That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3 days to respawn!
Well, he respawned 'on the third day', counting the Friday he died as day 1 and the Sunday he respawned as day 3, but it was less than 48 hours elapsed time. Still some pretty bad lag. Of course, back then I guess they had to use IP over camel transport....
Suppose I have a Linux ISO shared on a P2P system. The copyright is owned by another party; of course, that party encourages the sharing of the file. Can I be prosecuted under this law, even if the copyright holder permits free sharing of the work?
What if it's a live recording of a Grateful Dead show? The songs are still under the band's copyright, even though they allow trading of the recordings. Can I get busted for that?
IANAL, but I'd guess the answer is 'no'. Your right to a backup only enables you to make a backup of your own CD to use in case it breaks (hence the term 'backup'). It doesn't make sense that it would entitle you to copy someone else's CD after failing to use your right to backup your own.
My qusetion is, once the RIAA/MPAA get their wish and everyone who's ever thought about pirating a CD is in prison, will they quit trying to force crap like SSSCA, HDCP, and the like, and just let us exercise our own fair-use rights to content we've purchased?
Oh, and once 40% of the American public is in prison, who the hell is going to be buying CDs and DVDs and going to movies? I guess the *AA are planning to make up for those lost profits by providing in-cell entertainment at the taxpayers' expense.
Evolutionists' arguments are invalid. They claim that they can't prove something because it hasn't happened in an observable fashion yet. However, they offer evidence that it is currently happening.
Of course, I could turn this around and say Creationists' arguments are invalid. They claim that they can't 'prove' creationism to me because I'm lacking faith, but they offer 'evidence' in the form of some myths developed by early hunter-gatherer societies 4,000 years ago. That's like saying the the tooth fairy doesn't visit professional hockey players because they don't believe in her anymore, yet you offer evidence that she exists by showing me a quarter you claim you got from her when you were 6. Ridiculous.
Just because narrow-minded fundamentalist religious fanatics refuse to admit that the theory of evolution is the best scientific explanation for the current diversity of life on earth and the fossil record, that does not make "evolutionists'" arguments invalid. I'll bet you any sum of money you care to name that if we observed a speciation event tomorrow, the majority of creationists would say something like "God caused it to happen this one time to test the faithful. I still don't believe that evolution nonsense. I'm made out of dust and God's phlegm and proud of it!"
Typically, back in the days of vinyl, music was engineered with the intention of making a vinyl record. The sound engineers knew exactly what the LP would do to the sounds and took that into account in the production process. Thus, a great deal of music from that time sounds great on the original vinyl, but sounds like absolute crap on CD (unless it's been remastered).
If we still lived completely naturally, with no sweets, I imagine that even without brushing, our teeth would remain in good shape for our complete ~30 year lifespan. I'd rather have candy, need a toothbrush, and not have to worry about being eaten by lions, myself.
I think the original poster was looking for mutations so drastic that they would be regarded as new species. Which, of course, you'll never be able to show him because speciation takes a long, long time, and there is no clean point at which species A becomes species B.
Incidentally, dyslexia isn't necessarily genetic, it can be acquired through damage to the cerebellum (in utero or even in adulthood). Conjoined twins aren't a genetic mutation either, they occur when a fertilized ovum splits almost but not quite completely into two individuals.
Only on/. could an article about the RIAA and file-sharing turn into a creation/evolution debate.
Obviously you can't run OOo on Palm, but it would be possible to create something like Documents To Go, which syncs files back and forth and provides somewhat limited editing functionality on the Palm side.
In any of those situations, you'd be just as well served by getting OOo and using it to open the file and export to your office-program-of-choice's native format. I'm sure the OOo programmers would rather spend their time on OOo, instead of writing OOo import filters for MS, Lotus, and Corel.
I'm getting 178kbytes/sec from the ibiblio OOo mirror. I've never seen any.torrent deliver that speed in the real world. So why do you need a.torrent, again?
No, if it were (grammar nitpick: don't use was, this sentence is subjunctive mood) particle physics he'd have no problem. There's no guarantee that he knows anything about rocket science.
It doesn't make sense for users that open their word processing program at the beginning of the day, and don't close it until the end of the day. For them, file opening, file saving, and editing speed are all that really matter.
I don't know any of the people to whom you refer. I, myself, think fundamentalism of any sort is a Bad Thing. What was it Ferris Beuller said? "You shouldn't believe in an -ism, you should believe in yourself" or something similar.
Oh, and in case you didn't know it, some fundamentalist Christians do blow shit up - they tend to target abortion clinics rather than large office buildings, though.
while the immediate bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes may be enormous, the overall bandwidth is quite poor. this is because of the slow write/read rates of the tape drive,
So, use DVD-R media. It's a lot faster, especially on the read end, and the random access should be worth something. I imagine it can be more densely packed into the station wagon, too.
and the slow overall speed of the station wagon.
So, bolt a JATO onto the back of the station wagon!
Wow, it must suck to live on a planet named after a possessed fortune-telling machine from a Tom Hanks movie. Or was that Zoltan? I never can remember....
Poles in basements suck. Especially when it's an old basement and all the electrical circuits are two-prong. I can't count the number of times I've been playing an electric guitar through an amp that's not grounded, touched a basement pole, and gotten zapped. Same thing can happen to the singer if his lips touch the microphone. Singing guitar players can even get zapped without touching anything but the guitar and the mic, if the PA amp and the guitar amp have a different idea of what 'ground' means.
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That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3 days to respawn!
Well, he respawned 'on the third day', counting the Friday he died as day 1 and the Sunday he respawned as day 3, but it was less than 48 hours elapsed time. Still some pretty bad lag. Of course, back then I guess they had to use IP over camel transport....
Government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.
No, it's not government OF the corporations, unless someone actually sets rules that corporations have to follow.
I don't have speakers here at work, but I'm emailing the URL to myself to check out later. 'Celtic Punk' just seems too cool to not give a listen.
Suppose I have a Linux ISO shared on a P2P system. The copyright is owned by another party; of course, that party encourages the sharing of the file. Can I be prosecuted under this law, even if the copyright holder permits free sharing of the work?
What if it's a live recording of a Grateful Dead show? The songs are still under the band's copyright, even though they allow trading of the recordings. Can I get busted for that?
IANAL, but I'd guess the answer is 'no'. Your right to a backup only enables you to make a backup of your own CD to use in case it breaks (hence the term 'backup'). It doesn't make sense that it would entitle you to copy someone else's CD after failing to use your right to backup your own.
My qusetion is, once the RIAA/MPAA get their wish and everyone who's ever thought about pirating a CD is in prison, will they quit trying to force crap like SSSCA, HDCP, and the like, and just let us exercise our own fair-use rights to content we've purchased?
Oh, and once 40% of the American public is in prison, who the hell is going to be buying CDs and DVDs and going to movies? I guess the *AA are planning to make up for those lost profits by providing in-cell entertainment at the taxpayers' expense.
Evolutionists' arguments are invalid. They claim that they can't prove something because it hasn't happened in an observable fashion yet. However, they offer evidence that it is currently happening.
Of course, I could turn this around and say Creationists' arguments are invalid. They claim that they can't 'prove' creationism to me because I'm lacking faith, but they offer 'evidence' in the form of some myths developed by early hunter-gatherer societies 4,000 years ago. That's like saying the the tooth fairy doesn't visit professional hockey players because they don't believe in her anymore, yet you offer evidence that she exists by showing me a quarter you claim you got from her when you were 6. Ridiculous.
Just because narrow-minded fundamentalist religious fanatics refuse to admit that the theory of evolution is the best scientific explanation for the current diversity of life on earth and the fossil record, that does not make "evolutionists'" arguments invalid. I'll bet you any sum of money you care to name that if we observed a speciation event tomorrow, the majority of creationists would say something like "God caused it to happen this one time to test the faithful. I still don't believe that evolution nonsense. I'm made out of dust and God's phlegm and proud of it!"
OK, in that case disk space is about $0.09 per MB
$0.09/MB? You're getting ripped. I can sell you 30GB drives for $0.04/MB ($1200 each)! I'll even do it buy 2, get 1 free if you act now!
Typically, back in the days of vinyl, music was engineered with the intention of making a vinyl record. The sound engineers knew exactly what the LP would do to the sounds and took that into account in the production process. Thus, a great deal of music from that time sounds great on the original vinyl, but sounds like absolute crap on CD (unless it's been remastered).
Now let's get with the $5 DVD's and the $29 Photoshop people! Chop Chop!
I got Batman (the 1960's version) for $5 at Wal-Mart. Does that count?
If we still lived completely naturally, with no sweets, I imagine that even without brushing, our teeth would remain in good shape for our complete ~30 year lifespan. I'd rather have candy, need a toothbrush, and not have to worry about being eaten by lions, myself.
I think the original poster was looking for mutations so drastic that they would be regarded as new species. Which, of course, you'll never be able to show him because speciation takes a long, long time, and there is no clean point at which species A becomes species B.
/. could an article about the RIAA and file-sharing turn into a creation/evolution debate.
Incidentally, dyslexia isn't necessarily genetic, it can be acquired through damage to the cerebellum (in utero or even in adulthood). Conjoined twins aren't a genetic mutation either, they occur when a fertilized ovum splits almost but not quite completely into two individuals.
Only on
You realize, of course, that the Samba docs and example configuration files already show you basically how to do this?
Obviously you can't run OOo on Palm, but it would be possible to create something like Documents To Go, which syncs files back and forth and provides somewhat limited editing functionality on the Palm side.
I would assume exporting from Writer to Palm would produce a PalmDoc formatted file, but what does Calc export to Palm give you?
In any of those situations, you'd be just as well served by getting OOo and using it to open the file and export to your office-program-of-choice's native format. I'm sure the OOo programmers would rather spend their time on OOo, instead of writing OOo import filters for MS, Lotus, and Corel.
I'm getting 178kbytes/sec from the ibiblio OOo mirror. I've never seen any .torrent deliver that speed in the real world. So why do you need a .torrent, again?
No, if it were (grammar nitpick: don't use was, this sentence is subjunctive mood) particle physics he'd have no problem. There's no guarantee that he knows anything about rocket science.
It doesn't make sense for users that open their word processing program at the beginning of the day, and don't close it until the end of the day. For them, file opening, file saving, and editing speed are all that really matter.
I don't know any of the people to whom you refer. I, myself, think fundamentalism of any sort is a Bad Thing. What was it Ferris Beuller said? "You shouldn't believe in an -ism, you should believe in yourself" or something similar.
Oh, and in case you didn't know it, some fundamentalist Christians do blow shit up - they tend to target abortion clinics rather than large office buildings, though.
Firebird crashes when there are maybe 40 instances
IE typically causes problems with that many instances too. The simplest solution to the problem is to find porn sites that don't have so many popups.
One thinks they're God's chosen people, the other is in the Middle East?
while the immediate bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes may be enormous, the overall bandwidth is quite poor. this is because of the slow write/read rates of the tape drive,
So, use DVD-R media. It's a lot faster, especially on the read end, and the random access should be worth something. I imagine it can be more densely packed into the station wagon, too.
and the slow overall speed of the station wagon.
So, bolt a JATO onto the back of the station wagon!
Wow, it must suck to live on a planet named after a possessed fortune-telling machine from a Tom Hanks movie. Or was that Zoltan? I never can remember....
FYI - You might want to be a little more careful with your foam insulation than NASA was.
Poles in basements suck. Especially when it's an old basement and all the electrical circuits are two-prong. I can't count the number of times I've been playing an electric guitar through an amp that's not grounded, touched a basement pole, and gotten zapped. Same thing can happen to the singer if his lips touch the microphone. Singing guitar players can even get zapped without touching anything but the guitar and the mic, if the PA amp and the guitar amp have a different idea of what 'ground' means.