The way things are going it seems like it might come to a point where a state, say Texas, tells the Federal government what it can do with itself and decides to forgo the money.
The problem with that is that I see no consequence that does not involve a massive retaliatory action from from Federal government, especially with the current administration.
I think it's going to continue until a state gets pissed off enough to try seceding, and then all bets are off. I don't see the U.S. surviving this century in its current form, and I would not put it past the Federal government (again, especially under the current Administration) to send in troops.
It's not that I want to see a Second American Revolution. That would be horrible. It's that I think that's what it's going to take to restore this country, or at least part of it, to something resembling what it was meant to be, what should be, and what will actually work.
Oh, and they should have abolished pennies a long time ago like Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. There's no legitimate reason to keep them.
one can now begin making the inference that those who persist in reading it are suspect, as they lack the critical thinking faculties required to discern reality from fantasy, truth from lies, and argument from propaganda
So, you're saying that this brings the WSJ into parity with the rest of the main-stream media...
Dig a little deeper. These folks are not alone. The gloom-and-doom predictions are being demonstrated to be more wrong with every passing month. I wouldn't say the whole AGW concept has been thoroughly debunked, but plenty of the people pushing it most strongly have been. The level of politics involved in the debate has been absurd for many years... on both sides. Nonetheless, the global-warming side that is rapidly losing credibility and with good reason. Even if they turn out to be right all along, so many people on that side have been shown to have no integrity at all and have put politics ahead of science. Nothing in science is _ever_ settled and by exaggerating their predicts, often ridiculously so, they have done more harm to their argument than actual facts could ever mitigate.
Of course it's your ridiculous rhetoric that prompted my comment. If you merely expressed the skepticism of your response to me then I wouldn't have seen you as a zealot. You might want to keep that in mind if you ever hope to be persuasive.
I bricked a Clip with Rockbox. I haven't gotten around to figuring out if I can unbrick it.
Clip+, which is probably what you're actually referring to, comes with a MicroSD slot and supports OGG out of the box. RB supports it too, but I've been leery since the Clip incident.
The Clip+ is an excellent device with or without Rockbox.
I would think an initiative to create open hardware would be exactly what/. readers want to hear about. I know I do.
The Rockbox team have been very successful in getting their software to work on a huge variety of devices, but that doesn't contradict anything lkcl said. It took a long time for RB to be ported to the Fuze, for instance.
The Sansa e Series is totally awesome. Too bad they don't make them any more. The Fuze and Clip+ are decent and I haven't seen a Fuze+ yet. But as far as I'm concerned, Sansa nailed it with the e Series, any further improvements have been gravy. Of course, Rockbox makes 'em better, but the Fuze and Clip+ support OGG out of the box and I bricked a Clip with RB, so I was leery of trying it with a Clip+. OTOH, the stock firmware in the the Clip+ does the job.
Oh, and battery life? Unless I'm using it for video, I can almost forget I need to charge it.
Another advantage: I have 4 kids. They don't need phones and I won't buy them phones because it would be an absurd waste of money. However, I bought them all Sansa e250's, installed Rockbox and they love them. I use my own on a daily basis. With a 32GB MicroSD card, it's got a well-designed UI and does its job perfectly.
There are many, many good reasons to own and use an MP3 player. Some people seem to be snobs because they can afford an iPhone or some other overpriced gadget that does a bazillion things, but usually none of them as good as a dedicated device (and that might even include making telephone calls).
Enjoy your smartphones if you want. They're pretty cool devices. Just don't think it's the only way to go, or that you are somehow superior for using one.
p.s. I have a dumbphone too. Yes, it actually can play MP3, but I can't imagine wanting to bother with it when my ancient, little Sansa is better than it could ever be.
What's even cooler is that newer Sansas do support Vorbis natively. I still prefer Rockbox, but I think Samsung really gets it.
So maybe Congress can create a health-care "reform" bill so complicated no one can understand it, but filled with enough time bombs and hidden boobytraps to eventually crash the private insurance industry. Wow, that's an incredibly cynical idea. I can't believe I could think of something so sinister.
Well, the file system should be loosened so it can move about the whole partition. Otherwise you lose space.
Besides, the defragmentation engine in NT, which was licensed from the folks who make Diskeeper, is extremely robust. I'm as much of a critic of Microsoft as they come; my opinion of Microsoft borders on hatred. But I've got nothing bad to say about NTFS other than to comment the need for constant defragging is a pain. But as far as robustness, in almost 20 years, I can honestly say I've almost never seen hard drive corruption with NTFS that wasn't associated with a hardware failure... and even when I wasn't sure, I'd give it the benefit of the doubt based on my experience. I don't ever recall seeing a power outage toast an NTFS partition. I'm not saying it's not possible, but I've used the NT line since 3.51 on many, many computers and since NTFS came along, it's one of the few things I have not felt the need to complain about.
There are plenty of things to criticize Microsoft about, and I'm usually first in line to do so, but I really don't think NTFS is one place where they have failed.
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The way things are going it seems like it might come to a point where a state, say Texas, tells the Federal government what it can do with itself and decides to forgo the money.
The problem with that is that I see no consequence that does not involve a massive retaliatory action from from Federal government, especially with the current administration.
I think it's going to continue until a state gets pissed off enough to try seceding, and then all bets are off. I don't see the U.S. surviving this century in its current form, and I would not put it past the Federal government (again, especially under the current Administration) to send in troops.
It's not that I want to see a Second American Revolution. That would be horrible. It's that I think that's what it's going to take to restore this country, or at least part of it, to something resembling what it was meant to be, what should be, and what will actually work.
Oh, and they should have abolished pennies a long time ago like Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. There's no legitimate reason to keep them.
Why bother when their government can buy them?
one can now begin making the inference that those who persist in reading it are suspect, as they lack the critical thinking faculties required to discern reality from fantasy, truth from lies, and argument from propaganda
So, you're saying that this brings the WSJ into parity with the rest of the main-stream media...
The second verse of every national anthem ends up being reduced to "ner ner ner ner ner..." because no one knows the words.
That's about 3 steps too many. That's why it doesn't happen.
Yeah, but the Nonsense is down the street in the Capitol Building and across the way in the White House.
Liberia might count, but unfortunately, it hasn't worked out so well.
When democracy fails, yes. I think it's evident that all the Founding Fathers did. And if you don't believe me, read the Federalist Papers.
They did, after all, start, fight and win a war for what they believed in.
I thought it _was_ Washington, DC.
I couldn't figure out the AC's point either. "I can write a virus so I shouldn't use software?"
Dig a little deeper. These folks are not alone. The gloom-and-doom predictions are being demonstrated to be more wrong with every passing month. I wouldn't say the whole AGW concept has been thoroughly debunked, but plenty of the people pushing it most strongly have been. The level of politics involved in the debate has been absurd for many years... on both sides. Nonetheless, the global-warming side that is rapidly losing credibility and with good reason. Even if they turn out to be right all along, so many people on that side have been shown to have no integrity at all and have put politics ahead of science. Nothing in science is _ever_ settled and by exaggerating their predicts, often ridiculously so, they have done more harm to their argument than actual facts could ever mitigate.
Of course it's your ridiculous rhetoric that prompted my comment. If you merely expressed the skepticism of your response to me then I wouldn't have seen you as a zealot. You might want to keep that in mind if you ever hope to be persuasive.
I think the problem has nothing to do with you and everything to do with idiots.
I bricked a Clip with Rockbox. I haven't gotten around to figuring out if I can unbrick it.
Clip+, which is probably what you're actually referring to, comes with a MicroSD slot and supports OGG out of the box. RB supports it too, but I've been leery since the Clip incident.
The Clip+ is an excellent device with or without Rockbox.
I would think an initiative to create open hardware would be exactly what /. readers want to hear about. I know I do.
The Rockbox team have been very successful in getting their software to work on a huge variety of devices, but that doesn't contradict anything lkcl said. It took a long time for RB to be ported to the Fuze, for instance.
The Sansa e Series is totally awesome. Too bad they don't make them any more. The Fuze and Clip+ are decent and I haven't seen a Fuze+ yet. But as far as I'm concerned, Sansa nailed it with the e Series, any further improvements have been gravy. Of course, Rockbox makes 'em better, but the Fuze and Clip+ support OGG out of the box and I bricked a Clip with RB, so I was leery of trying it with a Clip+. OTOH, the stock firmware in the the Clip+ does the job.
Oh, and battery life? Unless I'm using it for video, I can almost forget I need to charge it.
Another advantage: I have 4 kids. They don't need phones and I won't buy them phones because it would be an absurd waste of money. However, I bought them all Sansa e250's, installed Rockbox and they love them. I use my own on a daily basis. With a 32GB MicroSD card, it's got a well-designed UI and does its job perfectly.
There are many, many good reasons to own and use an MP3 player. Some people seem to be snobs because they can afford an iPhone or some other overpriced gadget that does a bazillion things, but usually none of them as good as a dedicated device (and that might even include making telephone calls).
Enjoy your smartphones if you want. They're pretty cool devices. Just don't think it's the only way to go, or that you are somehow superior for using one.
p.s. I have a dumbphone too. Yes, it actually can play MP3, but I can't imagine wanting to bother with it when my ancient, little Sansa is better than it could ever be.
What's even cooler is that newer Sansas do support Vorbis natively. I still prefer Rockbox, but I think Samsung really gets it.
No one is keeping you here.
And still... Rankine gets no love.
I guess it stings when people attack your religious beliefs, doesn't it?
I stopped using it in the late 90s when I discovered VNC was free _and_ worked about 10 times faster.
So you're saying it's all George W. Bush's fault?
So maybe Congress can create a health-care "reform" bill so complicated no one can understand it, but filled with enough time bombs and hidden boobytraps to eventually crash the private insurance industry. Wow, that's an incredibly cynical idea. I can't believe I could think of something so sinister.
He was promoted to a different office from which it would also be nice to see him removed.
The original post is fine the way it is.
I can't use it to store my comic books. Or Hot Pockets. It only works with files.
Well, the file system should be loosened so it can move about the whole partition. Otherwise you lose space.
Besides, the defragmentation engine in NT, which was licensed from the folks who make Diskeeper, is extremely robust. I'm as much of a critic of Microsoft as they come; my opinion of Microsoft borders on hatred. But I've got nothing bad to say about NTFS other than to comment the need for constant defragging is a pain. But as far as robustness, in almost 20 years, I can honestly say I've almost never seen hard drive corruption with NTFS that wasn't associated with a hardware failure... and even when I wasn't sure, I'd give it the benefit of the doubt based on my experience. I don't ever recall seeing a power outage toast an NTFS partition. I'm not saying it's not possible, but I've used the NT line since 3.51 on many, many computers and since NTFS came along, it's one of the few things I have not felt the need to complain about.
There are plenty of things to criticize Microsoft about, and I'm usually first in line to do so, but I really don't think NTFS is one place where they have failed.