My wife and I watch about 1/2 to 1 hr of TV a day. I'll watch a college football game once in a while, and once in a while we'll watch tv during the evening (daily show, etc).
If we're blaming Clinton for NK, are we going to blame Reagan for Iran? I mean he even sold them weapons. Illegally. It's not like we're only 1 year into the Bush administration. The fact is, Bush is just as much if not more to blame than Clinton. And guess what? I don't blame either of them for the NK problems. I do blame the right for trying to blame everything on Clinton. Sometimes bad shit happens.
If you can't hear the difference between a high bitrate m4a and the original... does it matter?
Yes, it does, mainly for re-encoding. What if he wants to convert them to 128kbps for a portable player. Or what if in 5 years a different compression is used? Personally, I ripped about 120 of my cds to mp3 this year and it's not something I plan on doing again soon. I can completely understand someone never wanting to have to redo it.
thank god for gop. Monopoly? Bah, no such thing in the corporate whore house known as the GOP. Granted the democrats aren't much better, but at least they wear a condom when they screw the public.
This is a great idea. It's coming just as more and more video is appearing online. If you make it a pain in the ass to watch it legally, people will just say screw it and watch it illegally. No buying the DVD, no renting the DVD. They'll get it straight from the net.
BTW, I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm saying it's reality.
It's not just contrast ratio or ppi. I don't even think that is the main issue. It's also the fact that LCDs are bright (harder on eyes), subtly change colors at different angles, are stuck at one viewing angle (the monitor is mounted/sitting somewhere), etc. Monitors also get dirty (yeah, they're cleanable). I don't think it's any single thing. It's sort of a "death by a thousand paper cuts" type thing.
I personally like the web for somethings, and paper for others. Anytime I have something long that I have to read every word, I prefer paper.
It's more likely that the cards at each price point are very similiar. In windows, both ati and nvidia have pretty decent drivers. It'll pretty much depend on if your favorite game has any issues with one or the other. I have an ati card on my windows machine, my wife has an nvidia card, the older kids have an ati card on their windows machine, and our 2 year old has an nvidia card in his edubuntu computer. So it's not like I hate/love either company to an extreme.
My parents talked to me about their lives before I was born
Yeah, I can see that going over real well for some people.
"You mean you didn't wake up when they were putting the shaving cream on..." "Good thing you were drunk, falling off a roof would hurt..." "What's a key party?" "Wow, weren't you afraid you'd get busted?" "Cigarettes were $0.50 a pack when you were 13?"
Mass transit can't replace cars in the US. It can for some people, but I'd guess that number is way less than 1/2. It doesn't matter what I think or you think. Enough people don't want to be forced to use it that it isn't going to happen. Which brings me to this:
The country has moved to the right because the right fights the big battles and the little ones. The left only seems to want to fight the big ones. Yes, improving public transportation is a good idea. However, it's not going to happen on a major scale. Don't ignore the small improvements that can be acceptable to the majority who only lean a little right or a little left.
We saw the effects of gas that only went up to $3 a gallon. People were getting pretty upset. Do you actually think a tax doing that will happen? Fight the battles that can be won, otherwise you'll always lose.
It's simply not practical to get rid of cars in the US. Perhaps if you live in a large city you might think it is, but for most of the country it isn't. Dont get me wrong, I think mass transit is a great idea. But, even I often see busses with 2 or 3 people on them in 1/4 million pop cities. It'd be even worse in 10-100k sized cities.
My point is to provide incentive without forcing anything on anyone. My thought is basically use a free market approach, but give it nudge in the right direction -- a combination of the right and the left.
Taxing fuel isn't the best way to go. It mainly hurts the poor and middle class who might not be able to buy a new car. A better way is to tax the poorest performing vehicles in a class and _use_ that money to subsidize the top ones. This way, if someone needs an SUV, they have incentive to buy a high mpg one. You're still allowing people to choose the vehicle type they need -- what if someone has 3 kids that need car seats? They basically can't legally buy and use a compact car. 30 years ago before car seat laws, sure. But not now.
The other advantage is you create a moving target. A 30 mpg SUV or 50mpg compact car might get a subsidy now, but not in 5 years when the average has been pushed up. No change in the law is needed. Likewise, you're not banning the 10mpg pickup, but the buyer might have to pay $10,000 in extra taxes to buy it. The big key is what comes in must come out (with a reasonable overhead cost). None of that crap where they divert the taxes in to lower housing property tax or give school superintendents a raise.
What if I had spent my college money on yahoo stock? What if I had asked out the girl in HS chemistry? What if I had not drank a case a beer that one night? What if I had learned to speak spanish? What if eric hadn't gone to africa? What if diebold didn't make electronic voting machines? What if ford had planned ahead better?
I've always wondered about the first one, and lately I'm becoming a bit currious about number 6.
And how will this change occur? Sorry, changing the american voting system to something that gives more support to 3rd parties is about as likely to happen as Condi Rice having Al Franken's baby.
actually, I think the speaker cable length thing is so the resistance is identical, not that 16 gauge wire would have much resistance at 10' long. An extra 10 feet of 24 gauge wire could matter, but I don't think many people would use such small wire.
I'd say my $35 dvd player works just fine. It even supports divx and progressive scan.
I wrote our original vacation script and forgot to take that kind of thing into account. I came in one day with 14,000 emails being sent to a senator over night because a user had subscribed to his news letter. His account sent a vacation message and the senator's server would reply to use a different address.
Obviously I fixed it first thing in the morning. If I were a BOFH, I'd have simply put the senator on the blacklist and left the script as is.
Here's my thoughts for a mom & pop version (in addition to what others have mentioned): 1. beef up the highlight/search feature to the level of dictionary search and have it come wikipedia search set up. Maybe have include every search installed in the search box up top. 2. fix the installation of shockwave and quicktime. They're annoying. Just make it work without having to do it manually. 3. include IEview or IEtab. 4. include an image zoomer such as zoom fox.
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My wife and I watch about 1/2 to 1 hr of TV a day. I'll watch a college football game once in a while, and once in a while we'll watch tv during the evening (daily show, etc).
If we're blaming Clinton for NK, are we going to blame Reagan for Iran? I mean he even sold them weapons. Illegally. It's not like we're only 1 year into the Bush administration. The fact is, Bush is just as much if not more to blame than Clinton. And guess what? I don't blame either of them for the NK problems. I do blame the right for trying to blame everything on Clinton. Sometimes bad shit happens.
If you can't hear the difference between a high bitrate m4a and the original ... does it matter?
Yes, it does, mainly for re-encoding. What if he wants to convert them to 128kbps for a portable player. Or what if in 5 years a different compression is used? Personally, I ripped about 120 of my cds to mp3 this year and it's not something I plan on doing again soon. I can completely understand someone never wanting to have to redo it.
thank god for gop. Monopoly? Bah, no such thing in the corporate whore house known as the GOP. Granted the democrats aren't much better, but at least they wear a condom when they screw the public.
This is a great idea. It's coming just as more and more video is appearing online. If you make it a pain in the ass to watch it legally, people will just say screw it and watch it illegally. No buying the DVD, no renting the DVD. They'll get it straight from the net.
BTW, I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm saying it's reality.
It's not just contrast ratio or ppi. I don't even think that is the main issue. It's also the fact that LCDs are bright (harder on eyes), subtly change colors at different angles, are stuck at one viewing angle (the monitor is mounted/sitting somewhere), etc. Monitors also get dirty (yeah, they're cleanable). I don't think it's any single thing. It's sort of a "death by a thousand paper cuts" type thing.
I personally like the web for somethings, and paper for others. Anytime I have something long that I have to read every word, I prefer paper.
One of those independantly confirmed kills was a Tornado
Great, now people in texas are calling for patriots to be deployed around trailer parks.
well, he'd have the Stimulated Emission part of the acronym correct.
It's more likely that the cards at each price point are very similiar. In windows, both ati and nvidia have pretty decent drivers. It'll pretty much depend on if your favorite game has any issues with one or the other. I have an ati card on my windows machine, my wife has an nvidia card, the older kids have an ati card on their windows machine, and our 2 year old has an nvidia card in his edubuntu computer. So it's not like I hate/love either company to an extreme.
My parents talked to me about their lives before I was born
Yeah, I can see that going over real well for some people.
"You mean you didn't wake up when they were putting the shaving cream on..."
"Good thing you were drunk, falling off a roof would hurt..."
"What's a key party?"
"Wow, weren't you afraid you'd get busted?"
"Cigarettes were $0.50 a pack when you were 13?"
Mass transit can't replace cars in the US. It can for some people, but I'd guess that number is way less than 1/2. It doesn't matter what I think or you think. Enough people don't want to be forced to use it that it isn't going to happen. Which brings me to this:
The country has moved to the right because the right fights the big battles and the little ones. The left only seems to want to fight the big ones. Yes, improving public transportation is a good idea. However, it's not going to happen on a major scale. Don't ignore the small improvements that can be acceptable to the majority who only lean a little right or a little left.
We saw the effects of gas that only went up to $3 a gallon. People were getting pretty upset. Do you actually think a tax doing that will happen? Fight the battles that can be won, otherwise you'll always lose.
It's simply not practical to get rid of cars in the US. Perhaps if you live in a large city you might think it is, but for most of the country it isn't. Dont get me wrong, I think mass transit is a great idea. But, even I often see busses with 2 or 3 people on them in 1/4 million pop cities. It'd be even worse in 10-100k sized cities.
My point is to provide incentive without forcing anything on anyone. My thought is basically use a free market approach, but give it nudge in the right direction -- a combination of the right and the left.
Taxing fuel isn't the best way to go. It mainly hurts the poor and middle class who might not be able to buy a new car. A better way is to tax the poorest performing vehicles in a class and _use_ that money to subsidize the top ones. This way, if someone needs an SUV, they have incentive to buy a high mpg one. You're still allowing people to choose the vehicle type they need -- what if someone has 3 kids that need car seats? They basically can't legally buy and use a compact car. 30 years ago before car seat laws, sure. But not now.
The other advantage is you create a moving target. A 30 mpg SUV or 50mpg compact car might get a subsidy now, but not in 5 years when the average has been pushed up. No change in the law is needed. Likewise, you're not banning the 10mpg pickup, but the buyer might have to pay $10,000 in extra taxes to buy it. The big key is what comes in must come out (with a reasonable overhead cost). None of that crap where they divert the taxes in to lower housing property tax or give school superintendents a raise.
Real books don't go out of style with the newest version of the hardware and/or software.
Sure they do, they just have a much longer development cycle. This might be considered like 50s era tech.
What if I had spent my college money on yahoo stock?
What if I had asked out the girl in HS chemistry?
What if I had not drank a case a beer that one night?
What if I had learned to speak spanish?
What if eric hadn't gone to africa?
What if diebold didn't make electronic voting machines?
What if ford had planned ahead better?
I've always wondered about the first one, and lately I'm becoming a bit currious about number 6.
And how will this change occur? Sorry, changing the american voting system to something that gives more support to 3rd parties is about as likely to happen as Condi Rice having Al Franken's baby.
actually, I think the speaker cable length thing is so the resistance is identical, not that 16 gauge wire would have much resistance at 10' long. An extra 10 feet of 24 gauge wire could matter, but I don't think many people would use such small wire.
I'd say my $35 dvd player works just fine. It even supports divx and progressive scan.
Ted Stevens, honorable US Senator from Alasak
Shouldn't that be:
Ted Stevens, honorable US Senator, AlaBallsak.
I wrote our original vacation script and forgot to take that kind of thing into account. I came in one day with 14,000 emails being sent to a senator over night because a user had subscribed to his news letter. His account sent a vacation message and the senator's server would reply to use a different address.
Obviously I fixed it first thing in the morning. If I were a BOFH, I'd have simply put the senator on the blacklist and left the script as is.
Here's my thoughts for a mom & pop version (in addition to what others have mentioned):
1. beef up the highlight/search feature to the level of dictionary search and have it come wikipedia search set up. Maybe have include every search installed in the search box up top.
2. fix the installation of shockwave and quicktime. They're annoying. Just make it work without having to do it manually.
3. include IEview or IEtab.
4. include an image zoomer such as zoom fox.
and not a single one about IBM death stars.
was there a problem with having Nero installed? I haven't played it for a while, but I could have swore I had nero installed without problems.
They went for a few famous people, which I think was a big mistake. However, I doubt Wonder Woman could have charged all that much.
Dell is just trying to grab market share. AMD owns 20% of the desktop market now.
So now AMD has both the chicken and the egg. Hopefully they won't blow it.
When was the last time they got good press? What's next? "Sony CEO shoots man in face"?