the president, or his staff, can (and do) propose bills for the legislature to consider. cause, ya know, that's how Bush gets to run around the country saying "I'm gonna Privatize Social Security! And then I'm gonna prevent homos from gettin married!" and, that's how he gets to have his wars when he wants them: he says "Hey legislature, i want to do this. Make it happen!"
and, given the power of the position and his party's current headcount, he usually gets what he wants.
maybe he didn't propose this particular mess. but, there are plenty of other messes that can be traced back to the Executive and his minions (USA PATRIOT, Viet Dinh, Asst. US Attorney Gen).
i'm right at the top end of my 20G iPods capacity, with around 4100 songs. i could easily add another 10G worth of songs from CDs that i already own - if there was room to do it. since i've discovered the joys of Random Shuffle, even 4100 songs seems small - it seems like it's hitting the same album 3 or 4 times a day.
J2K is a mess to deal with. None of the current encoders seem to be compatible with each other, probably because the spec allows so many options and no decoder bothers implementing them all. Plus, the number of options make it wickedly difficult to decode an arbitrary image into a common representation (like 24-bit RGB). In that respect, it's like TIFF, but without a LibTiff to support it. Without LibTiff, TIFF would be unmanagable.
Instead of a well-known, well-supported, competent public domain library to support it, there's just a scattering of half-implemented, unsupported public-domain libraries and a few commercial implementations that don't like to read each others' files.
Of course, maybe the left has its own Free Republic or Little Green Footballs and I just don't know about it. They probably do, in fact.
yes, they do, and Atrios is one of them. his comment section attracts some of the most umm...aggressive posters from the left. there's a difference in tone, from LGF and the Freepers, but the level of invective is pretty much the same.
and i say this as someone who regularly posts there...:)
With VS, you get the source for all of the MFC, ATL and C run-time libraries. The code is at least as good as any of the GPL'd code i've run across - and at least they know where to put their leading brackets (on the next line, not immediately after the "if")!!
you'd probably be interested to learn about how the US was very friendly to Saddam in the 80's, even while people at the top of the US government illegally sold weapons to the country he was at war with: Iran. and, you might like to know how the US and the UN looked the other way when Iraq attacked Iran, sank Kuwaiti tankers, attacked the Iranians and Kurdish with all manner of weapons.
and, you'd probably like to have all this referenced and footnoted. so, here ya go!
If you think only liberals are against GWB's war, then you should read what non-liberals like Pat Buchanan and The Cato Institute have to say about the neo-con's war.
I want to be able to track down the fuckers who send me the kiddie porn HTML spam (complete with pictures of 13 year olds with all their stuff on display) and kick their teeth in.
What the hell did I do to opt into that list? (rhetorical question. the answer is nothing)
They take away your "fundemental right" to share information, too. I don't see/. bitching about that. You can bet that the library in question has new customers sign a document of some kind where they agree to not distribute the precious precious content of the books the download.
a story about people turning into salt, talking shrubs, wars, schizophrenics, faeries, ghosts and zombies performing 'miracles' shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a child with an impressionable mind.
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the president, or his staff, can (and do) propose bills for the legislature to consider. cause, ya know, that's how Bush gets to run around the country saying "I'm gonna Privatize Social Security! And then I'm gonna prevent homos from gettin married!" and, that's how he gets to have his wars when he wants them: he says "Hey legislature, i want to do this. Make it happen!"
and, given the power of the position and his party's current headcount, he usually gets what he wants.
maybe he didn't propose this particular mess. but, there are plenty of other messes that can be traced back to the Executive and his minions (USA PATRIOT, Viet Dinh, Asst. US Attorney Gen).
How to obfuscate Mandelbrot code.
for me, anyway. the site never comes up and instead, IE pops me into a google search for www.altavista.com . hooray for IE.
think "cole" and "channing" are bad? then you ain't see this.
ahh... now i see it.
did you lift this write-up from BoingBoing, or vice-versa ?
i'm right at the top end of my 20G iPods capacity, with around 4100 songs. i could easily add another 10G worth of songs from CDs that i already own - if there was room to do it. since i've discovered the joys of Random Shuffle, even 4100 songs seems small - it seems like it's hitting the same album 3 or 4 times a day.
can't wait till the 100G models come out.
J2K is a mess to deal with. None of the current encoders seem to be compatible with each other, probably because the spec allows so many options and no decoder bothers implementing them all. Plus, the number of options make it wickedly difficult to decode an arbitrary image into a common representation (like 24-bit RGB). In that respect, it's like TIFF, but without a LibTiff to support it. Without LibTiff, TIFF would be unmanagable.
Instead of a well-known, well-supported, competent public domain library to support it, there's just a scattering of half-implemented, unsupported public-domain libraries and a few commercial implementations that don't like to read each others' files.
J2K = far more trouble than it's worth.
Of course, maybe the left has its own Free Republic or Little Green Footballs and I just don't know about it. They probably do, in fact.
:)
yes, they do, and Atrios is one of them. his comment section attracts some of the most umm...aggressive posters from the left. there's a difference in tone, from LGF and the Freepers, but the level of invective is pretty much the same.
and i say this as someone who regularly posts there...
up until last year, JPEG was considered "open". nobody here even suspected JPEG would be in patent trouble.
maybe tomorrow someone will pop up with a patent that covers the compression that zLib uses (g'bye PNG).
who would you yell at then?
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the joke wasn't good enough to deserve the attention you've brought it, but i assure you, it was intentional.
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With VS, you get the source for all of the MFC, ATL and C run-time libraries. The code is at least as good as any of the GPL'd code i've run across - and at least they know where to put their leading brackets (on the next line, not immediately after the "if")!!
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and, you'd probably like to have all this referenced and footnoted. so, here ya go!
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/ShalomIranIraq.h tml
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is that you should beware of historical analogies.
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because it lets us protect our own documents. we're only interested in stealing other people's content, remember???
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I want to be able to track down the fuckers who send me the kiddie porn HTML spam (complete with pictures of 13 year olds with all their stuff on display) and kick their teeth in.
What the hell did I do to opt into that list? (rhetorical question. the answer is nothing)
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www.codeproject.com is leaps and bounds better than codeguru.
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automatic file versioning!
if you have foo.txt and you save another foo.txt in the same directory, you get foo.txt;2 !
damn, i wish Windows had that.
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They take away your "fundemental right" to share information, too. I don't see /. bitching about that. You can bet that the library in question has new customers sign a document of some kind where they agree to not distribute the precious precious content of the books the download.
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http://www.smalleranimals.com/thumb.htm !
I thought this was how open source companies were supposed to make their money? You get the software for free, but you have to pay for support.
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a story about people turning into salt, talking shrubs, wars, schizophrenics, faeries, ghosts and zombies performing 'miracles' shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a child with an impressionable mind.
just my $0.01
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... on Tuesday.
Apparently, though, the US is just fine with (even welcoming and asking for more of) the kind of government that would pass USAPATRIOT.
Be careful what you wish for, USACITIZEN.
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