Please point me to an in-depth, objective source discussing the abnormalities of the 2004 election. Here, "objective" should mean by a highly-regarded author who discusses possible other viewpoints and explanations for his/her findings and refrains from name-calling, unsubstantiated claims, or personal attacks.
I liked Froogle not so much because it found the cheapest of everything, but because it had a nicely integrated wish list feature. With a Froogle wish list, you don't have to worry about only being able to include things from, say, Amazon. You could put anything on there that could be found for sale online.
1) "Using the LAME encoding engine (or other mp3 encoding technology) in your software may require a patent license in some countries." (http://lame.sourceforge.net/about.html)
I wish they'd clearly state which platforms each game supports. It seems to me that the indie gaming scene would be a bit more friendly toward Linux and Mac, so I was hoping to get a couple good Linux game tips in there.
I agree with you about Palms being wonderful for organizing assignments and such. I have a trusty old Palm IIIxe I bought back in 2000, and it's still going strong today. Maybe I just don't know what I'm missing, but my old Palm seems to do everything I want it to, and well.
DualDiscs are kind of cool, but watch out. They don't follow the RedBook spec (the discs are thicker than they should be), so they can fail on some slot-loading players.
A lot of this is substantive depate in disguise. They may literally be arguing whether Bill 1 gets an hour of debate or a day of debate, but what they're really trying to do is either kill it or give it room to breathe.
As I understand it, they're searching through the Congressional Record, not simply transcripts of congressional speeches. The CR is full of pages upon pages of stuff that doesn't get spoken anywhere, except for saying "please insert this into the Record" (or something to that effect). The CR has full text of speeches, letters, reports, amendments, textual evidence, etc.
A more straightforward way of visualizing it may be to imagine a satellite around Earth in a highly elliptical orbit. At the nearest points to Earth, it's getting a little bit more resistance from the atmosphere, the magnetic field, etc. This extra resistance means it can't get as far out the next go-around, leading to a decrease in eccentricity, or a circularization of the orbit.
Of the top 20 movies at IMDB (voted by users), 4 of them were release this decade. That's a tie with the 1970s, and more than any other decade.
That said, the bottom 20 movies consists almost entirely of releases from this decade.
Of course, a better way to tell would be to average ratings for all movies released in each decade, but I don't think you can get raw SQL access to IMDB (can you?).
I'm the opposite (though still an engineer). I don't so much like DVDs, but with CDs and games, I love having a shelf of nice boxes to look at later on.
A lot of people over here feel that the following reasoning makes complete sense:
"Well, if they didn't want to be ass-raped, they shouldn't have committed a crime!"
I think there also tends to be a lot of feelings of vengeance or apathy against the faceless criminal population that make people accept such rumors as truth, then not do anything to combat it. This, in my opinion, is also the source of support for the death penalty over here, but that's another debate.
Oh give me a break. It's the recording industry, not the all the important issues in the world industry. Of course they're going to want this an issue at one of the biggest international summits on the planet - it's their job, it's what they were created and are paid to do.
Of course, you could argue that whole premise, but then you'd be getting into "why are you posting on Slashdot when you could be feeding a hungry child" territory.
"Steal" is not a legal term, while "theft" is. The two aren't aliases of each other. "To steal" is an everyday English term that happens to largely include the legal definition of "theft", but also anything else that it comes under it in the public usage. It's perfectly reasonable to refer to the unlawful breaking and entering of a computer system and the copying of secret source code as "stealing" it.
You know, I've always thought that if the law allows certain fair use rights, media companies should also be required to allow those rights. The same goes for allowing certain behavior in an EULA (making a backup) while making that behavior nearly impossible with copy protection.
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Ok, fine, I'll bite.
Please point me to an in-depth, objective source discussing the abnormalities of the 2004 election. Here, "objective" should mean by a highly-regarded author who discusses possible other viewpoints and explanations for his/her findings and refrains from name-calling, unsubstantiated claims, or personal attacks.
I liked Froogle not so much because it found the cheapest of everything, but because it had a nicely integrated wish list feature. With a Froogle wish list, you don't have to worry about only being able to include things from, say, Amazon. You could put anything on there that could be found for sale online.
Wow, don't try America's Army. That thing makes Counter-Strike look like DOOM.
But really, tactical FPSs are like golf - you hate it until you get that first great shot, then you're hooked.
It's 5 people each naming their top 5 games, for a total of 25 pages, plus some introductory material.
No, LAME is a bonafide MP3 encoder. From their webpage: "LAME is an LGPL MP3 encoder."
LAME is novel? What about:
1) "Using the LAME encoding engine (or other mp3 encoding technology) in your software may require a patent license in some countries." (http://lame.sourceforge.net/about.html)
2) the fact that Debian won't ship it?
Just FYI:
My university runs a lecture podcasting program: http://podcast.its.msstate.edu/
I wish they'd clearly state which platforms each game supports. It seems to me that the indie gaming scene would be a bit more friendly toward Linux and Mac, so I was hoping to get a couple good Linux game tips in there.
Yeah, retail outlets do have some catching up to do. Online though, the situation is better.
I just bought a couple MaxLite Premiums:
purchase
datasheet (pdf)
No warmup time, same size as incandescents, and same color temperature.
I don't have hard numbers, but the Environmental Defense site (bias warning) addresses it in passing:
d =269&campaign=mts
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/page.cfm?tagi
I agree with you about Palms being wonderful for organizing assignments and such. I have a trusty old Palm IIIxe I bought back in 2000, and it's still going strong today. Maybe I just don't know what I'm missing, but my old Palm seems to do everything I want it to, and well.
Besides, why sell mass-produced consumer items like videogames on ebay anyway? Isn't that what Half.com is for?
LimeWire is already open source.
Let's not forget that the Limewire software is also fully open source, so all they'd really do is shut down the sponsoring company.
DualDiscs are kind of cool, but watch out. They don't follow the RedBook spec (the discs are thicker than they should be), so they can fail on some slot-loading players.
A lot of this is substantive depate in disguise. They may literally be arguing whether Bill 1 gets an hour of debate or a day of debate, but what they're really trying to do is either kill it or give it room to breathe.
As I understand it, they're searching through the Congressional Record, not simply transcripts of congressional speeches. The CR is full of pages upon pages of stuff that doesn't get spoken anywhere, except for saying "please insert this into the Record" (or something to that effect). The CR has full text of speeches, letters, reports, amendments, textual evidence, etc.
Yeah, you're probably right. I was just explaining how circularization can happen, not how it did in this case.
A more straightforward way of visualizing it may be to imagine a satellite around Earth in a highly elliptical orbit. At the nearest points to Earth, it's getting a little bit more resistance from the atmosphere, the magnetic field, etc. This extra resistance means it can't get as far out the next go-around, leading to a decrease in eccentricity, or a circularization of the orbit.
Is this really true?
Of the top 20 movies at IMDB (voted by users), 4 of them were release this decade. That's a tie with the 1970s, and more than any other decade.
That said, the bottom 20 movies consists almost entirely of releases from this decade.
Of course, a better way to tell would be to average ratings for all movies released in each decade, but I don't think you can get raw SQL access to IMDB (can you?).
I'm the opposite (though still an engineer). I don't so much like DVDs, but with CDs and games, I love having a shelf of nice boxes to look at later on.
A lot of people over here feel that the following reasoning makes complete sense:
"Well, if they didn't want to be ass-raped, they shouldn't have committed a crime!"
I think there also tends to be a lot of feelings of vengeance or apathy against the faceless criminal population that make people accept such rumors as truth, then not do anything to combat it. This, in my opinion, is also the source of support for the death penalty over here, but that's another debate.
Oh give me a break. It's the recording industry, not the all the important issues in the world industry. Of course they're going to want this an issue at one of the biggest international summits on the planet - it's their job, it's what they were created and are paid to do.
Of course, you could argue that whole premise, but then you'd be getting into "why are you posting on Slashdot when you could be feeding a hungry child" territory.
"Steal" is not a legal term, while "theft" is. The two aren't aliases of each other. "To steal" is an everyday English term that happens to largely include the legal definition of "theft", but also anything else that it comes under it in the public usage. It's perfectly reasonable to refer to the unlawful breaking and entering of a computer system and the copying of secret source code as "stealing" it.
You know, I've always thought that if the law allows certain fair use rights, media companies should also be required to allow those rights. The same goes for allowing certain behavior in an EULA (making a backup) while making that behavior nearly impossible with copy protection.