This is total BS! You'd need a fleet of machines slowing down the connection to cache and hash these files. Finger printing isn't a realiable method and can be over come with High and Low (Out of the audio band) distortion.
Hashing and checksuming the file and matching 80% of it might actually be effecting....
Probably runs on BSD because BSD is so damn promiscuous.
There is lots and lots and lots of money going to education at the federal level. Not to mention money coming from the states and money coming from the county and the money from the city. (Yes, my english sucks)
Does anyone have any Idea how much money we spend a year on education? You'll never guess. Nasa is going to get a supplement to its already 17 Billion dollar budget, yes? Back 1989-1990 the income the federal government generated was about 915 billion dollars.
In 2001 to 2002 and the estimated education expenditures were 745 BILLION not million but BILLION dollars. That is twice that of defense spending. Education is important, I think all can agree. In terms of the bang for the buck people like to think is happening, it's simply not true. Money doesn't make all problems go away. Better processes make the problems go away.
Heck with the things we'll most likely discover on the way toward the goal of putting someone on mars, we might find better energy sources, cures for things, create a renewed interest in science and education, faster ways to communicate, sexual positions of orgasmic delight in a near 0G environment....who knows, it's the journey that has proven itself to be more useful than the destination, when it comes to space.
I know the grammar sucks, but at least the spelling is good.
There is a principle of precaution here. Basically, if you do things to the earth that will take 300 year to undo, you'd better be DAMM sure that they aren't harmful.
Precaution is good. How much precaution is needed? You should study and hypothisise about the effect of man on the earth, not pull number out of thin air. I can think of a number of horrible natural things that cause great disruptions in regions (Think volcanos or lakes of sulfuric acid)
Doing things green isn't BAD for the economy. It's GOOD for the economy. Doing things in a green, sustainable way involves more jobs and better distribution of wealth.
Why more jobs? I don't really get this argument.
Doing green things is GOOD for people and DEPENDENT on the economy. As long as oil is cheaper than anything else (which it is) and as long as oil is abundant (which it is) then you are going to have a tough time convincing people and governemnts to switch to more expensive fuel sources.
I am going to emit millions of tons of waste into the environment. Until a scientist proves beyond the shadow of any conceivable doubt that any one of those substances in isolation is harmful, I will continue doing it. If there is a problem, then government will clean it up. I have no responsibility for my messes.
How else do you propose progress. Yes this thinking DID happen and yes, this thinking continues in limited form in developed countries, but it is something regulation has and can fix.
If you emit thousands of tons of waste to the environment it should be benign and non-reactent in nature. If it is reactent, then YOU the polluter need to determine if it's harmful or not. If it is harmful, then YOU are responsible for nuetralizing your waste as part of a production cost, not GOVERNMENT.
After reading this, it makes sence, however, this can only happened in developed nations, where there is technology, infrastructer and science at the disposal of all parties involved. I like the idea, but needs some tweaking.
The perfect example is mercury. We are emitting thousands of tons of it into the atmosphere every year. The Bush administration has nixed new standards that would have forced power producers to scrub there smokestacks. They've also re-opened lands to mercury miners.
Yes, Mercury is bad. How bad is it? How will this effect the people living in a 10, 100, 1000 mile radius of the man mad source. I think it would be cheaper in the long run, at least for power, if rather than add on to power plants with wonderful new scrubbing technology, make insentive to build new once with greater efficiency, less maintanence cost and therefor less need for this annoying and expensive to impliment technology.
Mercury poisoning is popping up everywhere in latent levels. It's now suspected as a factor in severe autism, alzheimers and high incidences of ADD.
Perhaps, but doubtful with current studies. Autism is just one of those things. Alzheimers is also an interesting thing that appears to be someone part of predispotion and people living longer and I haven't seen a single credible study that links mercury with ADD.
The environmentalist (and myself) would say
WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT DOSAGE????????
This stuff is toxic, it breaks the blood brain barrier down. It turns into an organic version within the human body that is difficult to eliminate. Why are you hung up about dosage???? It's fucking bad shit.
Yes, It is bad shit indeed. But it is all about dosage, without trace amount of things like mercury in your system, you wouldn't be able to function. There are no toxic chemicals, only toxic levels, and lest we forget, mercury occurs naturally as well, in some water and food supplies, all without mans help.
Won't it be so incredibly ironic if mercury is a major factor in Alzheimers. The great hero of conservaties (Ronald Reagan) will have been stricken down with his own ignoranc
Apple had already released a PDA. It was released in 1996 and it had specs that made feel bad when I bought my Palm m505. It even recognized my handwriting, which was 3x quicker than the Graphiti, which I use now.
Just 5 years too early I guess..
Specs:
ARM 610 RISC processor at 20 MHz
Apple custom system ASIC
Low-power, transflective LCD display with EL backlight (320 by 240 pixels) 3.8 in. by 2.8 in. (9.6 cm by 7.2 cm)
Nonglare writing surface
Telescoping pen
8MB of ROM; 2.5MB RAM (1,199K of system RAM; 1,361K of nonvolatile user RAM)
One PC Card Type II slot with 325 mA capacity
LocalTalk and RS-232-compatible serial port
Low-power, half-duplex, infrared transceiver that works at up to 38.4 Kbits/sec within 3.28 ft. (1 m)
Protective, removable lid
Communications capabilities
Prints using a variety of serial, parallel, and network printers
Receives and stores wireless messages using optional messaging cards
Communicates via e-mail or taps into on-line services and the Internet with optional wired or wireless modem cards and software
Provides faxing with optional fax modem (automatic cover-page generation, post-formatting)
Beams notes, name cards, appointments, and packages at up to 38.4 Kbits/sec within 3.28 ft. (1 m) using high-speed infrared technology
Automatically dials phone calls with assistance from intelligent auto-dialing (DTMF or modem dialing)
Connects to cellular or GSM phones for wireless data and fax communications
These threads invariably involve, at the top mod levels, derogatory comments about the quality of Microsoft code and products, conspiracy theories about the true motives behind Microsofts intentions (always), sarcastic jokes agreeing with the action in question, a sad reflection on how new users, PHBs and/or the world at large is accepting this action, and an impressively-inventive-if-completely unneccesary variety of miscellaneous other anti-Microsoft rhetoric.
The paper ballot system isn't broken. What failed wad the punchcard system, and more specific efforts to explain proper operation of it.
Yes, well put!
Most of the counties here in Wisconsin are optical (Fill in the arrow pointing to the person you want to vote for) If you vote more than once, the ballot is rejected and given back to the voter for correction. It is simple, and lowers the chances of human error. The machine itself is Simple lowering its error rate and once the ballots are accepted by the machine no one onsite has access to tamper with the Originals.
To reiterate, there is nothing wrong with paper ballots, we just think machine are infallible...except when it comes to things like flying planes, driving cars, storing our personal information...
Because unemployment insurance records, which many people think are the source of total unemployment data, relate only to persons who have applied for such benefits, and since it is impractical to actually count every unemployed person each month, the Government conducts a monthly sample survey called the Current Population Survey (CPS) to measure the extent of unemployment in the country. The CPS has been conducted in the United States every month since 1940 when it began as a Work Projects Administration project. It has been expanded and modified several times since then. As explained later, the CPS estimates, beginning in 1994, reflect the results of a major redesign of the survey.
What are the basic concepts of employment and unemployment?
The basic concepts involved in identifying the employed and unemployed are quite simple:
* People with jobs are employed.
* People who are jobless, looking for jobs, and available for work are unemployed.
* People who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force.
Who is counted as employed?
Not all of the wide range of job situations in the American economy fit neatly into a given category. For example, people are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey week. This includes all part-time and temporary work, as well as regular full-time year-round employment. Persons also are counted as employed if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week because they were:
* On vacation;
* Ill;
* Experiencing child-care problems;
* Taking care of some other family or personal obligation;
* On maternity or paternity leave;
* Involved in an industrial dispute; or
* Prevented from working by bad weather.
Who is counted as unemployed?
Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work.
Who is not in the labor force?
All members of the civilian noninstitutional population are eligible for inclusion in the labor force, and those 16 and over who have a job or are actively looking for one are so classified. All others--those who have no job and are not looking for one--are counted as "not in the labor force." Many who do not participate in the labor force are going to school or are retired. Family responsibilities keep others out of the labor force. Still others have a physical or mental disability which prevents them from participating in labor force activities.
Using this as an oportunity, someone could start pitching a national sales tax. As much as the states will try, there won't be a law making it legal to tax items purchased in another state. I know that here in Wisconsin we are technically supposed to pay sales tax on out of state purchases via our personal income tax. Anyway, back to my point.
While cash strapped states might not like the idea, the federal government could impose a federal sales tax on ALL items. I would find this ideal over our current tax structure and now would be the perfect time to pitch this federally.
The only fears I have is congress (Money grubbing freaks on both sides of the spectrum) will want to use it as an income suppliment rather than a replacement for our current tax structure.
I'm going to stop short of preaching and trying to sell the idea of National tax and say that States will try, and may even pass laws but in no way be able to enforce such laws.
Isn't this going a little too far. I thought a suggestion box was always welcome, or even a public message board where people could leave suggestions was A Good Thing(TM).
Apple doesn't make the G5 and as you mentioned it is a PPC 970 which is made by IBM. IBM is happy to include it in other machines with the Non-G5 name. I'm not sure if you can purchase just the processor from IBM, but they are very happy to included it in there new machines and possibly build for custom applications like a Linux Cluster.
DRM inconveniences ONLY the people who are paying.
I agree with this whole heartedly but there is something that has been bothering me for a while. When I play the music from any media, Studio DAT, Vinyl, 8 Track, CD, MP3 am I not reproducing it to sound? What is the legal argument for this? If they are licensing the sound, then why can I not own the media in any format I choose. They can, because I don't see them distributing studio masters very often.
hahaha.. as if Apple isn't charging $129 every six months for the latest and greatest OS X.
OS X isn't released that quickly, it is on the market for at least 18 months before there is wind of the next update. The Difference between 10.1 and 10.2 was more than just a little bug fix, new features processes were added and better ways to do things were made. 10.3 is the same.
You can knock MS for a lot of things, but they're still ahead of the curve for OS updates as far as Redhat and Apple are concerned.
Yes, there update engine is very complex and overall good at finding the fixes you need. Redhat's is very useful and efficient FOR A FREE OS!!! up2date is annoying is you don't subsribe after your demo period is up. As for Apple... OS X software update, it goes and updates your applications, most never requiring a reboot.
Just bashing is not a good thing, perhaps you should upgrade your Debian kernel from 2.2 or actually read about the OSs you so proudly bash.
Slashdot Mirror
This is total BS! You'd need a fleet of machines slowing down the connection to cache and hash these files. Finger printing isn't a realiable method and can be over come with High and Low (Out of the audio band) distortion.
Hashing and checksuming the file and matching 80% of it might actually be effecting....
Probably runs on BSD because BSD is so damn promiscuous.
Coward
I thought it was a crappy remake of Wrath of Kahn!
You forgot that its other purpose is to break things.
This is so very true.
There is lots and lots and lots of money going to education at the federal level. Not to mention money coming from the states and money coming from the county and the money from the city. (Yes, my english sucks)
Does anyone have any Idea how much money we spend a year on education? You'll never guess. Nasa is going to get a supplement to its already 17 Billion dollar budget, yes? Back 1989-1990 the income the federal government generated was about 915 billion dollars.
In 2001 to 2002 and the estimated education expenditures were 745 BILLION not million but BILLION dollars. That is twice that of defense spending. Education is important, I think all can agree. In terms of the bang for the buck people like to think is happening, it's simply not true. Money doesn't make all problems go away. Better processes make the problems go away.
Heck with the things we'll most likely discover on the way toward the goal of putting someone on mars, we might find better energy sources, cures for things, create a renewed interest in science and education, faster ways to communicate, sexual positions of orgasmic delight in a near 0G environment....who knows, it's the journey that has proven itself to be more useful than the destination, when it comes to space.
I know the grammar sucks, but at least the spelling is good.
There is a principle of precaution here. Basically, if you do things to the earth that will take 300 year to undo, you'd better be DAMM sure that they aren't harmful.
Precaution is good. How much precaution is needed? You should study and hypothisise about the effect of man on the earth, not pull number out of thin air. I can think of a number of horrible natural things that cause great disruptions in regions (Think volcanos or lakes of sulfuric acid)
Doing things green isn't BAD for the economy. It's GOOD for the economy. Doing things in a green, sustainable way involves more jobs and better distribution of wealth.
Why more jobs? I don't really get this argument.
Doing green things is GOOD for people and DEPENDENT on the economy. As long as oil is cheaper than anything else (which it is) and as long as oil is abundant (which it is) then you are going to have a tough time convincing people and governemnts to switch to more expensive fuel sources.
I am going to emit millions of tons of waste into the environment. Until a scientist proves beyond the shadow of any conceivable doubt that any one of those substances in isolation is harmful, I will continue doing it. If there is a problem, then government will clean it up. I have no responsibility for my messes.
How else do you propose progress. Yes this thinking DID happen and yes, this thinking continues in limited form in developed countries, but it is something regulation has and can fix.
If you emit thousands of tons of waste to the environment it should be benign and non-reactent in nature. If it is reactent, then YOU the polluter need to determine if it's harmful or not. If it is harmful, then YOU are responsible for nuetralizing your waste as part of a production cost, not GOVERNMENT.
After reading this, it makes sence, however, this can only happened in developed nations, where there is technology, infrastructer and science at the disposal of all parties involved. I like the idea, but needs some tweaking.
The perfect example is mercury. We are emitting thousands of tons of it into the atmosphere every year. The Bush administration has nixed new standards that would have forced power producers to scrub there smokestacks. They've also re-opened lands to mercury miners.
Yes, Mercury is bad. How bad is it? How will this effect the people living in a 10, 100, 1000 mile radius of the man mad source. I think it would be cheaper in the long run, at least for power, if rather than add on to power plants with wonderful new scrubbing technology, make insentive to build new once with greater efficiency, less maintanence cost and therefor less need for this annoying and expensive to impliment technology.
Mercury poisoning is popping up everywhere in latent levels. It's now suspected as a factor in severe autism, alzheimers and high incidences of ADD.
Perhaps, but doubtful with current studies. Autism is just one of those things. Alzheimers is also an interesting thing that appears to be someone part of predispotion and people living longer and I haven't seen a single credible study that links mercury with ADD.
The environmentalist (and myself) would say
WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT DOSAGE????????
This stuff is toxic, it breaks the blood brain barrier down. It turns into an organic version within the human body that is difficult to eliminate. Why are you hung up about dosage???? It's fucking bad shit.
Yes, It is bad shit indeed. But it is all about dosage, without trace amount of things like mercury in your system, you wouldn't be able to function. There are no toxic chemicals, only toxic levels, and lest we forget, mercury occurs naturally as well, in some water and food supplies, all without mans help.
Won't it be so incredibly ironic if mercury is a major factor in Alzheimers. The great hero of conservaties (Ronald Reagan) will have been stricken down with his own ignoranc
Apple had already released a PDA. It was released in 1996 and it had specs that made feel bad when I bought my Palm m505. It even recognized my handwriting, which was 3x quicker than the Graphiti, which I use now.
Just 5 years too early I guess..
Specs:
ARM 610 RISC processor at 20 MHz
Apple custom system ASIC
Low-power, transflective LCD display with EL backlight (320 by 240 pixels) 3.8 in. by 2.8 in. (9.6 cm by 7.2 cm)
Nonglare writing surface
Telescoping pen
8MB of ROM; 2.5MB RAM (1,199K of system RAM; 1,361K of nonvolatile user RAM)
One PC Card Type II slot with 325 mA capacity
LocalTalk and RS-232-compatible serial port
Low-power, half-duplex, infrared transceiver that works at up to 38.4 Kbits/sec within 3.28 ft. (1 m)
Protective, removable lid
Communications capabilities
Prints using a variety of serial, parallel, and network printers
Receives and stores wireless messages using optional messaging cards
Communicates via e-mail or taps into on-line services and the Internet with optional wired or wireless modem cards and software
Provides faxing with optional fax modem (automatic cover-page generation, post-formatting)
Beams notes, name cards, appointments, and packages at up to 38.4 Kbits/sec within 3.28 ft. (1 m) using high-speed infrared technology
Automatically dials phone calls with assistance from intelligent auto-dialing (DTMF or modem dialing)
Connects to cellular or GSM phones for wireless data and fax communications
Careful not to step in the leadership.
We make fun of grammar too!
These threads invariably involve, at the top mod levels, derogatory comments about the quality of Microsoft code and products, conspiracy theories about the true motives behind Microsofts intentions (always), sarcastic jokes agreeing with the action in question, a sad reflection on how new users, PHBs and/or the world at large is accepting this action, and an impressively-inventive-if-completely unneccesary variety of miscellaneous other anti-Microsoft rhetoric.
I think you have yourself a run-on sentence.
here is a link to the auction
The paper ballot system isn't broken. What failed wad the punchcard system, and more specific efforts to explain proper operation of it.
Yes, well put!
Most of the counties here in Wisconsin are optical (Fill in the arrow pointing to the person you want to vote for) If you vote more than once, the ballot is rejected and given back to the voter for correction. It is simple, and lowers the chances of human error. The machine itself is Simple lowering its error rate and once the ballots are accepted by the machine no one onsite has access to tamper with the Originals.
To reiterate, there is nothing wrong with paper ballots, we just think machine are infallible...except when it comes to things like flying planes, driving cars, storing our personal information...
What do you mean by that? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics can put your misinformed viewpoint to rest.
Where do the statistics come from?
Because unemployment insurance records, which many people think are the source of total unemployment data, relate only to persons who have applied for such benefits, and since it is impractical to actually count every unemployed person each month, the Government conducts a monthly sample survey called the Current Population Survey (CPS) to measure the extent of unemployment in the country. The CPS has been conducted in the United States every month since 1940 when it began as a Work Projects Administration project. It has been expanded and modified several times since then. As explained later, the CPS estimates, beginning in 1994, reflect the results of a major redesign of the survey.
What are the basic concepts of employment and unemployment?
The basic concepts involved in identifying the employed and unemployed are quite simple:
* People with jobs are employed.
* People who are jobless, looking for jobs, and available for work are unemployed.
* People who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force.
Who is counted as employed?
Not all of the wide range of job situations in the American economy fit neatly into a given category. For example, people are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey week. This includes all part-time and temporary work, as well as regular full-time year-round employment. Persons also are counted as employed if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week because they were:
* On vacation;
* Ill;
* Experiencing child-care problems;
* Taking care of some other family or personal obligation;
* On maternity or paternity leave;
* Involved in an industrial dispute; or
* Prevented from working by bad weather.
Who is counted as unemployed?
Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work.
Who is not in the labor force?
All members of the civilian noninstitutional population are eligible for inclusion in the labor force, and those 16 and over who have a job or are actively looking for one are so classified. All others--those who have no job and are not looking for one--are counted as "not in the labor force." Many who do not participate in the labor force are going to school or are retired. Family responsibilities keep others out of the labor force. Still others have a physical or mental disability which prevents them from participating in labor force activities.
Sorry about your ego.
Using this as an oportunity, someone could start pitching a national sales tax. As much as the states will try, there won't be a law making it legal to tax items purchased in another state. I know that here in Wisconsin we are technically supposed to pay sales tax on out of state purchases via our personal income tax. Anyway, back to my point.
While cash strapped states might not like the idea, the federal government could impose a federal sales tax on ALL items. I would find this ideal over our current tax structure and now would be the perfect time to pitch this federally.
The only fears I have is congress (Money grubbing freaks on both sides of the spectrum) will want to use it as an income suppliment rather than a replacement for our current tax structure.
I'm going to stop short of preaching and trying to sell the idea of National tax and say that States will try, and may even pass laws but in no way be able to enforce such laws.
Proofreading and spelling checking is for losers
The Matrix just isn't right for this. Tron is.
"Hey, hey, hey! It's the big Master Control Program
everybody's been talking about."
"C'mon big fella, let's see what 'ya got!"
"I want him in the games until he dies playing."
"I'm going to have to put you on the gamegrid."
End of Line
I believe what you're trying to say is Microsoft following open standards is a good thing.
However, Microsoft "Embracing and Extending" open standards is their track record.
Peace, Love, Penguins.
> First, the user base for Linux is inherently more systems-savvy
I believe the words your looking for are Anal retentive
Didn't you hear? She is going to jail too. :)
Apple doesn't make the G5 and as you mentioned it is a PPC 970 which is made by IBM. IBM is happy to include it in other machines with the Non-G5 name. I'm not sure if you can purchase just the processor from IBM, but they are very happy to included it in there new machines and possibly build for custom applications like a Linux Cluster.
The day that my XT replaced
my D&D dice holding case
social skills I neglected
elvish lore I dissected
and a celibate life I embraced.
-- www.bbspot.com
I agree with this whole heartedly but there is something that has been bothering me for a while. When I play the music from any media, Studio DAT, Vinyl, 8 Track, CD, MP3 am I not reproducing it to sound? What is the legal argument for this? If they are licensing the sound, then why can I not own the media in any format I choose. They can, because I don't see them distributing studio masters very often.
Just a poorly written thought
(Bias note: I've written commercial/consumer software for a *long* time)
Blame The key to success is knowing who to blame for your faults and failures.
hahaha.. as if Apple isn't charging $129 every six months for the latest and greatest OS X.
OS X isn't released that quickly, it is on the market for at least 18 months before there is wind of the next update. The Difference between 10.1 and 10.2 was more than just a little bug fix, new features processes were added and better ways to do things were made. 10.3 is the same.
You can knock MS for a lot of things, but they're still ahead of the curve for OS updates as far as Redhat and Apple are concerned.
Yes, there update engine is very complex and overall good at finding the fixes you need. Redhat's is very useful and efficient FOR A FREE OS!!! up2date is annoying is you don't subsribe after your demo period is up. As for Apple... OS X software update, it goes and updates your applications, most never requiring a reboot.
Just bashing is not a good thing, perhaps you should upgrade your Debian kernel from 2.2 or actually read about the OSs you so proudly bash.
Proof Reading and spell check is for losers!
I've always filled in my address as root@127.0.0.1
Damn people using Microsoft
I dislike Linux and Windows Desktop machines equally, when compared to my OS X