Man, I don't know about your projector, but with my Sanyo 30" 1080i CRT machine, the difference between a DVD and even cable's HD channels is/glorious/.
You think supermarket meat is slaughtered HUMANELY?!?!
Put down the crack pipe and go do some very basic research. It's a horrible, horrible life for these food animals, and an even more gruesome death. In most mechanically operated factories, there is a significant chance (I mean happening more than once per day) that an animal can enter dismemberment stages without even being rendered unconscious.
A responsible, conservation-oriented hunter only shoots prey that he can cleanly kill, and when he only disables an animal, tracks it as far as possible in an attempt to end the problem.
I hunt. I don't hunt for food, I can afford all the red meat i could ever eat at the grocery store. I hunt, well, other than the fact that venison tastes great, for fun.
Evolution gave me the skill to hunt down an animal in the woods and kill it. It also gave me teeth that are good at eating both flesh and plant matter. It's a pretty good adrenaline rush finally getting the animal you stalked for 4 hours.
And if I don't kill it, A. it will help destroy my states economy - deer love corn., or B. it will get eaten by a goddamn bear, and then in 10 years, we have three times as many bears.
A funny thing happens when humans fuck with the ecosystem. Sometimes, they kill it off. But hunting manages the effect of a more concentrated herd. But sometimes, they make it a little TOO easy on the ecosystem - think about it. The more land I clear of trees to grow, well, deer food, the more they're going to be able to steal from under my nose. Then there's more deer that the dimished forests can't really handle.
And if you think its some redneck bullshit what i've just spewed, give your local game commission a call. They'll spend their whole day explaining every last detail of it to you. The number of tags they hand out depends on their count of the herd. They even go to rather far lengths to catch and account for poaching (robotic animals) in their counts.
And another thing, while I'm on my soapbox: You want to know the BEST way to teach a kid about the power of a firearm? You guessed it. Not only does it teach what everyone already knows - that guns are tools made to kill, but it also teaches what anti-gun nuts miss a lot: somebody still has to aim the gun and pull the trigger, so learn what the fuck you're doing./soapbox
My Dell does just as good - If its on AC power, it only ever shuts off the screen. On battery, it sleeps at 1 minute idle, and hibernates after an hour or so, or if the battery gets too low.
Many of the problems with ACPI in PCs are caused by third-party drivers.
FireFox seems to have decided this is a cool feature for 2.0 (I hate it). If you enter something that isnt a valid URL (talk.origins is a newsgroup....), it goes to the first Google result for the text, which happens to be some idiot Christian's anti-talk.origins site.
If it weren't for the fact that college-level calc and math scares the shit out of me, I'd be a bio major.
That's where it's at in this world. I'm planning to be a lawyer, but barely a day goes by where I don't hear something to the effect of "We figured out a better way to do something, and if it weren't for life on earth, we'd have never figured it out."
Watching a cell in a microscope is an amazing thing when you know that down to the very core, it's just some simple chemical reaction.
The XBox mod community is one of the best out there.
The XBox in my apartment drives my HDTV, and has the ability to:
-Play any video that can be played under Windows. -Emulate about every system you could ever ask for (yes, even arcade systems via MAME) -Store ROMs/ISOs directly on the HDD -Can access the internet to stream video, and can also stream over WiFi straight from my server.
Now, getting ROMs can be a problem. However, you have to make the choice: Lose your games to commercial obsoletism, or you can get yourself a ROM package (I have the complete libraries for the Master System, NES, Genesis, SNES, and the N64), and enjoy them for life. I feel that since it is very hard to get these games these days anyway (and even when you do, the copyright holder will get nothing, except in the case of the Wii's emulator), that holding on to a little piece of my past is worth the risk.
I'd say I spend four times as much time playing the emulators than I do new games.
That's because we're pussies about it. It should be simple:
A. Murder:
- If you kill someone, you go to jail, unless it was self defense.
- If you/purposefully/ kill someone and it wasn't self defense, you will be killed yourself.
B. Rape:
- If you have intercourse with someone who was of a clear head and refused, you will be killed.
- If you drug someone into unconsciousness in order to have intercourse with them, you will be killed.
C. Treason:
- If you commit treason, you will be killed. This includes tampering with just one (1) vote, or voter itimidation.
It shouldn't be a fucking legal grey area. There should be no life in prison. I don't want to pay to feed the fuckers.
I'm sure it probably could, but try fitting it in a 5.25" drive. Not only that, but the power required would be far too high as to make it unfeasible, but not impossible. You'd probably run into problems with the fact that a CD/DVD drive is expecting the laser to reflect off of the back of the disc (through a clear layer) as opposed to right at the surface - the laser probably would not be able to focus correctly to read the disc.
Yeah, but somehow the software house has to get it to the production house: Burn it on a CD, and they used to all be gold. THat's where the name came from.
That's just the reflective layer. If the laser in your CD-R had enough power to burn more than just the dye in FRONT of that reflective layer, you'd have some serious issues...... dummy.
I'm no network engineer, but wouldn't more bandwidth translate into lower latency? If I understand correctly (and i probably don't), but a single packet on a empty communications channel is going to take a fixed amount of time to get from point A to point B, and unless that channel is saturated, they should all take about the same amount of time.
I didn't articulate my argument very well, and I'm not going to now (I'm at work), but telecommunications providers shouldn't expect me to shell out a large sum every month and then legislate their way out of innovation. Prioritizing packets because you refuse to have enough capacity won't ever be fair. Eventually there's gonna be more people with first class tickets than there are first class seats!
Bell only went digital to save money: Touch Tone surcharge anybody?
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Man, I don't know about your projector, but with my Sanyo 30" 1080i CRT machine, the difference between a DVD and even cable's HD channels is /glorious/.
Did you actually do a sociological study, or did you just pull that assumption out of your twisted panties?
Oh, ok.
Not saying that Home Office did either, tho.
Actually, the United Kingdom Home Office isn't in the United States.
I knew that, and I'm from Pennsyltucky!
Not if your old crap VCR didn't have the automatic gain adjustment! =)
I did have a few wally-world type VCRs that were pretty good at ignoring Macrovision
for hunting. A lot of stuff is illegal for hunting, but target shooting? anything goes.
HUMANE?!
You think supermarket meat is slaughtered HUMANELY?!?!
Put down the crack pipe and go do some very basic research. It's a horrible, horrible life for these food animals, and an even more gruesome death. In most mechanically operated factories, there is a significant chance (I mean happening more than once per day) that an animal can enter dismemberment stages without even being rendered unconscious.
A responsible, conservation-oriented hunter only shoots prey that he can cleanly kill, and when he only disables an animal, tracks it as far as possible in an attempt to end the problem.
Wait, woah buddy.
/soapbox
I hunt. I don't hunt for food, I can afford all the red meat i could ever eat at the grocery store. I hunt, well, other than the fact that venison tastes great, for fun.
Evolution gave me the skill to hunt down an animal in the woods and kill it. It also gave me teeth that are good at eating both flesh and plant matter. It's a pretty good adrenaline rush finally getting the animal you stalked for 4 hours.
And if I don't kill it, A. it will help destroy my states economy - deer love corn., or B. it will get eaten by a goddamn bear, and then in 10 years, we have three times as many bears.
A funny thing happens when humans fuck with the ecosystem. Sometimes, they kill it off. But hunting manages the effect of a more concentrated herd. But sometimes, they make it a little TOO easy on the ecosystem - think about it. The more land I clear of trees to grow, well, deer food, the more they're going to be able to steal from under my nose. Then there's more deer that the dimished forests can't really handle.
And if you think its some redneck bullshit what i've just spewed, give your local game commission a call. They'll spend their whole day explaining every last detail of it to you. The number of tags they hand out depends on their count of the herd. They even go to rather far lengths to catch and account for poaching (robotic animals) in their counts.
And another thing, while I'm on my soapbox: You want to know the BEST way to teach a kid about the power of a firearm? You guessed it. Not only does it teach what everyone already knows - that guns are tools made to kill, but it also teaches what anti-gun nuts miss a lot: somebody still has to aim the gun and pull the trigger, so learn what the fuck you're doing.
My Dell does just as good - If its on AC power, it only ever shuts off the screen. On battery, it sleeps at 1 minute idle, and hibernates after an hour or so, or if the battery gets too low.
Many of the problems with ACPI in PCs are caused by third-party drivers.
The squeakiest, most xenophobic, anti-multicultural, NIMBY wheel gets the grease (and also the vote) (and the media attention).
Trademarks only for that. With patents and copyrights, feel free to allow said offender to raise capital to sue him for :P
That depends on your state. Pennsylvania, my state, does a little more. Some, like Maryland, don't do jack until you try and sell the car.
FireFox seems to have decided this is a cool feature for 2.0 (I hate it). If you enter something that isnt a valid URL (talk.origins is a newsgroup....), it goes to the first Google result for the text, which happens to be some idiot Christian's anti-talk.origins site.
Not here in the US. Don't want to be photographed in public? Stay out of public!
If it weren't for the fact that college-level calc and math scares the shit out of me, I'd be a bio major.
That's where it's at in this world. I'm planning to be a lawyer, but barely a day goes by where I don't hear something to the effect of "We figured out a better way to do something, and if it weren't for life on earth, we'd have never figured it out."
Watching a cell in a microscope is an amazing thing when you know that down to the very core, it's just some simple chemical reaction.
Ok, so what?
A. You allowed your dog to be in the open enough for someone to infect it.
B. You refused to notice different behavior patterns in your dog (ie, he was slow to respond, seemed to be preoccupied every time you called him).
C. You refused to take your dog to the vet often enough to notice this distemper, and he bit someone.
You are liable. Replace dog with PC, and vet with "antivirus" and we're all good.
Because someone who didn't have proper credentials was tearing lines out?
Shit, people around here are so poor that they do it to sell it for scrap metal to buy drugs.
I bet you'd call the cops if your power went out and there were some guys in jumpsuits on the pole who wouldn't tell you who they were...
Holy hell. I missed the problem completely. Sorry.
Don't let arthritis make you give up: Just find the right controller. You can even use your keyboard if you like!
The XBox mod community is one of the best out there.
The XBox in my apartment drives my HDTV, and has the ability to:
-Play any video that can be played under Windows.
-Emulate about every system you could ever ask for (yes, even arcade systems via MAME)
-Store ROMs/ISOs directly on the HDD
-Can access the internet to stream video, and can also stream over WiFi straight from my server.
Now, getting ROMs can be a problem. However, you have to make the choice: Lose your games to commercial obsoletism, or you can get yourself a ROM package (I have the complete libraries for the Master System, NES, Genesis, SNES, and the N64), and enjoy them for life. I feel that since it is very hard to get these games these days anyway (and even when you do, the copyright holder will get nothing, except in the case of the Wii's emulator), that holding on to a little piece of my past is worth the risk.
I'd say I spend four times as much time playing the emulators than I do new games.
That's because we're pussies about it. It should be simple:
/purposefully/ kill someone and it wasn't self defense, you will be killed yourself.
A. Murder:
- If you kill someone, you go to jail, unless it was self defense.
- If you
B. Rape:
- If you have intercourse with someone who was of a clear head and refused, you will be killed.
- If you drug someone into unconsciousness in order to have intercourse with them, you will be killed.
C. Treason:
- If you commit treason, you will be killed. This includes tampering with just one (1) vote, or voter itimidation.
It shouldn't be a fucking legal grey area. There should be no life in prison. I don't want to pay to feed the fuckers.
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The limit on a handheld is 500mW, 3W on a bag phone (In the US, anyway).
My wireless runs at 200mW, but I think that's out of legal parameters.
I'm sure it probably could, but try fitting it in a 5.25" drive. Not only that, but the power required would be far too high as to make it unfeasible, but not impossible. You'd probably run into problems with the fact that a CD/DVD drive is expecting the laser to reflect off of the back of the disc (through a clear layer) as opposed to right at the surface - the laser probably would not be able to focus correctly to read the disc.
Yeah, but somehow the software house has to get it to the production house: Burn it on a CD, and they used to all be gold. THat's where the name came from.
That's just the reflective layer. If the laser in your CD-R had enough power to burn more than just the dye in FRONT of that reflective layer, you'd have some serious issues... ... dummy.
I'm no network engineer, but wouldn't more bandwidth translate into lower latency? If I understand correctly (and i probably don't), but a single packet on a empty communications channel is going to take a fixed amount of time to get from point A to point B, and unless that channel is saturated, they should all take about the same amount of time.
I didn't articulate my argument very well, and I'm not going to now (I'm at work), but telecommunications providers shouldn't expect me to shell out a large sum every month and then legislate their way out of innovation. Prioritizing packets because you refuse to have enough capacity won't ever be fair. Eventually there's gonna be more people with first class tickets than there are first class seats!
Bell only went digital to save money: Touch Tone surcharge anybody?