its not that hard - you simply change where the docs and settings are saved temporarily (like, in "bob" or something), mount, copy from the temp spot, repoint, and boom - done. I mean, I bash windows with the best of them, but they've finally (sortof) got this thing that has been around in unix for a few hundred years.
"Many car experts think that autonomous vehicles which avoid collisions and communicate wirelessly with other cars will be the norm in two to three decades."
The problem? That necessitates complete changeover. Once you have a single car on the road being driven by a human, there's a chaos factor that isn't being communicated to the other cars.
Sure, you can make cars without the tech illegal, but...that would be a bit to ask of the poor.
that's the title of the topic. Try reading the topic - I'm quoting the second half of it. That is where the music, guitar, and "obsolete" references were first made.
# attacks on the viewers self-esteem # the suggestion that product will make the viewer sexually desireble # the suggestion that people who own the product are "better" than those who don't # targeting pre-teen children, who are unable to differentiate the fantasy of the toy commercial from the reality of a shoddy plastic toy costing 25 cents to build
this is different than the crap during the show itself how?
"You answer your own question here. Maybe, if you were a company, you could use the new information you have learned to be more effective in selling your product"
I didn't realize I was asking a question...I was making a statement that actually using the advertizing spot itself would be terrible to do. No questions involved.
"Skipping the commercials in broadcast television is no more theft than eating from the sample tray at your grocery store. The broadcast company is gambling that as you watch their content you will be convinced to make a purchasing decision based on its the advertising portion. Just like your local grocer is gambling that you will may like the products that he has on his sample tray enough to buy them."
WRONG. The grocery store is hoping you'll buy the thing they are giving away. The broadcasters aren't selling you anything - the cost of the shows they distribute is paid for by the commercials....which are bought by the companies doing the advertizing. Its a terrible comparison - I'd say apples to oranges, but they're not even both fruit.
That being said, I would love it if people would start improving themselves, and dislodge themselves from their couches. Its amazing how much richer life is when you watch less than an hour of tv a month.
You do realize it COSTS MONEY for broadcasters to provide you with that service, right? And that all that is asked in return is that you take a break every once in a while from the show, and rot your brain with a commercial instead?
Just how do you propose broadcast TV be paid for?
Get a clue. If you don't want to watch commericals, then...go running, or read a book. When you eat a traditional cake, you have to deal with the fact that it has fats and sugars in it. If you want a cake with no sugars or fats, then you're going to have to eat a non-traditional cake.
Watching tv while circumventing the commercials *is* theft - you're breaking the obvious social contract. No one is wronging you, you are wronging *them*.
That being said, Tivo is being very counter-productive. If someone is fastforwarding through an ad, that means they don't want to see them... I would be terrified to advertise to such a hostile audience, if I were a company.
You can have just as clean, and a better performing (volume per volume, response per response) sound with no clipping via a solid state amp than a tube amp.
An unfair comparison is a 200 watt tube amp compared to a 200 watt solid state amp, both at max output. Dollar per dollar, its apples and oranges.
"The topic is the 100th anniversary of the first tube, which acted as a diode, and a diode is not an amp either. But they all can be tubes. Perhaps you meant to post to some other topic regarding guitar amps."
Refer to the second half of the topic:
"Being a guitar player myself, I've come to truly appreciate the technology of the vacuum tube every time I crank up my amplifier. This 100-year-old grandfather of electronics, used by musicians and audiophiles across the world, has proven that profound advances in technology do not always render old technologies obsolete."
"Obsolete means no longer in use. You use them, and so do many others. You meant to say obsolescent; in other words becoming obsolete but still in use."
No, I meant to use the exact word that the topic used, in reference to that very word.
Check out part B, "1 a : no longer in use or no longer useful b : of a kind or style no longer current : OLD-FASHIONED"
Perfectly describes a tube amp, which is all I called BS on....for the reason previously given. A 200 watt solid state amp is cheaper than a 100 watt tube amp. Restrict (vie the volume knob) your output to 150watts, and you will never experience the "problem" solir state amps have that tube amps are so much better at.
To take out the small inference: if you have $500 to spend on an amp, you can have a clean sound with no clips for far less with solid state than with tube, volume to volume. And the solid state will actually be cleaner, since it responds better than a tube.
So...when the topic focuses on tube amps supposedly being better, I call BS.
you sir, obvious got his point. Which is that he knew that Hamilton's date was contested, so knowing that already he used it as a litmus. It is n't the *test* that failed, its the *tested*. Is one supposed to check every single damn thing written in Wikipedia against an outside source? If so, then what is the point of Wikipedia? How would someone going to Wikipedia as an actual source reference know to go elsewhere to check the date of Hamilton's birth? Answer: they wouldn't. That's what McHenry was getting to.
did you read my post at all? "Tube amps are still useful and fun, but they ARE obsolete." Amps. Tell me where the guitar amp references lost you. I don't know where else they're used, but I do know that just because a crt has a vacuum, it isn't the same as a "vacuum tube" valve. One makes little pixels glow, the other regulates circuit flow.
That, and I prefer plasma and lcd, thanks so much. CRT's are a bit of a waste.
for the record. That's right, BS. Tube amps are still useful and fun, but they ARE obsolete.
How can I say such a thing, esp since I own one and am a musician?
Simple. The ONLY difference between solid state and tube amps is how peaks are handled. A tube warms and cools, so its response is slower - a con. The "pro" is that it doesn't clip out at the top of a peak.
Simple solution: get an amp with a higher max output. A solid state amp with twice the max output will cost less than a tube amp, and then you don't have to worry about it. Turn it up 50% higher than the tube could have gone, and you still have room left to never hit your peaks...ie, never worry about the clipping. Therefore, the benefit of the tube never materializes...and you're 50% louder to boot.
No, people who like tubes are just infatuated with old stuff. No more complex than that.
does that not seem to be an obvious, harmless, practical joke to you? Do you really think that if someone looks up "more evil than satan," and they get back gooogle.com, that they will...do anything other than laugh?
I still use the same computer for real stuff that I've used for nearly 5 years...and it still works absolutely fabulous for me.
To play games, on the other hand, requires the latest greatest.
So when is the best time to upgrade? When you're trying to decide between WoW and EQ2 (haven't played a MMORPG in a couple years...gota see what I should play).
Text documents still get written, spreadsheets still computed, and movies still get watched just fine on my real system. its nice not having bloat...
The argument about populous states not drowning out the less populous states was the argument for having a bicameral legislature... Err...are you aware that the # of EC votes is not the # in the house, but is the # in both combined? California has 55 EC votes, South Dakota has 3. California had 33,871,648 people in 2000. South Dakota had 754,844.That's 615,848 per EC vote for Californians, 251,615 per for South Dakota.
This *isn't* just about House membership. EC was made not just to keep people from actually voting because they're dumb, but was made for the reason you're disagreeing with - so that the less populated states wouldn't get drowned out. PA dwarfed everything back then, population-wise. You don't think this very same sort of "problem" existed then? Take a look at some census numbers. It was purely intentional.
never had much problem with the sticks, it was the knobs that always broke for me. The tension-spin things...had two controllers off one plug? Or is my memory starting to fail...
slashdot changes stories??
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The story originally was (I hit my back button, and cut/pasted here): SexyFingers writes "Sun released Java 1.5. The non-API stuff that they've added made it finally "catch-up" with C# - like we were talking about before, since both language is built to support OOP from the ground-up, their constructs become almost identical as additional OOP "features" are supported overtime - so if you're doing C# and you're foundations in OOP is rock-solid, there really isn't any difference whether you're coding C# or Java."
"both language is built" being just one of the changes...now its "both languages are built..."
WTF? There are still grammatical errors in the "story," even with the changes. If there's nothing new to report, why can't we just have no new stories? Someone please make something like what/. used to be...
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its not that hard - you simply change where the docs and settings are saved temporarily (like, in "bob" or something), mount, copy from the temp spot, repoint, and boom - done. I mean, I bash windows with the best of them, but they've finally (sortof) got this thing that has been around in unix for a few hundred years.
Yeah, because pro-spyware PR doesn't help the industry in general...esp those companies that try to suggest they are legit.
The problem? That necessitates complete changeover. Once you have a single car on the road being driven by a human, there's a chaos factor that isn't being communicated to the other cars.
Sure, you can make cars without the tech illegal, but...that would be a bit to ask of the poor.
that's the title of the topic. Try reading the topic - I'm quoting the second half of it. That is where the music, guitar, and "obsolete" references were first made.
for what its worth, *I* didn't think you were funny...and, I agree with you.
how about just not watching tv? :P
# the suggestion that product will make the viewer sexually desireble
# the suggestion that people who own the product are "better" than those who don't
# targeting pre-teen children, who are unable to differentiate the fantasy of the toy commercial from the reality of a shoddy plastic toy costing 25 cents to build
this is different than the crap during the show itself how?
"You answer your own question here. Maybe, if you were a company, you could use the new information you have learned to be more effective in selling your product"
I didn't realize I was asking a question...I was making a statement that actually using the advertizing spot itself would be terrible to do. No questions involved.
WRONG. The grocery store is hoping you'll buy the thing they are giving away. The broadcasters aren't selling you anything - the cost of the shows they distribute is paid for by the commercials....which are bought by the companies doing the advertizing. Its a terrible comparison - I'd say apples to oranges, but they're not even both fruit.
That being said, I would love it if people would start improving themselves, and dislodge themselves from their couches. Its amazing how much richer life is when you watch less than an hour of tv a month.
Just how do you propose broadcast TV be paid for?
Get a clue. If you don't want to watch commericals, then...go running, or read a book. When you eat a traditional cake, you have to deal with the fact that it has fats and sugars in it. If you want a cake with no sugars or fats, then you're going to have to eat a non-traditional cake.
Watching tv while circumventing the commercials *is* theft - you're breaking the obvious social contract. No one is wronging you, you are wronging *them*.
That being said, Tivo is being very counter-productive. If someone is fastforwarding through an ad, that means they don't want to see them... I would be terrified to advertise to such a hostile audience, if I were a company.
meh, I shouldn't reply in broken spurts.
You can have just as clean, and a better performing (volume per volume, response per response) sound with no clipping via a solid state amp than a tube amp.
An unfair comparison is a 200 watt tube amp compared to a 200 watt solid state amp, both at max output. Dollar per dollar, its apples and oranges.
Refer to the second half of the topic:
"Being a guitar player myself, I've come to truly appreciate the technology of the vacuum tube every time I crank up my amplifier. This 100-year-old grandfather of electronics, used by musicians and audiophiles across the world, has proven that profound advances in technology do not always render old technologies obsolete."
"Obsolete means no longer in use. You use them, and so do many others. You meant to say obsolescent; in other words becoming obsolete but still in use."
No, I meant to use the exact word that the topic used, in reference to that very word.
Additionally, "obsolete".
Check out part B, "1 a : no longer in use or no longer useful b : of a kind or style no longer current : OLD-FASHIONED"
Perfectly describes a tube amp, which is all I called BS on....for the reason previously given. A 200 watt solid state amp is cheaper than a 100 watt tube amp. Restrict (vie the volume knob) your output to 150watts, and you will never experience the "problem" solir state amps have that tube amps are so much better at.
To take out the small inference: if you have $500 to spend on an amp, you can have a clean sound with no clips for far less with solid state than with tube, volume to volume. And the solid state will actually be cleaner, since it responds better than a tube.
So...when the topic focuses on tube amps supposedly being better, I call BS.
you sir, obvious got his point. Which is that he knew that Hamilton's date was contested, so knowing that already he used it as a litmus. It is n't the *test* that failed, its the *tested*.
Is one supposed to check every single damn thing written in Wikipedia against an outside source? If so, then what is the point of Wikipedia? How would someone going to Wikipedia as an actual source reference know to go elsewhere to check the date of Hamilton's birth? Answer: they wouldn't. That's what McHenry was getting to.
"Tube amps are still useful and fun, but they ARE obsolete." Amps. Tell me where the guitar amp references lost you. I don't know where else they're used, but I do know that just because a crt has a vacuum, it isn't the same as a "vacuum tube" valve. One makes little pixels glow, the other regulates circuit flow.
That, and I prefer plasma and lcd, thanks so much. CRT's are a bit of a waste.
How can I say such a thing, esp since I own one and am a musician?
Simple. The ONLY difference between solid state and tube amps is how peaks are handled. A tube warms and cools, so its response is slower - a con. The "pro" is that it doesn't clip out at the top of a peak.
Simple solution: get an amp with a higher max output. A solid state amp with twice the max output will cost less than a tube amp, and then you don't have to worry about it. Turn it up 50% higher than the tube could have gone, and you still have room left to never hit your peaks...ie, never worry about the clipping. Therefore, the benefit of the tube never materializes...and you're 50% louder to boot.
No, people who like tubes are just infatuated with old stuff. No more complex than that.
does that not seem to be an obvious, harmless, practical joke to you? Do you really think that if someone looks up "more evil than satan," and they get back gooogle.com, that they will...do anything other than laugh?
To play games, on the other hand, requires the latest greatest.
So when is the best time to upgrade? When you're trying to decide between WoW and EQ2 (haven't played a MMORPG in a couple years...gota see what I should play).
Text documents still get written, spreadsheets still computed, and movies still get watched just fine on my real system. its nice not having bloat...
wait, what is the -10% going to?
Err...are you aware that the # of EC votes is not the # in the house, but is the # in both combined? California has 55 EC votes, South Dakota has 3. California had 33,871,648 people in 2000. South Dakota had 754,844.That's 615,848 per EC vote for Californians, 251,615 per for South Dakota.
This *isn't* just about House membership. EC was made not just to keep people from actually voting because they're dumb, but was made for the reason you're disagreeing with - so that the less populated states wouldn't get drowned out. PA dwarfed everything back then, population-wise. You don't think this very same sort of "problem" existed then? Take a look at some census numbers. It was purely intentional.
never had much problem with the sticks, it was the knobs that always broke for me. The tension-spin things...had two controllers off one plug? Or is my memory starting to fail...
so what do you think about people who can't just pull up a simple google cache?
The world was a kinder, more simple place. And "news" didn't get edited after being published.
they changed that..."both languages are" now.
SexyFingers writes "Sun released Java 1.5. The non-API stuff that they've added made it finally "catch-up" with C# - like we were talking about before, since both language is built to support OOP from the ground-up, their constructs become almost identical as additional OOP "features" are supported overtime - so if you're doing C# and you're foundations in OOP is rock-solid, there really isn't any difference whether you're coding C# or Java."
"both language is built" being just one of the changes...now its "both languages are built..."
WTF? There are still grammatical errors in the "story," even with the changes. If there's nothing new to report, why can't we just have no new stories? Someone please make something like what /. used to be...
its a CODB, and a hazard he has to accept when choosing to use MS products.
I guess you've never heard of the Sacred band of Thebes, or...Sodom and Gomorrah?