Don't tell the editors but the qatsi trilogy isn't a sci-fi series, nor does it have anything to do with anime. Clearly they don't realize that Koyaanisqatsi is a gorgeous artsy movie about the balance of life in nature and society, best enjoyed with illicit substances running through your veins. Or that Powaqatsi explores the effect of modernization on third world nations, and it's not neccessarily all tea and roses.
That being said, it's not traditional geek material, but it's fascinating and wonderful
Re:Only 7 ammendments left in the Bill of Rights
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The scariest part about those incidents is that they're not at all isolated. Ashcroft is just a fucking loon.
Example, the death with dignity act in Oregon. It was passed by Oregon voters, 51/49 in 1994. In 1997 voters rejected an act that would repeal the act, 60/40.
Ashcroft directed that the law be repealed, despite being passed twice by the Oregon population. This directive was shut down by a district court judge. What does Ashcroft do now, knowing that the states population has voted for this law, twice, and that he lost in court? he appeals, to attempt to restrict Oregon's right to make a law to allow death with dignity. way to spend our tax money, johnny-boy.
I miss the good ole' days, when the news consisted solely of who or what was blowing the president lately.
Re:If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.
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beside the lack of games
Colour me stupid, but I tend to think that a superior game console that doesn't have games is best defined as a paperweight.
Also, ogg vorbis zealots ignore the fact that there's no single-chip ogg decoder chip, that it's floating point intensive, and there's not even a set of specifications for the format.
The real question here is why does Nokia have an opinion on the matter, and why should anybody care what their opinion is anyway?
They're not lawyers. They're not law makers. They're not chalkers. They probably aren't even getting chalked. So why does anybody give a flying fuck about their opinion?
Let's say you read the contract, you hire an astute lawyer who tells you that it's unfair. You go back to the record company who will them tell you that you have two options: a) go fuck yourself or b) sign it.
Odds are good that you'll sign it and hope you end up in the black.
Fact is, there's nothing about the music industry that's fair, from the recording companies, to the concert promotoers, to ticket sales. It's legalized organized crime.
I think that's a risk the record company is willing to take. After all, Tori Amos and Pearl Jam are both bands whose cds are generally bought by rabid fans who'd buy a cd of/dev/random, as long as it says Pearl Jam, or Tori Amos on the cover.
I can't help but wonder if the publicity around the stunt won't generate more press than the releases alone, after all, they just successfully told half a million slashdot readers that there's a new Tori Amos and Pearl Jam album coming out.
In addition to wanting more legroom (I'm 6'5"), I'd like to see tivo-esque functionality in my radio, and a way to snag mp3s off my home network wirelessly from my garage... Better GPS systems, that integrate with local traffic forecasts would be very sweet.
Other than that, most of the things I'd like (driver adjustable suspension and engine tuning, clutch superchargers and distance-based cruise control come to mind) already exist, just not in anything I drive.
That paper doesn't argue against using XHTML, it argues against using XHTML and then setting the mime-type to text/html.
Hixie appears to just like to rant... he has an 18K rant about the use of alt tags for images. Clearly, this is a guy who needs a hobby that doesn't involve writing 'considered harmful' papers.
Hey, I just called TIPS and told them that a terrorist named joshki is the ringleader of terrorist operations, they'll be over to arrest you and hold you indefinitely shortly.
Hope you don't do anything evil, like smoke pot, or use strong encryption.
finance charges: paypal doesn't even offer lines of credit, so there's no comparison. Nobody forces you to take out a c2it credit line instead of linking to checking, savings, or your credit cards.
credit card fees: paypal doesn't shelter you from credit card cash advance fees either. If you put money into your paypal account from your credit card, and your credit card charges that, you'll also get hit
international fees: yep, $10 to transfer money internationally, while then paypal imposes a withdrawal fee on the international recipient, in addition to the percentage they get from the sender (and in the case of business accounts, the receiver).
No good competition? c2it is good competition, as is Yahoo Paydirect which is run by a reputable bank (HSBC). Nearly every service out there is better, cheaper, and more fair than paypal. They just don't have the name recognition because paypal was the first major player in the market.
class action lawsuits generally don't help you individually (unless you're one of the lawyers, or the damage was quite incredible), but they do help society as a whole, because it makes it hard for companies to knowingly fuck people lightly.
Let's say a company does something that screws you out of $20. Are you going to do anything? No, it doesn't make sense. Now let's say a lawyer finds a million people who got screwed, now the company is facing a real lawsuit, and has incentive not to pull those kind of shenanigans again, even though you might only get $5 back after all is said and done.
I'm all for class action lawsuits against paypal. A company who locked down a tad over $100 of my money, and won't even allow me to refund it to the sender. They're an illegal bank, and I'm happy to see that a money-hungry lawyer is busy fucking them hard, even if I never see a dime because of it.
btw, if you're looking for a paypal alternative that's run by a real bank, is FDIC insured, and doesn't charge you to send or receive money, check out c2it by citibank.
Taiwan isn't hopping on the bandwagon
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Taiwan isn't hopping on the bandwagon here, as China truly does use terrorist tactics. China has threatened Taiwan with missiles, and doesn't even acknowledge the legitimacy of Taiwan's government.
Taiwan is not officially a state, as it does not clearly have the capacity to enter into relationships with other states, as many other countries view Taiwan as part of the ROC, not as an independant state. Taiwan cannot appeal to the United Nations, because it cannot join the United Nations, due to the fact that membership can be vetoed by any member of the security council, of which China is a member.
This has been a long-standing problem, as Taiwan has 20+ million people, who've formed a self-governing body and want to be their own country, but have an 800-lb gorilla preventing them from doing so. Unfortunately this problem has been worsened in recent years as countries such as the United States have made clear that they don't care about China's oppression of Taiwan by ignorning the issue, and even granting China Most Favored Nation status, as Americans care more about cheap shoes than they do about the oppression of a country, and about gross human rights violations.
I think it's safe to say that anybody buying a $500,000 linux cluster already has software to run on it, and has probably been testing on a $50,000 linux cluster, so migrating would indeed be an inappropriate and expensive option.
Now if they sat down at the initial project meeting and listed 'Must run on Linux' in the requirements, that would just be idiocy.
My bad, I hadn't seen this site in a few months, and they changed it since last I saw, since the first thing i checked when i saw it, was whether it was as simple as adding an rtl to do that or not...
Sorry bout that, I shouldn't make posts based on old information.
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That being said, it's not traditional geek material, but it's fascinating and wonderful
Example, the death with dignity act in Oregon. It was passed by Oregon voters, 51/49 in 1994. In 1997 voters rejected an act that would repeal the act, 60/40.
Ashcroft directed that the law be repealed, despite being passed twice by the Oregon population. This directive was shut down by a district court judge. What does Ashcroft do now, knowing that the states population has voted for this law, twice, and that he lost in court? he appeals, to attempt to restrict Oregon's right to make a law to allow death with dignity. way to spend our tax money, johnny-boy.
I miss the good ole' days, when the news consisted solely of who or what was blowing the president lately.
Ogg's a joke, and it's not even a good one.
Also, the iPod accepts power via firewire just fine, and that's a perfectly valid way to charge it back up.
Why PC freaks love USB is a mystery to me.
They're not lawyers. They're not law makers. They're not chalkers. They probably aren't even getting chalked. So why does anybody give a flying fuck about their opinion?
There's all sorts of interesting lighting possibilities from places like Lucifer Lighting.
Good luck in the upcoming layoffs now that your division is getting merged and all.
What's your opinion on the contingent of society that considers your actions heroic, and considers you to be a hero?
How do you believe your actions affected society in a positive manner?
Do you think that incarceration is a just consequence to your actions?
Odds are good that you'll sign it and hope you end up in the black.
Fact is, there's nothing about the music industry that's fair, from the recording companies, to the concert promotoers, to ticket sales. It's legalized organized crime.
I can't help but wonder if the publicity around the stunt won't generate more press than the releases alone, after all, they just successfully told half a million slashdot readers that there's a new Tori Amos and Pearl Jam album coming out.
I'm not in the seti or d.net competitions anymore because I'd rather spend my cycles on Distributed Folding, or a cure for cancer.
Other than that, most of the things I'd like (driver adjustable suspension and engine tuning, clutch superchargers and distance-based cruise control come to mind) already exist, just not in anything I drive.
the intelligent cruise control isn't just being developed, it's already available in the high-end Mercedes models.
)-: damn you, you directionalist bastard.
I love zombocom!
Hixie appears to just like to rant... he has an 18K rant about the use of alt tags for images. Clearly, this is a guy who needs a hobby that doesn't involve writing 'considered harmful' papers.
Hope you don't do anything evil, like smoke pot, or use strong encryption.
- finance charges: paypal doesn't even offer lines of credit, so there's no comparison. Nobody forces you to take out a c2it credit line instead of linking to checking, savings, or your credit cards.
- credit card fees: paypal doesn't shelter you from credit card cash advance fees either. If you put money into your paypal account from your credit card, and your credit card charges that, you'll also get hit
- international fees: yep, $10 to transfer money internationally, while then paypal imposes a withdrawal fee on the international recipient, in addition to the percentage they get from the sender (and in the case of business accounts, the receiver).
No good competition? c2it is good competition, as is Yahoo Paydirect which is run by a reputable bank (HSBC). Nearly every service out there is better, cheaper, and more fair than paypal. They just don't have the name recognition because paypal was the first major player in the market.Let's say a company does something that screws you out of $20. Are you going to do anything? No, it doesn't make sense. Now let's say a lawyer finds a million people who got screwed, now the company is facing a real lawsuit, and has incentive not to pull those kind of shenanigans again, even though you might only get $5 back after all is said and done.
I'm all for class action lawsuits against paypal. A company who locked down a tad over $100 of my money, and won't even allow me to refund it to the sender. They're an illegal bank, and I'm happy to see that a money-hungry lawyer is busy fucking them hard, even if I never see a dime because of it.
btw, if you're looking for a paypal alternative that's run by a real bank, is FDIC insured, and doesn't charge you to send or receive money, check out c2it by citibank.
Taiwan is not officially a state, as it does not clearly have the capacity to enter into relationships with other states, as many other countries view Taiwan as part of the ROC, not as an independant state. Taiwan cannot appeal to the United Nations, because it cannot join the United Nations, due to the fact that membership can be vetoed by any member of the security council, of which China is a member.
This has been a long-standing problem, as Taiwan has 20+ million people, who've formed a self-governing body and want to be their own country, but have an 800-lb gorilla preventing them from doing so. Unfortunately this problem has been worsened in recent years as countries such as the United States have made clear that they don't care about China's oppression of Taiwan by ignorning the issue, and even granting China Most Favored Nation status, as Americans care more about cheap shoes than they do about the oppression of a country, and about gross human rights violations.
Now if they sat down at the initial project meeting and listed 'Must run on Linux' in the requirements, that would just be idiocy.
Sorry bout that, I shouldn't make posts based on old information.