install it!
I have a Game Gear, too. That thing was way ahead of its time (1990), but it went through batteries like crazy because of the backlit screen.
Listening to groove salad right now. It's the best music for coding, IMHO. I've discovered all my latest music purchases through all the SomaFM channels. Great stuff.
No, the Bill of Rights enumerated *personal* rights that the gov't could not infringe. Why would just one out of the ten be a state right?
Also, the concept of the militia is to form a military group out of your citizens. Therefore, you need a citizenry that owns and shoots guns regularly, so when you *do* need to form a militia, they are ready to fight. In fact, in a militia, the men were assumed to bring their own weapons.
Also, it does not refer to the National Guard since that was formed by an act of Congress 140 years after the Bill of Rights was ratified.
The problem with finding "unbiased" data is rarely does anyone with an opinion either way just decide to do a study. Think of trying to find "unbiased" studies on Linux vs. Microsoft stuff. Everyone has an agenda.
I, for one, and a huge fan of the U.S. Constitution. And that means I think the government shouldn't be able to stop me from speaking, stop me from gathering in a peaceful manner, stop me from going to church, or stop me from owning a gun for my own self-protection. I carry a gun every day, in fact. It's MY responsibility for my and my family's safety, not the police deparment who will show up 20 minutes late to clean up the mess. I take that responsibility seriously, and in this "land of the free", nobody should be able to take that right of self-protection away. The founding fathers saw those as "God-given" (sorry athiests, but our Founding Fathers were actually believers. Deal).
If you want some good stuff to research, try these links:
http://www.guncite.com/
http://secondamendmentstuff.com/
http://stealthboy.dyndns.org/~msherman/cowards.h tm l
I have three servers at Rackspace with the Private Net between them. They really are amazing. Service is actually *service* and they truly care about customers. It's amazing, and I'm more cynical than most people, but Rackspace truly impresses me.
My web pages are not just static HTML, either. This site serves an hour-long interactive training course that certifies over 3000 people a day. And the servers have been working perfectly. In fact, one of my three machines there has an uptime of 355 days (tomorrow is a whole year!!!). They're all running Linux, of course.
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> Intellectuals, professionals, and the
> middle-class are the enemies of republicanism.
> Just as republicanism is the enemy of the
> american dream.
That is ludicrous. Obviously you want to take this issue and make it partisan, so if that's the case, you actually want to replace "republicanism" with "the democratic party". This is more correct for two reasons:
1) The Democratic Party wants more people on welfare, therefore intellectuals, and the middle-class are actually what Democrats want to get rid of. Only those uneducated, lower-class "citizens" can properly suck on the big mommy government!
2) The American Dream? By that do you mean the dream that everyone can work hard and make a decent living for themselves? The Democratic Party sure doesn't want you working hard for yourselves! They want the big government to give you what you need.
So, truthfully, youre statement was a pretty sad attempt to lash out at Republicans.
Check out MythTV. It's what's running on *my* homebrew and it sure isn't just an awkward VCR.
http://www.mythtv.org/
It's only at a 0.8 release and is quite impressive.
I have a little Shuttle PC as my MythTV box in the living room. It's wonderful! But it's a lot more than just TiVo functionality. On top of the TV recording/live pause/etc of TiVo you also get game emulators, image galleries, weather, and music library. It's the ultimate "media convergence box". I highly recommend it.
Actually, he did that out of college. In college he did a student film that won a college award entitled "TXH-1138:4EB Electronic Labrynth". It was about 15 minutes long. He of course made the feature film based on this original short.
Anyways, THX is an excellent film.
1) All categories had equal weighting. Bad.
2) What was your hypothesis? What determines a better gadget? That should drive your weightings. For example, if you're looking for a gadget that is fun, then "playability" should be weighted as a large factor and therefore present the GB SP as the *clear* winner.
This was a poor review. Anyone can compare an apple to an orange and use sufficiently subjective rankings to determine the orange is better than the apple by a score of 51 to 50. But what does that mean to me? Nothing.
Only 5 posts and it's already slashdotted.
Now, you all may proceed with your "Their webserver is running on a C64!" comments. Slashdot comments are becoming so pedestrian.
Thank you! I was missing the faad library so mplayer couldn't play the sound. With your little mini-HOWTO I was just able to watch the new trailer. I appreciate the time you took to write that out.
MythTV
Seriously, check out MythTV. It gets program listings from the web thanks to XMLTV. You can schedule recordings to be one-time, all occurrances of the show on that time slot, or all at any time on any channel. You can then watch your recorded shows, rewind, ff. You can pause live TV. It's got it all! I've been playing around with it for about three weeks now and love it. The best part is that it's so much more than a TiVo. Beyond the tv stuff, it has game emulation, a nice weather module, image gallery module, and a great music interface so I can finally stop using CDs.
;).
Really, it's amazing. I suggest you check it out before you declare all home-brew PVRs unworthy. I would say *you* are missing the point
Not true. XMLTV solves that problem by grabbing TV listings off the Web. This is what MythTV uses to schedule recordings.
Yes, mythTV is your friend. Mix one part MythTV, and one part Shuttle XPC and you have the ultimate Linux PVR.
But since most (all?) AOL subscribers are on dial-up, they'll probably spend all month just trying to download 10 songs. Seems like a reasonable limit to me ;).
That user interface is ugly. Try mythTV for a great Linux Tivo/MP3/Ogg/Image/MAME media center. I'm putting one together in a Shuttle XPC box. Making it as pretty as possible increases the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor).
I've been using PHP for web development for three years now and I must say it is the only way to fly. I can't believe how people still wrangle with ASP and Java when PHP is so easy and fast.
What's even more scary than the 4K ROM limit is the 128 bytes of RAM. Yes, 128 bytes. 6502 assembly is easy, and the Stella chip architecture was an amazing acheivement. Read the Stella Programmer's Guide (available here) to be truly amazed at what it took those guys to develop games.
In my game I'm just at the point where I have a playfield, a moveable player, and one missile I can shoot. And that took a lot of effort. You know you're doing hardcore software development when you have to count cycles to make sure you're not computing when the electron beam is actually being drawn. You have 2700 or so cycles to work with "above" the television image per screen for computation, and only about 48 for each scan line before you start messing up your game image because you're still doing computation. It's interesting because you're tied to the physical progression of the electron beam across the TV.
Yeah, that's right. Legislate everything. That'll solve our social woes!
> If someone is bothering you with their
> cell phone chatter in a place such as a
> movie theater...
How about just tell the person they're bothering you? What's wrong with us here in the US that we can't confront anyone anymore? Everyone has to just pretend that everyone is nice all the time, then of course talk about these people behind their backs.
Just say something! You're not being rude; you're alerting this person to the fact that they are out of place in what they're doing. We'll all be better off.
Yeah, I hate passive agressiveness.
I'm starting a home theatre PC solution using Freevo (freevo.sourceforge.net). It'll do movies, mp3, image slide shows, and even initial support for MAME. What a perfect addition to a home theatre.
Just two days ago I bought a sweet Samsung widescreen HDTV, and a few weeks ago a DD 5.1 receiver. I must say that Metroid Prime is a great test for both audio and video. What a sweet game. And I thought it was amazing *before* my home theatre upgrade...
Seriously, the game is a reason to buy a GameCube if you don't own one.
I agree about the design; doesn't look ruggedized enough for the typical 10-year-old ;).
The nice thing about the Afterburner frontlit mod is that the screen looks great in both sunlight and total darkness. If there's sunlight around, then it just looks like a normal reflective LCD since the sunlight is much brighter than the provided frontlit light film. But in total darkness it looks about the same with the lit plastic film. I prefer it to the backlit look of the GameGear which looks *fab* at night but not that great in natural light.
Shut yer yap, whiner. I added a frontlit (yes, frontlit) mod to my GBA and it looks AMAZING. And, it doesn't suck down the juice like a full backlit LCD screen does, so I have about 8 hours of play time even with the light on. I think frontlit it the way to go completely.
For those with the "old" GBA, check out the Afterburner kit. I got one when they were first released, and for $35, it's a great improvement. So, go buy a $50 GBA, and the $35 Afterburner kit. Plus you even get to void your warranty to install it!
I have a Game Gear, too. That thing was way ahead of its time (1990), but it went through batteries like crazy because of the backlit screen.
Listening to groove salad right now. It's the best music for coding, IMHO. I've discovered all my latest music purchases through all the SomaFM channels. Great stuff.
No, the Bill of Rights enumerated *personal* rights that the gov't could not infringe. Why would just one out of the ten be a state right?
Also, the concept of the militia is to form a military group out of your citizens. Therefore, you need a citizenry that owns and shoots guns regularly, so when you *do* need to form a militia, they are ready to fight. In fact, in a militia, the men were assumed to bring their own weapons.
Also, it does not refer to the National Guard since that was formed by an act of Congress 140 years after the Bill of Rights was ratified.
The problem with finding "unbiased" data is rarely does anyone with an opinion either way just decide to do a study. Think of trying to find "unbiased" studies on Linux vs. Microsoft stuff. Everyone has an agenda.
h tm l
I, for one, and a huge fan of the U.S. Constitution. And that means I think the government shouldn't be able to stop me from speaking, stop me from gathering in a peaceful manner, stop me from going to church, or stop me from owning a gun for my own self-protection. I carry a gun every day, in fact. It's MY responsibility for my and my family's safety, not the police deparment who will show up 20 minutes late to clean up the mess. I take that responsibility seriously, and in this "land of the free", nobody should be able to take that right of self-protection away. The founding fathers saw those as "God-given" (sorry athiests, but our Founding Fathers were actually believers. Deal).
If you want some good stuff to research, try these links:
http://www.guncite.com/
http://secondamendmentstuff.com/
http://stealthboy.dyndns.org/~msherman/cowards.
Yeah, i know; meant to type 365, making tomorrow the day past a year. stupid quick typing.
I have three servers at Rackspace with the Private Net between them. They really are amazing. Service is actually *service* and they truly care about customers. It's amazing, and I'm more cynical than most people, but Rackspace truly impresses me.
My web pages are not just static HTML, either. This site serves an hour-long interactive training course that certifies over 3000 people a day. And the servers have been working perfectly. In fact, one of my three machines there has an uptime of 355 days (tomorrow is a whole year!!!). They're all running Linux, of course.