have you been in a cave for the last 3 weeks? They've been talking about putting ad's in forever... what do you think the whole subscription thing is about?
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You're a f'ing idiot. I'm sure the two or three thousand people who died on 9/11 collectively thought "Hm, the economy is in a slump, I sure hope somebody kills us so our president can hunt down and destroy these terrorists".
In fact, by your standards, we should just send thank you notes to Osama and Co. , praising them for a job well done, because , as we all know, our economy is booming thanks to the 'war' they spurned.
I guess human casualties are just 'investments' to gain some sort of economic stimulus....
Um... No...
What the hell is wrong with you? Are we to just sit idly by and let people walk all over us, and retire to their nice plush caves..
And lets not even be selfish, how about the hundreds , if not thousands of people the Taliban executed for what wouldnt even be misdemeanors here. I guess you dont care too much about the total and utter disgust for women those people have either. Gee, I guess freeing a society of people is not worth the effort...
Digital Cameras with more pixels. Ever try to explain to Mom why the screen can't show as many dots as the camera took and why good 35 mm fill is still 20000 lines of resulution while the overpirced camera has a few thosuand? What I want to know is why can't these $300 cameras have a lense better than a $10 disposable camera?
The difference between that 10 dollar camera and the 300 dollar one is the cheap zoom lens they throw in on cameras these days.
It is cheap and easy to make a slow, less contrasty zoom lens.. but the quality will be crappy and bla..
it is also cheap, if not cheaper, to make 50mm f/1.8 lens , which has a fixed focal length. Though the zoom might cost the same or even more than the 50mm , the 50mm will blow the hell out of the cheap zoom lens any day...
Also, if you want a zoom lens on par with the quality of 50mm , it very well could cost up to a grand (ie. nikon 80-200mm f2.8 lens, $800 , tamron 80-200 f3.5 - 5.6 probably $300 , but real crappy quality and slow )
but heres the paradox.. customers wont be happy with a new nifty camera and a single focal length lens. They want a wide range of focal lenths so they can take pictures of their cat hacking a hairball, or a nice wide group shot of their ugly relatives all on the same camera...
Those cheap disposable cameras have a built in single focal lenght lens that will deffinately get better picture quality, and be cheaper to produce...
..they would set up this service in Virginia Beach, VA , seeing that the local government approved the use of facial recognition software at the oceanfront, making it the second city in the whole US to use it...
This is one of the reasons I havent switched over to Linux full time lately... And if I was a novice, I would be real hesitant to switch . It seems like everybody who uses linux has to join to Kernel of the week club. And it's not like these bugs are minor annoyances, some of them have been straight out pain-in-the-ass ones.
I used to run linux steadily a couple of years ago, but ever since I saw development type bugs showing up in 'Stable' releases, I got the hell out of there...
Yea, they're a good band, saw them play here a bunch of times.. jazzy versions of greatful dead songs..pretty damn cool.................
whats the commotion?
Um, the ability to purchase goods over the internet using credit cards?
you are the second person to make this comment... do you really believe the government will crack down so fiercly that they will hinder the financial infrastructure of the US? How many constituents would they keep if they actually did that.....
First of all, this does not fall under the ben franklin remark about sacrificing liberty for safety etc etc...
terrorism is a semi-expensive business... it takes money to train people to fly a 757 into a tall building, pay off people, etc etc.
Osama and co. obviously is using one of the oldest tricks in the book to launder money.. gambling.. how many people complained when we shut down the mob run casinos in vegas? not many. why? because it helped shut down that element.
Osama and friends are more like pissed of rich boys than they are 'good muslims'. Chances are we wont find him, so the next best thing is to make it very crappy for him to live...
it's also been shown that they have used the net to transmit messages, and now maybe even TV.. if putting harsh restrictions on cryptography can hinder him as well, what all is lost? It's because of paranoia and people continually fighting the governments efforts that these people pulled off what they did. We complained about military spending, intelligence, etc... and now look what happened..
we say we want the govt to protect us, so when will we let them do their jobs?
I know this will get modded down to -1 and i might as well grab my asbestos suit.... but how hard is it to just take the line out from a 'compatible' cd player and put it into the line in of your sound card , and rip to mp3... ?
Sure, you might have some lossy sound, but if you use quality cables and maybe clean it up with some noise reducing s/w... it'll be about as good as a medium/high quality mp3....
Sure, we should keep fighting these fools , but in the mean time.... just rip it anyway with this method
Personally, I wouldn't end that statement with a '!'... considering the fact that people are losing their jobs.... even if thats the case, it's not really something to be 'happy' or even excited about...
if anything , it's a testament to the crappy way big corporations treat loyal and qualified employees
In May, SunnComm provided anti-copying technology on a CD release by veteran country music singer Charley Pride. But before the CD was shipped to U.S. stores by Nashville, Tenn.-based Music City Records, free copies of the songs appeared on the Internet. Eight of the 15 songs... were posted on a private Web page hosted by Yahoo.
... after they were taken down, all 3 of the people who downloaded the files swamped SunnComm's complaint lines...
i laugh at anybody who gets all their news from a 'mainstream' news network. i've known since i was about 12 that the news folks dont give a crap, and they distort what you say (a friend of mine witnessed a car accident, and was grossly misquoted in a local paper article )....
if they fuck up simple things like interviews, whats the chances they are fucking up the 'real' news...
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Wow, not only are you a chick , but you're a clueless chick...
have you been in a cave for the last 3 weeks? They've been talking about putting ad's in forever... what do you think the whole subscription thing is about?
/me throws sql*kitten a clue
...I hope that thing doesnt have any link lights on it...
/me takes off his tin foil hat..
You're a f'ing idiot. I'm sure the two or three thousand people who died on 9/11 collectively thought "Hm, the economy is in a slump, I sure hope somebody kills us so our president can hunt down and destroy these terrorists".
In fact, by your standards, we should just send thank you notes to Osama and Co. , praising them for a job well done, because , as we all know, our economy is booming thanks to the 'war' they spurned.
I guess human casualties are just 'investments' to gain some sort of economic stimulus....
Um... No...
What the hell is wrong with you? Are we to just sit idly by and let people walk all over us, and retire to their nice plush caves..
And lets not even be selfish, how about the hundreds , if not thousands of people the Taliban executed for what wouldnt even be misdemeanors here. I guess you dont care too much about the total and utter disgust for women those people have either. Gee, I guess freeing a society of people is not worth the effort...
Digital Cameras with more pixels. Ever try to explain to Mom why the screen can't show as many dots as the camera took and why good 35 mm fill is still 20000 lines of resulution while the overpirced camera has a few thosuand? What I want to know is why can't these $300 cameras have a lense better than a $10 disposable camera?
...
.. customers wont be happy with a new nifty camera and a single focal length lens. They want a wide range of focal lenths so they can take pictures of their cat hacking a hairball, or a nice wide group shot of their ugly relatives all on the same camera...
The difference between that 10 dollar camera and the 300 dollar one is the cheap zoom lens they throw in on cameras these days.
It is cheap and easy to make a slow, less contrasty zoom lens.. but the quality will be crappy and bla..
it is also cheap, if not cheaper, to make 50mm f/1.8 lens , which has a fixed focal length. Though the zoom might cost the same or even more than the 50mm , the 50mm will blow the hell out of the cheap zoom lens any day
Also, if you want a zoom lens on par with the quality of 50mm , it very well could cost up to a grand (ie. nikon 80-200mm f2.8 lens, $800 , tamron 80-200 f3.5 - 5.6 probably $300 , but real crappy quality and slow )
but heres the paradox
Those cheap disposable cameras have a built in single focal lenght lens that will deffinately get better picture quality, and be cheaper to produce...
..of who would win in a fight.... a lion or a bear...
..they would set up this service in Virginia Beach, VA , seeing that the local government approved the use of facial recognition software at the oceanfront, making it the second city in the whole US to use it...
This is one of the reasons I havent switched over to Linux full time lately ... And if I was a novice, I would be real hesitant to switch . It seems like everybody who uses linux has to join to Kernel of the week club. And it's not like these bugs are minor annoyances, some of them have been straight out pain-in-the-ass ones.
I used to run linux steadily a couple of years ago, but ever since I saw development type bugs showing up in 'Stable' releases, I got the hell out of there...
...this thing kind of walks like my grandpa...
now just add some depends, a lincoln continental, and some funky flowery shirts and i wouldnt be able to tell the difference
Anyone going to buy a .biz domain?
.biz.....
i aint telling you...
...thats none of your
...cant be faked! Just ask the tourist guy
Yea, they're a good band, saw them play here a bunch of times.. jazzy versions of greatful dead songs..pretty damn cool.................
whats the commotion?
oh
i get it
...slapping the crap out of Dustin Diamond since you have to work with him on your new movie ?
And if not, where do you find the willpower to not slap the crap out of somebody who played "Screech" on Saved By The Bell
... to have your own server slashdotted by a bunch of crazed fans?
Um, the ability to purchase goods over the internet using credit cards?
you are the second person to make this comment... do you really believe the government will crack down so fiercly that they will hinder the financial infrastructure of the US? How many constituents would they keep if they actually did that.....
My account to be compromisable? I doubt the federal government would do anything to put the entire financial infrastructure in jeopardy.....
to put on my asbestos suit.....
... ok ready..
First of all, this does not fall under the ben franklin remark about sacrificing liberty for safety etc etc...
terrorism is a semi-expensive business... it takes money to train people to fly a 757 into a tall building, pay off people, etc etc.
Osama and co. obviously is using one of the oldest tricks in the book to launder money.. gambling.. how many people complained when we shut down the mob run casinos in vegas? not many. why? because it helped shut down that element.
Osama and friends are more like pissed of rich boys than they are 'good muslims'. Chances are we wont find him, so the next best thing is to make it very crappy for him to live...
it's also been shown that they have used the net to transmit messages, and now maybe even TV.. if putting harsh restrictions on cryptography can hinder him as well, what all is lost? It's because of paranoia and people continually fighting the governments efforts that these people pulled off what they did. We complained about military spending, intelligence, etc... and now look what happened..
we say we want the govt to protect us, so when will we let them do their jobs?
...im still running ol'trusty 1.1.59.....
...
but i cant figure out why my box keeps getting owned...
oh well
I know this will get modded down to -1 and i might as well grab my asbestos suit.... but how hard is it to just take the line out from a 'compatible' cd player and put it into the line in of your sound card , and rip to mp3... ?
... it'll be about as good as a medium/high quality mp3....
.... just rip it anyway with this method
Sure, you might have some lossy sound, but if you use quality cables and maybe clean it up with some noise reducing s/w
Sure, we should keep fighting these fools , but in the mean time
why 666k? shouldn't 640k be enough for anybody?
Personally, I wouldn't end that statement with a '!' ... considering the fact that people are losing their jobs.... even if thats the case, it's not really something to be 'happy' or even excited about ...
if anything , it's a testament to the crappy way big corporations treat loyal and qualified employees
In May, SunnComm provided anti-copying technology on a CD release by veteran country music singer Charley Pride. But before the CD was shipped to U.S. stores by Nashville, Tenn.-based Music City Records, free copies of the songs appeared on the Internet. Eight of the 15 songs ... were posted on a private Web page hosted by Yahoo.
... after they were taken down, all 3 of the people who downloaded the files swamped SunnComm's complaint lines...
i laugh at anybody who gets all their news from a 'mainstream' news network. i've known since i was about 12 that the news folks dont give a crap, and they distort what you say (a friend of mine witnessed a car accident, and was grossly misquoted in a local paper article )....
if they fuck up simple things like interviews, whats the chances they are fucking up the 'real' news...
Available in three versions, emphasis is being placed on Windows XP's entertainment components, including tools for organising and sharing digital
XP's enhanced 'spell check' features aren't up to par yet...
you guys are refering to PII's as "old" and "spare"....while im stuck surfing on my pII 366......
guess it's time to upgrade, eh?