Well, I disagree with you on where the demarcation of freedom is.
If you don't think that democratic government is worthwhile then we don't have anything to talk about. I'm not denying you your right to control your own phone. I know a guy who wraps his cell phone in aluminum foil except when he's expecting a call or wants to make a call. Many do not answer their phones, or screen their calls whether by answering machine or voicemail or simply not answering when the number is unknown to them. I'm not spoofing my phone number, I'm not saying I'm anybody except who I am.
Nobody's required to wait patiently for another to finish their sentences on the phone, nobody's required to answer their phone. Whether my calls are annoying or not is firmly in the mind of the recipient. If somebody tells me they're a hardcore Republican and they're voting for Otter for governor and Risch for lt. governor then the party isn't going to call or mail them again, and this poll, which takes less than two minutes, will be the last time they're contacted. If one's a Democrat and will support LaRocco and Brady for lt. gov and gov, then they can get some signs for free, which maybe they would've wanted and not otherwise been able to get.
America and American democracy was founded on the notion that people should be engaged in their government.
I'm volunteering locally (Idaho's 1st District) for the Democratic Party. A few nights ago I called people for the first time after having only gone door-to-door beforehand. Let me share my perspective...
First, I'm not doing any fundraising, over the phone or in person. I am doing polling, and if people are inclined to vote Democratic or they don't know about our candidates we're going to send them some mail and ask them to vote for our candidates. If the people are Republicans and will vote for the Republican nominees--we don't want to waste our time and money. I'm a political science major and I could get into some hardcore theoretical stuff but it's late.
Anyway. So I'm not doing fundraising. Our lists aren't bought from shady Internet types, or Radio Shack, or tire companies, or credit card companies--they're from public voter registration data. Voters need not include phone numbers when they register, and some don't.
I hate to be an elitist, here. But to suggest that a good fuck-you answer when you're contacted is to tell the person you're going to vote for the other party, to say that out of spite, I don't want your vote, anyway. I haven't been paid $1, in this land of $3/gal gasoline and my beat-up `89 Ford Tempo averaging 22mpg city. I have free minutes after 7pm but I'm paying $50/month for those free minutes. I am an unpaid volunteer working because I believe in the party. Have you no decency, sir? Are you so jaded that you refuse to believe anybody is ever acting in anything other than purely their own self-interest? Do you think that whoever's calling you, paid or not, asking for money or not--do you think you're really getting back at them if you vote for their opponent?
I can only speak for myself but if someone strays from the questions I ask (which are purely "do you usually vote Democratic or Republican," "do you usually vote a straight ticket," "are you inclined or disinclined to support [candidate] for [office]," and if they're giving enthusiastic positive answers I'll ask if they'd like lawn signs for free) I respectfully acknowledge them with "that's fine" or "I understand." Sometimes I'll get people who want to talk my ear off, and I sometimes have to resort to a courteous "I'm afraid we're only doing polling on these specific questions tonight." Because we are. I have about eight lines, each with a name and the numbers 1-5. That's how I can put down your answer. I don't hang up on people, though I have been hung up on. I was once introducing myself and then somebody started talking over me and said "I'm not interested in donating any money." Before I could tell her I'm only doing polling--which, sincerely, I am--she'd hung up on me. Who's the asshole, here? The asshole who is asking Americans about their political beliefs or the asshole who's hanging up on somebody without letting the other person finish? It's no skin off my back. If someone tells me they don't vote, I'll thank them for their time and get off the phone.
There's a particular set of bills that was passed a long time ago, these couple of amendments to the Constitution, and they guaranteed some freedoms: freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of speech, some others. I'm getting in touch with my fellow Americans because I believe in the candidates and the platforms the Democratic Party of Idaho supports. I respect the beliefs of those who disagree. But it's my right and, I feel, my duty to support political candidates who I feel will do a better job. That's why I don't vote a straight ticket when I vote. Forgive me, but I personally believe that voting and being politically involved is virtuous.
The solution to problems that freedom brings isn't less freedom, it's more. If you have no political convictions then I suggest you courteously tell them as much and ask to not be called anymore. If they insist then you can progress or hang up as you'd like. If you have political convictions, though, maybe you can just tell them you'd like to keep them confidential. I really don't know what to tell you. If you think they're slime then this is probably falling on deaf ears.
I know several people who leave theirs open for neighbors and friends to use without encumberance. It's a nice gesture, one in which a private good becomes a public good via goodwill. Even with bittorrent running I'm not using all of my bandwidth at all times.
Besides this, do we mandate that folks lock their car and house doors? Are there laws against leaving a key under the rug, on the door frame, or below your car door?
That quote is apocryphal. Gates denies ever having said the bit about 640K of memory.
But if he had said that, and had said it in 1981, look where the computer industry went from `76 to `86. From hobby to sixteen million units sold in a year. At $300 or more each. I don't think Gates's idea is so far-fetched. And, you know, I'll take a guess and say Gates has more experience, maybe knows trends a little better than you. I don't know if you made any predictions about the Xbox, but it's been very successful for the company (in terms of units sold, at least).
Everything's in \Music. \Music has no files, only directories. Most of these are band names (e.g. \Music\Built to Spill) or compilation titles (e.g. \Music\Wedding Crashers). I have some genre titles and decades for assorted songs/singles (e.g. \Music\80s, \Music\Techno, \Music\Jazz) but I haven't fully come to a decision on what to do about those, yet, in this broader framework.
In the individual directories under \Music I have all albums named in the format Artist - Album - Track - Title. I use Tag & Rename to... well... tag & rename my collection. I think these four fields are the most one needs to have in the filename. Some people go with \Artist\Album\Track. Title, as I believe iTunes does if it manages one's library, but I like to minimize the number of directories. Anyway, related to that, if an album is two or more discs then I use the "Disc" ID3v2 field and then use T&R to number the album from track 01 to track xx, with all discs having the same album title. Likewise, year should only be in the ID3 tag.
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Geez, with your post title ("I read the first half of the article") I figured you were going to say you rounded down and hadn't read any. You missed a golden opportunity, bub.
I'd like to see you respond to that. What's better about HD-DVD? It won't be "nearly as horribly DRM-infested" but I can be pretty fucking sure Microsoft isn't going to back something that can be cracked with much ease. That besides, I don't bother backing up my DVDs for personal use. If I'm backing up DVDs it's for illegal use. I don't know anybody who bothers backing up their own DVDs for personal use. HD-DVDs won't let you, and Blu-Ray won't let you. Not out of the box. There's going to have to be some HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Jon before that happens.
Definitely... Another problem with the study should be apparent with a little bit of critical thinking: they're basing "secure" and "insecure" based on reported vulnerabilities for a particular six-month period (or however long it is). Over the life of Firefox, and the life of IE--hell, even just since FF 1.0 was released and the latest point revision of IE--I should think that IE is doing rather worse.
I have a domain, glitterandtwang.org, which is hosted by suffusions.net. Suffusions.net has an SMTP server, but it requires authentication (in the form of having checked your email in the last 15 minutes over POP) and so I use my ISP's SMTP server. So my email is from dexter@suffusions.net, but it's sent from adelphia.net... am I going to be shitlisted by everybody with SPF and Sender ID?
"Using data on Nobel Prize winners and great inventors, the author shows that the age at which noted innovations are produced has increased by approximately 6 years over the 20th Century. This runs contrary to accepted wisdom in science, which says that most scientists peak in their 20s."...unless the age used to be 19-23, of course.
I'm some guy from Idaho. I visited Austin for a few weeks last year to go to the Song Fight concert held there, and I went to the Drafthouse four times, and God damn if that isn't the best theater ever.
Veritas, across the street from Google in Mountain View, California, is simply renting out a theater for its employees to attend a showing at 10:00 AM opening day.
My goodness, the probably second most famous governor in the nation and the post doesn't even mention his name. This guy, Jeb Bush, is the same guy that did all that Terri Shiavo shit, remember? Just a few weeks ago? Brother of the president?
I've always read it's inadvisable even if one has a lot of RAM. Here's some quotes from this page:
Can the Virtual Memory be turned off on a really large machine?
Strictly speaking Virtual Memory is always in operation and cannot be "turned off." What is meant by such wording is "set the system to use no page file space at all."
Doing this would waste a lot of the RAM. The reason is that when programs ask for an allocation of Virtual memory space, they may ask for a great deal more than they ever actually bring into use -- the total may easily run to hundreds of megabytes. These addresses have to be assigned to somewhere by the system. If there is a page file available, the system can assign them to it -- if there is not, they have to be assigned to RAM, locking it out from any actual use.
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Why is there so little Free RAM?
Windows will always try to find some use for all of RAM -- even a trivial one. If nothing else it will retain code of programs in RAM after they exit, in case they are needed again. Anything left over will be used to cache further files -- just in case they are needed. But these uses will be dropped instantly should some other use come along. Thus there should rarely be any significant amount of RAM 'free'. That term is a misnomer -- it ought to be 'RAM for which Windows can currently find no possible use'. The adage is: 'Free RAM is wasted RAM'. Programs that purport to 'manage' or 'free up' RAM are pandering to a delusion that only such 'Free' RAM is available for fresh uses. That is not true, and these programs often result in reduced performance and may result in run-away growth of the page file.
Wow, today my friend got fired for blogging about the Nintendo DS. He was working for Guillemot in NYC and didn't say anything that hadn't already been made public by Nintendo, and Guillemot OK'd that he could blog about it so long as he didn't reveal anything proprietary or whatever, but then after some DS hacking site linked to his blog as a source of "insider information" (their words), Nintendo caught wind and sent a notice to Guillemot about it, and they considered it a breach of contract (after they'd already said the blog posts were okay), and had to fire him. Oh well, he hated the job anyway.
I really don't care about customizable soundtracks and the Xbox's HDD. I don't care about HDDs when there's memory left on my memory card (as there generally is), and I don't care about customizable soundtracks when I have 1,100 hours of mp3s on my computer, which sits directly adjacent to my TV. Besides that, I really like the ambient soundtrack of Metroid Prime, and the punk rock in Tony Hawk's Underground, etc., etc.
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Well, I disagree with you on where the demarcation of freedom is.
If you don't think that democratic government is worthwhile then we don't have anything to talk about. I'm not denying you your right to control your own phone. I know a guy who wraps his cell phone in aluminum foil except when he's expecting a call or wants to make a call. Many do not answer their phones, or screen their calls whether by answering machine or voicemail or simply not answering when the number is unknown to them. I'm not spoofing my phone number, I'm not saying I'm anybody except who I am.
Nobody's required to wait patiently for another to finish their sentences on the phone, nobody's required to answer their phone. Whether my calls are annoying or not is firmly in the mind of the recipient. If somebody tells me they're a hardcore Republican and they're voting for Otter for governor and Risch for lt. governor then the party isn't going to call or mail them again, and this poll, which takes less than two minutes, will be the last time they're contacted. If one's a Democrat and will support LaRocco and Brady for lt. gov and gov, then they can get some signs for free, which maybe they would've wanted and not otherwise been able to get.
America and American democracy was founded on the notion that people should be engaged in their government.
I'm volunteering locally (Idaho's 1st District) for the Democratic Party. A few nights ago I called people for the first time after having only gone door-to-door beforehand. Let me share my perspective...
First, I'm not doing any fundraising, over the phone or in person. I am doing polling, and if people are inclined to vote Democratic or they don't know about our candidates we're going to send them some mail and ask them to vote for our candidates. If the people are Republicans and will vote for the Republican nominees--we don't want to waste our time and money. I'm a political science major and I could get into some hardcore theoretical stuff but it's late.
Anyway. So I'm not doing fundraising. Our lists aren't bought from shady Internet types, or Radio Shack, or tire companies, or credit card companies--they're from public voter registration data. Voters need not include phone numbers when they register, and some don't.
I hate to be an elitist, here. But to suggest that a good fuck-you answer when you're contacted is to tell the person you're going to vote for the other party, to say that out of spite, I don't want your vote, anyway. I haven't been paid $1, in this land of $3/gal gasoline and my beat-up `89 Ford Tempo averaging 22mpg city. I have free minutes after 7pm but I'm paying $50/month for those free minutes. I am an unpaid volunteer working because I believe in the party. Have you no decency, sir? Are you so jaded that you refuse to believe anybody is ever acting in anything other than purely their own self-interest? Do you think that whoever's calling you, paid or not, asking for money or not--do you think you're really getting back at them if you vote for their opponent?
I can only speak for myself but if someone strays from the questions I ask (which are purely "do you usually vote Democratic or Republican," "do you usually vote a straight ticket," "are you inclined or disinclined to support [candidate] for [office]," and if they're giving enthusiastic positive answers I'll ask if they'd like lawn signs for free) I respectfully acknowledge them with "that's fine" or "I understand." Sometimes I'll get people who want to talk my ear off, and I sometimes have to resort to a courteous "I'm afraid we're only doing polling on these specific questions tonight." Because we are. I have about eight lines, each with a name and the numbers 1-5. That's how I can put down your answer. I don't hang up on people, though I have been hung up on. I was once introducing myself and then somebody started talking over me and said "I'm not interested in donating any money." Before I could tell her I'm only doing polling--which, sincerely, I am--she'd hung up on me. Who's the asshole, here? The asshole who is asking Americans about their political beliefs or the asshole who's hanging up on somebody without letting the other person finish? It's no skin off my back. If someone tells me they don't vote, I'll thank them for their time and get off the phone.
There's a particular set of bills that was passed a long time ago, these couple of amendments to the Constitution, and they guaranteed some freedoms: freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of speech, some others. I'm getting in touch with my fellow Americans because I believe in the candidates and the platforms the Democratic Party of Idaho supports. I respect the beliefs of those who disagree. But it's my right and, I feel, my duty to support political candidates who I feel will do a better job. That's why I don't vote a straight ticket when I vote. Forgive me, but I personally believe that voting and being politically involved is virtuous.
The solution to problems that freedom brings isn't less freedom, it's more. If you have no political convictions then I suggest you courteously tell them as much and ask to not be called anymore. If they insist then you can progress or hang up as you'd like. If you have political convictions, though, maybe you can just tell them you'd like to keep them confidential. I really don't know what to tell you. If you think they're slime then this is probably falling on deaf ears.
I know several people who leave theirs open for neighbors and friends to use without encumberance. It's a nice gesture, one in which a private good becomes a public good via goodwill. Even with bittorrent running I'm not using all of my bandwidth at all times.
Besides this, do we mandate that folks lock their car and house doors? Are there laws against leaving a key under the rug, on the door frame, or below your car door?
That quote is apocryphal. Gates denies ever having said the bit about 640K of memory.
But if he had said that, and had said it in 1981, look where the computer industry went from `76 to `86. From hobby to sixteen million units sold in a year. At $300 or more each. I don't think Gates's idea is so far-fetched. And, you know, I'll take a guess and say Gates has more experience, maybe knows trends a little better than you. I don't know if you made any predictions about the Xbox, but it's been very successful for the company (in terms of units sold, at least).
I manage a collection of... ahem... some size.
... well ... tag & rename my collection. I think these four fields are the most one needs to have in the filename. Some people go with \Artist\Album\Track. Title, as I believe iTunes does if it manages one's library, but I like to minimize the number of directories. Anyway, related to that, if an album is two or more discs then I use the "Disc" ID3v2 field and then use T&R to number the album from track 01 to track xx, with all discs having the same album title. Likewise, year should only be in the ID3 tag.
Everything's in \Music. \Music has no files, only directories. Most of these are band names (e.g. \Music\Built to Spill) or compilation titles (e.g. \Music\Wedding Crashers). I have some genre titles and decades for assorted songs/singles (e.g. \Music\80s, \Music\Techno, \Music\Jazz) but I haven't fully come to a decision on what to do about those, yet, in this broader framework.
In the individual directories under \Music I have all albums named in the format Artist - Album - Track - Title. I use Tag & Rename to
So. HTH.
Yep.
Today's the day I make the switch to uTorrent. It's a single executable file less than 160 kb in size.
WHY DOES THIS PIECE OF SHIT DIRECTOR KEEP GETTING WORK.
SERIOUSLY.
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Geez, with your post title ("I read the first half of the article") I figured you were going to say you rounded down and hadn't read any. You missed a golden opportunity, bub.
http://slate.com/id/2110495/
I'd like to see you respond to that. What's better about HD-DVD? It won't be "nearly as horribly DRM-infested" but I can be pretty fucking sure Microsoft isn't going to back something that can be cracked with much ease. That besides, I don't bother backing up my DVDs for personal use. If I'm backing up DVDs it's for illegal use. I don't know anybody who bothers backing up their own DVDs for personal use. HD-DVDs won't let you, and Blu-Ray won't let you. Not out of the box. There's going to have to be some HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Jon before that happens.
You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you... god damn you all to helllllllll!
Definitely... Another problem with the study should be apparent with a little bit of critical thinking: they're basing "secure" and "insecure" based on reported vulnerabilities for a particular six-month period (or however long it is). Over the life of Firefox, and the life of IE--hell, even just since FF 1.0 was released and the latest point revision of IE--I should think that IE is doing rather worse.
Hmm.
I have a domain, glitterandtwang.org, which is hosted by suffusions.net. Suffusions.net has an SMTP server, but it requires authentication (in the form of having checked your email in the last 15 minutes over POP) and so I use my ISP's SMTP server. So my email is from dexter@suffusions.net, but it's sent from adelphia.net... am I going to be shitlisted by everybody with SPF and Sender ID?
"Using data on Nobel Prize winners and great inventors, the author shows that the age at which noted innovations are produced has increased by approximately 6 years over the 20th Century. This runs contrary to accepted wisdom in science, which says that most scientists peak in their 20s." ...unless the age used to be 19-23, of course.
I'm some guy from Idaho. I visited Austin for a few weeks last year to go to the Song Fight concert held there, and I went to the Drafthouse four times, and God damn if that isn't the best theater ever.
Veritas, across the street from Google in Mountain View, California, is simply renting out a theater for its employees to attend a showing at 10:00 AM opening day.
My goodness, the probably second most famous governor in the nation and the post doesn't even mention his name. This guy, Jeb Bush, is the same guy that did all that Terri Shiavo shit, remember? Just a few weeks ago? Brother of the president?
I've always read it's inadvisable even if one has a lot of RAM. Here's some quotes from this page:
Can the Virtual Memory be turned off on a really large machine?
Strictly speaking Virtual Memory is always in operation and cannot be "turned off." What is meant by such wording is "set the system to use no page file space at all."
Doing this would waste a lot of the RAM. The reason is that when programs ask for an allocation of Virtual memory space, they may ask for a great deal more than they ever actually bring into use -- the total may easily run to hundreds of megabytes. These addresses have to be assigned to somewhere by the system. If there is a page file available, the system can assign them to it -- if there is not, they have to be assigned to RAM, locking it out from any actual use.
--
Why is there so little Free RAM?
Windows will always try to find some use for all of RAM -- even a trivial one. If nothing else it will retain code of programs in RAM after they exit, in case they are needed again. Anything left over will be used to cache further files -- just in case they are needed. But these uses will be dropped instantly should some other use come along. Thus there should rarely be any significant amount of RAM 'free'. That term is a misnomer -- it ought to be 'RAM for which Windows can currently find no possible use'. The adage is: 'Free RAM is wasted RAM'. Programs that purport to 'manage' or 'free up' RAM are pandering to a delusion that only such 'Free' RAM is available for fresh uses. That is not true, and these programs often result in reduced performance and may result in run-away growth of the page file.
Jesus Christ, buddy! "(As usual, please -- confine yourself to one question per post.)"
We generally don't have volunteers that work one job, forty hours a week, fifty weeks a year.
Wow, today my friend got fired for blogging about the Nintendo DS. He was working for Guillemot in NYC and didn't say anything that hadn't already been made public by Nintendo, and Guillemot OK'd that he could blog about it so long as he didn't reveal anything proprietary or whatever, but then after some DS hacking site linked to his blog as a source of "insider information" (their words), Nintendo caught wind and sent a notice to Guillemot about it, and they considered it a breach of contract (after they'd already said the blog posts were okay), and had to fire him. Oh well, he hated the job anyway.
This is the cock guarding the henhouse.
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They didn't win a court case about it. MGM decided they would settle without admitting fault, and the plaintiffs agreed to do so.
I really don't care about customizable soundtracks and the Xbox's HDD. I don't care about HDDs when there's memory left on my memory card (as there generally is), and I don't care about customizable soundtracks when I have 1,100 hours of mp3s on my computer, which sits directly adjacent to my TV. Besides that, I really like the ambient soundtrack of Metroid Prime, and the punk rock in Tony Hawk's Underground, etc., etc.