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Green Geeks?
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Don't vote for a party if you think just by the name they are pro-environment.
I have been voting for the Canadian Green Party for the last 2 federal elections. I am actually quite conflicted in my reasoning for doing so. I care about the environment more than I care about the economy. However, I do care about the economy. I want it both ways: Good economy, and protection for our irreplaceable environment. I trust the Greens to take care of the environment, but I am up in the air on the rest of their platform. In plain English, I don't trust the Greens to run the country correctly. So why do I vote for them?
I vote for the Greens to send a message to the 'real' parties. If more people vote Green, and the major parties (the Rebublocrats in the US and the Liberals in Canada) lose votes to the Green party it will hopefully encourage said parties to think more about the environment. It will send a message to governments that are only concerned with corporate interests that the citizens actually care about the environment. That there is more to life than stock markets, mutual funds, dividends and bonds.
For a pretty Linux desktop experience there's Debian; for the more seasoned Linux hackers there is Mandrake and SuSE; for the Linux newbies there's Slackware and Gentoo.
This is a joke, right? Gentoo and Slack for Linux newbies? Debian for a pretty desktop? Mandrake for the seasoned hackers? Can I please have some of what you are smoking?
Sure the content lasts only 8 hours, but where exactly do you (and by you I mean Americans) plan to dispose of all these perishable DVD's?
In an effort to protect their valued content, the big media companies are quite content to offer up the environment in exchange. This kind of stuff really makes me sick.
I'm concerned about refresh and resolution. How do they compare?
I would be much more concerned with burn-in than with any refresh rate. We recently got 5 Panasonic plasmas here at work. They are used to show mostly flash animations and the occasional PowerPoint show. Static images can burn-in within hours. We have to take great care to make sure there is never anything left on screen that can cause burn-in. The worst case I have seen is an IE error message, left on overnight. In the morning, we could actually read the text with the monitor turned off. I would be afraid to run a video game, which has static images like score overlays that never go away.
There is a "white wash" feature, which helps remove the burnt-in image, but it is never totally gone. Often, I will pause a game and leave it for an hour or more. Doing so on a plasma would have disastrous effects.
Aside from the burn-in, I have noticed a reduction in brightness, and this is only since last summer. Not a very good lifetime for a product which cost $20,000 CDN last summer.
Re:No, you can't get MTV a la cart, read it again.
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Cable TV A La Carte?
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They can still require you to get basic service and even make you rent a digital box.
How else do you expect to tune in digital channels? I have yet to see a TV with a built in digital tuner. I believe the point is that to get certain premium channels, you must purchase packages of channels, not individual channels.
I have about 50 digital channels to choose from. There is no mandatory package, you just choose the ones you want. A great system with only one problem, a problem which affects all watchers of television:
The majority of the new digital channels are crap.
Donating geek time to charity is something that I have been pondering for quite a while... if I decide to write a piece of software for my favorite church, can I deduct the fair market value of that software on my taxes?
This would mean so much more if you did it because you truly cared about helping, not just about the tax break.
Perhaps he wants to keep form tossing a CD-R into the landfill every time he burns a [S]VCD. If he's getting 30-40 burns per CDRW before tossing it, that's 29-39 fewer disks of plastic, aluminum and die that end up on the trash heap.
Thanks for bringing this up. It should be as important a reason as anything else, but unfortunately it rarely is.
I think I would rather get myself a projector then a flat screen. It would make watching DVD a lot better then staring around a 17" screen. And and makes the ultimate 2d ermersion for thoes 3d games.
Projectors are loud. The ones I have seen here at work have very loud fans in them, and they run constantly. Now, a plasma screen on the other hand...
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Tackling AGP 8X
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I'm kind of curious; could someone please come up with some creative ideas here?
I have often thought about using a second AGP slot for something like a RAID or SCSI card. Perhaps event the main one, on a machine that doesn't really need high-performance video. Or perhaps an AGP sound card? Something that is able to hold a sample set of several hundred megabytes?
Of course, I don't know much about the specifics of how AGP works. Still, it should be technically possible to use all that bandwidth for something aside from 3D accellerators.
I can't say for certain this was simply due to reversing the speaker leads, I was using far more powerful amps than the speakers were rated for but this is one experiment I won't be rushing to try at home.
There is an easier way to test this out. Just play a DVD that has the THX setup clips on it. It plays white noise samples that are in phase and then out of phase. Off the top of my head, Phantom Menace and T2 both have it.
. It looks like im starting an airplane as i flip on rows of switches and hear the fans fire up.
I have the same device and I love it for the same reasons you say. However, the only problem I have is the damn LED's are too bright at night. I have resorted to hanging a shirt over it to cover the lights at night. My latest thought was to find some sort of dark, translucent stickers and cover the LED's, but I don't know where to find such things.
but the origional Generation X was split into 2 groups that were constantly at war with each other. The defining difference between the 2 groups was music, one group listened to Ska and I don't remember what the other group listened to.
Hey, I saw that movie too! It was called Quadrophenia. About the Mods and the Rockers. The mods drove scooters and the rockers drove motorcycles. I'll let you guess who listened to what music.
Nothing says there that one has to join your little club or guild to call themselves an engineer.
All right then. Write down on your resume that you are an engineer. Then apply for a job which requires you to be a professional mechanical engineer. Then explain to the interviewer why you think you are qualified to do that job.
I can't believe you are trivializing the significance of university-educated engineers.
People who sincerely wanted to be tech workers (and I know some myself) but who are having trouble becoming engineers
Why do you throw around the word engineer so much? You are using that term out of context. Are you saying that a highly skilled tech person automatically becomes an engineer? I know of many people who will disagree with you.
Last I checked, to be an "Engineer", you need to be accredited as such from a recognized institution. By recognized I of course mean a respected university, not a technical certification.
Let be honest here. Getting single tracks off P2P networks works pretty well.
But this is the ultimate problem for the RIAA. Most current pop albums have only 1 good song on them. The RIAA makes money because people pay full price for a cd which contains only 1 good song. If I get that song for free, no need to buy the album.
I am not sure how many songs are actually released for sale as a 'single'. The last time I bought a single it was on a '45. I do remember seeing CD singles a while back, and they cost almost 10 bucks. The full album was only 5 dollars more.
Whats that? the pilot doesn't have anything to protect himself with? The stewardess only has coke cans to toss at someone who hid a plastic knife in his jeans? come on... the last hijackings happened because people were afraid of box cutters. Let's not let this get stupid and just make it a pleasure ride for people up there who want to take the plane down.
Are you trying to tell me that if people were armed it would prevent hijackings?
What about when the drunken badass who wants a smoke decides that he is really going to have one, because he has a gun? What about when somebody does indeed pull a gun, and in the midst of a scuffle to disarm the person it accidently goes off killing somebody?
Why not serve free whiskey too? It can be just like the Wild West!
You have no Air Marshals? RCMP aren't allowed to carry weapons?
I am not sure if Canada has Air Marshalls or not. Perhaps somebody else here can answer that. To be honest, I am not even sure if police do carry weapons on planes. I have never seen a cop on a plane, at least not in uniform. If it were up to me, there would be no guns on board. Not even for Air Marshalls. If security is done properly, there is very little risk of any weapons being smuggled aboard. Note that I said properly, which certainly isn't the case right now.
Verification that airport staff aren't impostors, and making sure there's no outsiders there seems like a good thing to me. How is this an invasion of privacy or such?
I agree. In fact, I'd almost prefer that it was mandatory for all staff to be scanned. A Senate Inquiry uncovered some glaring security risks due to airport staff. There are 1000's of employees at Pearson, and I would imagine that it would be fairly simple to create a fake baggage handler id badge. I am not sure who even checks those ids.
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Don't vote for a party if you think just by the name they are pro-environment.
I have been voting for the Canadian Green Party for the last 2 federal elections. I am actually quite conflicted in my reasoning for doing so. I care about the environment more than I care about the economy. However, I do care about the economy. I want it both ways: Good economy, and protection for our irreplaceable environment. I trust the Greens to take care of the environment, but I am up in the air on the rest of their platform.
In plain English, I don't trust the Greens to run the country correctly. So why do I vote for them?
I vote for the Greens to send a message to the 'real' parties. If more people vote Green, and the major parties (the Rebublocrats in the US and the Liberals in Canada) lose votes to the Green party it will hopefully encourage said parties to think more about the environment. It will send a message to governments that are only concerned with corporate interests that the citizens actually care about the environment. That there is more to life than stock markets, mutual funds, dividends and bonds.
What if Ellen Feiss and the Dell Dude mated?
I believe the movie is already in the works.
Dude...
For a pretty Linux desktop experience there's Debian; for the more seasoned Linux hackers there is Mandrake and SuSE; for the Linux newbies there's Slackware and Gentoo.
This is a joke, right? Gentoo and Slack for Linux newbies? Debian for a pretty desktop? Mandrake for the seasoned hackers? Can I please have some of what you are smoking?
Better change your nick, it is awfully similar to this guy's
Sure the content lasts only 8 hours, but where exactly do you (and by you I mean Americans) plan to dispose of all these perishable DVD's?
In an effort to protect their valued content, the big media companies are quite content to offer up the environment in exchange. This kind of stuff really makes me sick.
I'm concerned about refresh and resolution. How do they compare?
I would be much more concerned with burn-in than with any refresh rate. We recently got 5 Panasonic plasmas here at work. They are used to show mostly flash animations and the occasional PowerPoint show. Static images can burn-in within hours. We have to take great care to make sure there is never anything left on screen that can cause burn-in. The worst case I have seen is an IE error message, left on overnight. In the morning, we could actually read the text with the monitor turned off. I would be afraid to run a video game, which has static images like score overlays that never go away.
There is a "white wash" feature, which helps remove the burnt-in image, but it is never totally gone. Often, I will pause a game and leave it for an hour or more. Doing so on a plasma would have disastrous effects.
Aside from the burn-in, I have noticed a reduction in brightness, and this is only since last summer. Not a very good lifetime for a product which cost $20,000 CDN last summer.
They can still require you to get basic service and even make you rent a digital box.
How else do you expect to tune in digital channels? I have yet to see a TV with a built in digital tuner. I believe the point is that to get certain premium channels, you must purchase packages of channels, not individual channels.
I have about 50 digital channels to choose from. There is no mandatory package, you just choose the ones you want. A great system with only one problem, a problem which affects all watchers of television:
The majority of the new digital channels are crap.
Donating geek time to charity is something that I have been pondering for quite a while... if I decide to write a piece of software for my favorite church, can I deduct the fair market value of that software on my taxes?
This would mean so much more if you did it because you truly cared about helping, not just about the tax break.
Perhaps he wants to keep form tossing a CD-R into the landfill every time he burns a [S]VCD. If he's getting 30-40 burns per CDRW before tossing it, that's 29-39 fewer disks of plastic, aluminum and die that end up on the trash heap.
Thanks for bringing this up. It should be as important a reason as anything else, but unfortunately it rarely is.
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I think I would rather get myself a projector then a flat screen. It would make watching DVD a lot better then staring around a 17" screen. And and makes the ultimate 2d ermersion for thoes 3d games.
Projectors are loud. The ones I have seen here at work have very loud fans in them, and they run constantly. Now, a plasma screen on the other hand...
I'm kind of curious; could someone please come up with some creative ideas here?
I have often thought about using a second AGP slot for something like a RAID or SCSI card. Perhaps event the main one, on a machine that doesn't really need high-performance video. Or perhaps an AGP sound card? Something that is able to hold a sample set of several hundred megabytes?
Of course, I don't know much about the specifics of how AGP works. Still, it should be technically possible to use all that bandwidth for something aside from 3D accellerators.
I can't say for certain this was simply due to reversing the speaker leads, I was using far more powerful amps than the speakers were rated for but this is one experiment I won't be rushing to try at home.
There is an easier way to test this out. Just play a DVD that has the THX setup clips on it. It plays white noise samples that are in phase and then out of phase. Off the top of my head, Phantom Menace and T2 both have it.
. It looks like im starting an airplane as i flip on rows of switches and hear the fans fire up.
I have the same device and I love it for the same reasons you say. However, the only problem I have is the damn LED's are too bright at night. I have resorted to hanging a shirt over it to cover the lights at night. My latest thought was to find some sort of dark, translucent stickers and cover the LED's, but I don't know where to find such things.
but the origional Generation X was split into 2 groups that were constantly at war with each other. The defining difference between the 2 groups was music, one group listened to Ska and I don't remember what the other group listened to.
Hey, I saw that movie too! It was called Quadrophenia. About the Mods and the Rockers. The mods drove scooters and the rockers drove motorcycles. I'll let you guess who listened to what music.
Nothing says there that one has to join your little club or guild to call themselves an engineer.
All right then. Write down on your resume that you are an engineer. Then apply for a job which requires you to be a professional mechanical engineer. Then explain to the interviewer why you think you are qualified to do that job.
I can't believe you are trivializing the significance of university-educated engineers.
People who sincerely wanted to be tech workers (and I know some myself) but who are having trouble becoming engineers
Why do you throw around the word engineer so much? You are using that term out of context. Are you saying that a highly skilled tech person automatically becomes an engineer? I know of many people who will disagree with you.
Last I checked, to be an "Engineer", you need to be accredited as such from a recognized institution. By recognized I of course mean a respected university, not a technical certification.
Let be honest here. Getting single tracks off P2P networks works pretty well.
But this is the ultimate problem for the RIAA. Most current pop albums have only 1 good song on them. The RIAA makes money because people pay full price for a cd which contains only 1 good song. If I get that song for free, no need to buy the album.
I am not sure how many songs are actually released for sale as a 'single'. The last time I bought a single it was on a '45. I do remember seeing CD singles a while back, and they cost almost 10 bucks. The full album was only 5 dollars more.
So how much does this DV500 card cost, and - if reasonable - where can one get it.
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Who modded this up? His GeForce 4 doesn't work. Why is it modded up as interesting?
Whats that? the pilot doesn't have anything to protect himself with? The stewardess only has coke cans to toss at someone who hid a plastic knife in his jeans? come on... the last hijackings happened because people were afraid of box cutters. Let's not let this get stupid and just make it a pleasure ride for people up there who want to take the plane down.
Are you trying to tell me that if people were armed it would prevent hijackings?
What about when the drunken badass who wants a smoke decides that he is really going to have one, because he has a gun? What about when somebody does indeed pull a gun, and in the midst of a scuffle to disarm the person it accidently goes off killing somebody?
Why not serve free whiskey too? It can be just like the Wild West!
You have no Air Marshals? RCMP aren't allowed to carry weapons?
I am not sure if Canada has Air Marshalls or not. Perhaps somebody else here can answer that. To be honest, I am not even sure if police do carry weapons on planes. I have never seen a cop on a plane, at least not in uniform. If it were up to me, there would be no guns on board. Not even for Air Marshalls. If security is done properly, there is very little risk of any weapons being smuggled aboard. Note that I said properly, which certainly isn't the case right now.
Verification that airport staff aren't impostors, and making sure there's no outsiders there seems like a good thing to me. How is this an invasion of privacy or such?
I agree. In fact, I'd almost prefer that it was mandatory for all staff to be scanned. A Senate Inquiry uncovered some glaring security risks due to airport staff. There are 1000's of employees at Pearson, and I would imagine that it would be fairly simple to create a fake baggage handler id badge. I am not sure who even checks those ids.
For that matter, you could only enroll people who are authorized to carry weapons on planes anyway.
This is Canada. Nobody is allowed to carry weapons. Anywhere. Especially on planes.