Because it was annoying enough for me to figure out which links to click, and I want to save someone else from the effort.
So is this for real? Are they really making a sequel, or is this just some guy's fan-made video? It's pretty good, though. Even with the rough quality (or maybe because of it), it looks like they had guys really riding motorcycles like that, then added CGI over the live footage.
Actually, O and I are normally not used on license plates (except vanity plates) to avoid confusion with the digits 0 and 1. And I presume that most states group plate sequences by which positions have digits vs letters, which is why you don't see "vowels" starting license plates. I wouldn't be surprised if there were plates starting with A, E, and U, unless the sequences weren't in the right place to for those. (then you wouldn't be seeing C, D, or V either)
The cost may be irrelevant to them, but apparently performance is too, since cat-6 cables are designed to be high quality without spending $300 a foot. Just because they have the money doesn't mean they need to light cigars with $100 bills because "the high-cotton content fibers in US currency, along with the special color-shifting inks, bring out all the richness of the flavor in the tobacco".
Do they get from A to B than you?
The question you should be asking is "Do they even bother to do an A vs B double-blind test?"
This cable is not intended to carry Ethernet. It's made for Denon's proprietary low-voltage differential LPCM interconnect. More like S/PDIF than Ethernet. Not everything with an RJ-45 is Ethernet.
In that case, it's worse than if was for Ethernet. What the hell are they doing using a crappy connector like RJ-45 for something like that?
They should be using optical anyhow, but they probably would say that "conversion losses" from translating digital information from electrons to photons and back would somehow be bad for the precious fragile audio.
If I had to concoct a theory off the top of my head, it would be that audiophilia works basically in the same way as a cult religion, only one that's stripped of all the traditional meaning-of-life accoutrements, and instead is extraordinarily science/rationality-driven.
So you mean to say that it's like the belief in anthropogenic global warming, only they use their own money instead of making the rest of us pay for it?
Seriously, though, I think that's the most disappointing thing about this cable. It's Ethernet, so it still uses those crappy RJ-45 connectors. That's like selling an oxygen-free mono-isotopic silver cable, slapping a Radio Shock phono plug on the end, then adding lots of shiny plastic bits over the plug to make it look better. Yeah, like they can do anything to prevent that little plastic clip from breaking off, and we all know it.
Actually, I suppose as long as you stop using a plastic hinge, it could be done. Use a metal lever, preferably with an actual coil spring under it, and bend it back into the connector at the far end to keep it from snagging. But then they wouldn't be ten for a dollar and probably wouldn't work with most crimpers. It just couldn't compete with plastic plugs except in overpriced crap like this.
What they really needed to do was come up with a new ethernet connector, preferably with military style screw caps, then they could sell THREE kinds of overpriced cables (combinations of RJ-45 and the new DenoNet connector), as well as overpriced hubs/switches (and you think Cisco is expensive?), and also be the first, err, only ones on the block with that new connector on the back of their audiophool equipment. I'd rather see a more sensible plug for ethernet that's better than RJ-45, but I know better than to expect the audiophool market to invent it.
Perhaps not. Isn't the whole point of carrying newsgroups for a provider to have a local copy (local to the ISP, that is)? Bandwidth from that local copy to users is cheap for an ISP.
Except that the high-bandwidth usenet (binaries) is now mostly concentrated through a handful of NSPs. If they get peering pipes to Giganews, Easynews, newsreader.com, and a few others, they might save enough to make up for their current costs, along with the extra costs that would have been incurred to get that bandwidth over their general backbone connection.
Running a usenet server with good binaries retention/completion is not for the faint of heart. Roadrunner is dropping newsgroups entirely. Sure, this kiddie porn thing may have been the cause for this happening, but it was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
If you had bothered to read above, you would have seen the answer: "truck drivers".
* hard to park in Best Buy's parking lot, and no room for a DVD shelf in the cab
* likely to be in a different state when it's time to return a rental
* insufficient bandwidth for piracy/legal downloads, and sometimes no bandwidth available at all
And that's after actually thinking about Phase IV the other day when I crushed almost a dozen new fire ant queens within the space of about two hours.
Anyhow, the only thing good about these "crazy ants" seems to be that they kill fire ants. That's it. I don't know if the trade-off is worth it. And I live in Texas, about 200-300 miles from Houston, so of course I hate fire ants with a passion.
Summary: DDT on fields = bad. DDT on hut walls (where it can actually control the mosquito population without getting into the nests of cute little birdies) = good.
No it does not. Last time I looked previous versions of office still worked as good as they did back then.
...until you can't buy a new copy of it any more. What are you going to do when your precious VBA scripts which are company-wide and need to be on every user's computer don't run on the new version, and you can't buy more of the old version? Your choices are 1) throw them away or 2) software piracy (even if you buy the new version that doesn't legally entitle you to the old version, which means you're vulnerable to BSA blackmail)
(Why would someone deploy their scripts that way? Because it's more enterprisey, of course!)
Here is the result of a ping session over a satellite link. It was done at a rest area along IH-35 in Texas:
$ ping xxxxxx.net
PING xxxxxx.net (xx.xx.xx.xx): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=1177.625 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=837.073 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=848.406 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=1072.072 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=1079.655 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=5 ttl=50 time=874.343 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=6 ttl=50 time=965.390 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=7 ttl=50 time=1081.254 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=8 ttl=50 time=844.191 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=9 ttl=50 time=903.456 ms
^C
--- xxxxxx.net ping statistics ---
11 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 9% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 837.073/968.346/1177.625/118.230 ms
I'm sure they'll be using TCP ACK spoofing in the ground satellite transceiver boxes.
What I want is an option to opt out of *all* unsolicited junk mail, especially anything that is marked "To Resident". Imagine how many trees would be saved!!!
Its there if you actually try to find it, instead of just whining about it. The biggest difference between e-mail spam and junk mail is that you can usually opt out of junk mail, but trying to opt out of spam is likely to just get you marked as a "live fish" and put on the "spam faster" list.
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We'll make a real-life expansion and invade outland?
Or something similar, by invading and taking back some of the under-utilized class-A blocks owned by single companies or the US government.
War Games is so fun because of all the cliches. And WOPR has some l33t blinkenlights.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x692m3_tr2n-cleaned-up-001_fun
Because it was annoying enough for me to figure out which links to click, and I want to save someone else from the effort.
So is this for real? Are they really making a sequel, or is this just some guy's fan-made video? It's pretty good, though. Even with the rough quality (or maybe because of it), it looks like they had guys really riding motorcycles like that, then added CGI over the live footage.
Not only can they re-compress over-the-air signals, but most of them do re-compress them.
I managed to convince it that murder was immortal
I don' theen that word means what you theen it means.
So that's who that guy is: "From my parents' home in Wyoming, I stab at thee! "
Actually, O and I are normally not used on license plates (except vanity plates) to avoid confusion with the digits 0 and 1. And I presume that most states group plate sequences by which positions have digits vs letters, which is why you don't see "vowels" starting license plates. I wouldn't be surprised if there were plates starting with A, E, and U, unless the sequences weren't in the right place to for those. (then you wouldn't be seeing C, D, or V either)
Don't you mean "posteriorous"?
The cost may be irrelevant to them, but apparently performance is too, since cat-6 cables are designed to be high quality without spending $300 a foot. Just because they have the money doesn't mean they need to light cigars with $100 bills because "the high-cotton content fibers in US currency, along with the special color-shifting inks, bring out all the richness of the flavor in the tobacco".
Do they get from A to B than you?The question you should be asking is "Do they even bother to do an A vs B double-blind test?"
In that case, it's worse than if was for Ethernet. What the hell are they doing using a crappy connector like RJ-45 for something like that?
They should be using optical anyhow, but they probably would say that "conversion losses" from translating digital information from electrons to photons and back would somehow be bad for the precious fragile audio.
So you mean to say that it's like the belief in anthropogenic global warming, only they use their own money instead of making the rest of us pay for it?
Seriously, though, I think that's the most disappointing thing about this cable. It's Ethernet, so it still uses those crappy RJ-45 connectors. That's like selling an oxygen-free mono-isotopic silver cable, slapping a Radio Shock phono plug on the end, then adding lots of shiny plastic bits over the plug to make it look better. Yeah, like they can do anything to prevent that little plastic clip from breaking off, and we all know it.
Actually, I suppose as long as you stop using a plastic hinge, it could be done. Use a metal lever, preferably with an actual coil spring under it, and bend it back into the connector at the far end to keep it from snagging. But then they wouldn't be ten for a dollar and probably wouldn't work with most crimpers. It just couldn't compete with plastic plugs except in overpriced crap like this.
What they really needed to do was come up with a new ethernet connector, preferably with military style screw caps, then they could sell THREE kinds of overpriced cables (combinations of RJ-45 and the new DenoNet connector), as well as overpriced hubs/switches (and you think Cisco is expensive?), and also be the first, err, only ones on the block with that new connector on the back of their audiophool equipment. I'd rather see a more sensible plug for ethernet that's better than RJ-45, but I know better than to expect the audiophool market to invent it.
Except that the high-bandwidth usenet (binaries) is now mostly concentrated through a handful of NSPs. If they get peering pipes to Giganews, Easynews, newsreader.com, and a few others, they might save enough to make up for their current costs, along with the extra costs that would have been incurred to get that bandwidth over their general backbone connection.
Running a usenet server with good binaries retention/completion is not for the faint of heart. Roadrunner is dropping newsgroups entirely. Sure, this kiddie porn thing may have been the cause for this happening, but it was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
That DMHO is some pretty nasty stuff too.
If you had bothered to read above, you would have seen the answer: "truck drivers".
* hard to park in Best Buy's parking lot, and no room for a DVD shelf in the cab
* likely to be in a different state when it's time to return a rental
* insufficient bandwidth for piracy/legal downloads, and sometimes no bandwidth available at all
...and now I just found this diagram that shows the first sighting was in 2002 in Pasadena!
Is that Pasadena Texas or Pasadena California? I ask because Pasadena Texas is right next to Houston, and these things have been around for six years.
I didn't think so, because of the lack of poison.
And that's after actually thinking about Phase IV the other day when I crushed almost a dozen new fire ant queens within the space of about two hours.
Anyhow, the only thing good about these "crazy ants" seems to be that they kill fire ants. That's it. I don't know if the trade-off is worth it. And I live in Texas, about 200-300 miles from Houston, so of course I hate fire ants with a passion.
You got the link for death wrong.
Summary: DDT on fields = bad. DDT on hut walls (where it can actually control the mosquito population without getting into the nests of cute little birdies) = good.
...until you can't buy a new copy of it any more. What are you going to do when your precious VBA scripts which are company-wide and need to be on every user's computer don't run on the new version, and you can't buy more of the old version? Your choices are 1) throw them away or 2) software piracy (even if you buy the new version that doesn't legally entitle you to the old version, which means you're vulnerable to BSA blackmail)
(Why would someone deploy their scripts that way? Because it's more enterprisey, of course!)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020722h.gif
When morons quit voting the same clowns in term after term. How long has Ted Kennedy been a US Senator?
Actually, I was thinking that I had seen this in Mario Galaxy.
Here is the result of a ping session over a satellite link. It was done at a rest area along IH-35 in Texas:
$ ping xxxxxx.net
PING xxxxxx.net (xx.xx.xx.xx): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=1177.625 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=837.073 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=848.406 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=1072.072 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=1079.655 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=5 ttl=50 time=874.343 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=6 ttl=50 time=965.390 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=7 ttl=50 time=1081.254 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=8 ttl=50 time=844.191 ms
64 bytes from xx.xx.xx.xx: icmp_seq=9 ttl=50 time=903.456 ms
^C
--- xxxxxx.net ping statistics ---
11 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 9% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 837.073/968.346/1177.625/118.230 ms
I'm sure they'll be using TCP ACK spoofing in the ground satellite transceiver boxes.
Its there if you actually try to find it, instead of just whining about it. The biggest difference between e-mail spam and junk mail is that you can usually opt out of junk mail, but trying to opt out of spam is likely to just get you marked as a "live fish" and put on the "spam faster" list.
For pre-approved credit cards: https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
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