And no matter what you decide, if you can, just get out and vote tomorrow.
The creators of that "Team America" movies (same guys behind South Park) got hammered because they said, basically, that if you're clueless don't bother to vote.
What say you/.? Do those that truely have no idea or opinion really need to get out and vote? Does having some (more) randomness thrown in really help? Or is it all just a ploy to boost the "voter turnout" numbers, so when countries like Chile get a 98% turnout, we don't look like doofuses?
On the AKC registration forms there is a box marked "restrictions -- non-breeding". Dogs are cheaper to register this way, and you can get their pedigree, but you'll never be able to register its puppies with the AKC.
And without the AKC registration papers, purebred doesn't mean anything. You can't show or breed with a registered animal. (Well, you CAN in non-sanctioned shows.)
Court of law or not, no AKC papers, it don't mean shit.
Interesting. I have not seen this trend in the purebred dog market.
My wife sells AKC mini dachshunds and they can run from $300 to $1,500 depending on size, color, conformance, etc.
HOWEVER, a neutered animal tops out at $250 or so. The majority of the value is breeding potential. This also includes animals we've purchased. I've never seen pets (non-show/breeder, neutered or non-papered) sold for more than $250.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try. -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822.3.
Don't you mean Yoda?
If this is a joke I don't get, I apologize for my stupidity.
Yeah, me too. Considering Dr. Spock was a child development psychologist who wrote some books back in the 1960s (?). He had nothing to do with Stardates. That would be Mr. Spock, who was not a Dr.
AES crypto: IPSec, loopback filesystems, PGP, etc.
MPEG-4: Since the CN400 chipset (http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/c-seri es/cn400/)
These are mini-ITX boards we are talking about. You only get 1 PCI slot in these units and I wouldn't be interested in wasting it on a video card that accelerates DVDs or DiVX.
As for testing a "general purpose CPU"...no, I'm NOT that interested. This is a mini-ITX PLATFORM, not a CPU. The CPU is only one component and things like the onboard graphics, 3D acceleration, crypto, video/audio decoding, SATA/RAID support, 10/100/1000 Ethernet support, etc. matter quite a bit.
I can't get to the article, so for those that have read it...
Do those M10K-paling numbers include AES-crypto? How about MPEG-2/4 encoding/decoding? The VIA boards have dedicated hardware for this stuff that offloads from the CPU and really ramps up nicely.
Or are they comparing such useful measures as SPECmarks, GFlops, and other meaningless drivel?
This is what happens when you use a Mac (Apple has been dying for years) with a BSD-dying-for-years-based OS and live in a country where it goes dark for months on end. It infects your thinking. You start watching film noir, dressing in black and predicting the death of everything from the Internet to your neighbor's dog.
Lighten up already. If the Internet takes as long to die as either Apple or BSD, we're safe well into the next generation or two.
Geez, if parents are that pissed off about gambling, it's a good thing Neopets didn't go with players being able to pimp out their pets to make some extra cash...
I once developed (and sold) an entire jail booking system on Amiga 3000 computers using off the shelf products and tying them together with ARexx. Everything from mug shots to personal items inventory to tamper-resistant wrist bands with photos and bar codes.
IR-24 capture card, Art Department, Superbase & ARexx.
Make the pusher satellite 10,000 times more massive than the spacecraft it pushes.
As a bonus, when the orbin eventually decays and it starts to fall back to Earth, there are no silly arguments about fixing it. It's so damn big, we HAVE to fix it or lose a major city.:-)
And how the hell does Hooters serve chicken wings that are the size of turkey wings anyway? They seem to be 30% larger than the chicken wings you get at a pub.
I run my computer at > 1024x768 res and very, very few televisions can handle this.
If you want to restrict yourself to 800x600 and below, then go ahead and hook your computer up to your TV. Yes, SOME of them can do 1280x800 and the like, but those are damned expensive and most people don't have them laying around.
Indeed.. which is a crying shame considering what a piece of shit the XBox is compared to recent gaming PC's. 3.4 Ghz with a gig and a half of ram and a GeForce 6800 anyone?
Please point me to where I can get one of those setups for $149, or $100 used.
Hell, for the price of just the FX6800 I can get *3* X-Boxes and games and plug them in around the house for network head-2-head play!
Having the DVI, RF and S-Video outs disabled on the box, along with "can't control the digital audio volume via remote" isn't a "one person can't figure out" thing. It is crap, and not ready for prime time, just like he calls it.
Would you prefer if any moron could claim to have a rocket and start tossing people up into space?
YES! And I'd start a fund to see if we could send Britney Spears, NSync, The Backstreet Boys, Michael Jackson, most (if not ALL) of Congress (this covers Kerry), the Bush "team" and probably half of Hollywood -- all up FIRST!
I'll go thru phases where I'm obsessed with a game and *HAVE* to finish it. That is, assuming it has a "finish". Then, I won't touch any game for a month or so, sometimes longer.
Most recently it has been Mech Warrior on the XBox and NWN: SoU & HoTU on my Linux PC.
It looks to me like everyone I've ever met has SOME form of an addiction. It could be cigarettes, soap operas, "reality TV", blogs, junk food, talk shows, golf, their car, religion, you name it. (Funny how so many revolve around television.)
Addiction is normal, relax and stop enriching psychologists needlessly.
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Yup.
Idaho is so far in the Repulican pocket we can count the pocket lint balls. All 3 (woo hoo!) electoral votes will go to Bush.
And both my wife and myself are voting for Badnarik.
And no matter what you decide, if you can, just get out and vote tomorrow.
/.? Do those that truely have no idea or opinion really need to get out and vote? Does having some (more) randomness thrown in really help? Or is it all just a ploy to boost the "voter turnout" numbers, so when countries like Chile get a 98% turnout, we don't look like doofuses?
The creators of that "Team America" movies (same guys behind South Park) got hammered because they said, basically, that if you're clueless don't bother to vote.
What say you
Well, it was briefly mentioned in the prior /. article that Brazil is home to the world's first deployed OSS ATM software.
Maybe it is worth looking into for others.
Not to mention the absolute joke it is by claiming the Republicans are trying to keep the costs down. What? They running out of money? Ha!
The bar tab at the RNC probably cost more than their entire hosting bill for the year!
Montreal, as in Quebec? Didn't you guys want to cecede from CANADA? Why did I think that push wasn't so Quebec could join the US?
Well...
On the AKC registration forms there is a box marked "restrictions -- non-breeding". Dogs are cheaper to register this way, and you can get their pedigree, but you'll never be able to register its puppies with the AKC.
And without the AKC registration papers, purebred doesn't mean anything. You can't show or breed with a registered animal. (Well, you CAN in non-sanctioned shows.)
Court of law or not, no AKC papers, it don't mean shit.
Interesting. I have not seen this trend in the purebred dog market.
My wife sells AKC mini dachshunds and they can run from $300 to $1,500 depending on size, color, conformance, etc.
HOWEVER, a neutered animal tops out at $250 or so. The majority of the value is breeding potential. This also includes animals we've purchased. I've never seen pets (non-show/breeder, neutered or non-papered) sold for more than $250.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822.3.
Don't you mean Yoda?
If this is a joke I don't get, I apologize for my stupidity.
Yeah, me too. Considering Dr. Spock was a child development psychologist who wrote some books back in the 1960s (?). He had nothing to do with Stardates. That would be Mr. Spock, who was not a Dr.
And in Spanish, "gambas" means "shrimp" as in seafood.
-Charles
AES crypto: IPSec, loopback filesystems, PGP, etc.
i es/cn400/)
MPEG-4: Since the CN400 chipset (http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/c-ser
These are mini-ITX boards we are talking about. You only get 1 PCI slot in these units and I wouldn't be interested in wasting it on a video card that accelerates DVDs or DiVX.
As for testing a "general purpose CPU"...no, I'm NOT that interested. This is a mini-ITX PLATFORM, not a CPU. The CPU is only one component and things like the onboard graphics, 3D acceleration, crypto, video/audio decoding, SATA/RAID support, 10/100/1000 Ethernet support, etc. matter quite a bit.
-Charles
I can't get to the article, so for those that have read it...
Do those M10K-paling numbers include AES-crypto? How about MPEG-2/4 encoding/decoding? The VIA boards have dedicated hardware for this stuff that offloads from the CPU and really ramps up nicely.
Or are they comparing such useful measures as SPECmarks, GFlops, and other meaningless drivel?
-Charles
This is what happens when you use a Mac (Apple has been dying for years) with a BSD-dying-for-years-based OS and live in a country where it goes dark for months on end. It infects your thinking. You start watching film noir, dressing in black and predicting the death of everything from the Internet to your neighbor's dog.
Lighten up already. If the Internet takes as long to die as either Apple or BSD, we're safe well into the next generation or two.
-Charles
What is the sound of ten thousand geeks updating the Amazon.com wish list all at once?
Geez, if parents are that pissed off about gambling, it's a good thing Neopets didn't go with players being able to pimp out their pets to make some extra cash...
Sounds like Neopets meets Sims Online.
I once developed (and sold) an entire jail booking system on Amiga 3000 computers using off the shelf products and tying them together with ARexx. Everything from mug shots to personal items inventory to tamper-resistant wrist bands with photos and bar codes.
IR-24 capture card, Art Department, Superbase & ARexx.
THAT was computing power!
-Charles
Mass.
:-)
Make the pusher satellite 10,000 times more massive than the spacecraft it pushes.
As a bonus, when the orbin eventually decays and it starts to fall back to Earth, there are no silly arguments about fixing it. It's so damn big, we HAVE to fix it or lose a major city.
Platinum, diamonds, nickel, iron and magnesium are biggies, IIRC. http://science.howstuffworks.com/asteroid-mining1. htm
-Charles
Wasn't that the entire reason behind AMD's use of the P-ratings? That performance was measured in more than just MHz.
Hell, Intel has spend DECADES convincing the public that MHZ is king and now they are (once again) following AMD's lead.
HA!
-Charles
And how the hell does Hooters serve chicken wings that are the size of turkey wings anyway? They seem to be 30% larger than the chicken wings you get at a pub.
Hooters serves chicken wings? I never noticed...
No.
I run my computer at > 1024x768 res and very, very few televisions can handle this.
If you want to restrict yourself to 800x600 and below, then go ahead and hook your computer up to your TV. Yes, SOME of them can do 1280x800 and the like, but those are damned expensive and most people don't have them laying around.
-Charles
Indeed.. which is a crying shame considering what a piece of shit the XBox is compared to recent gaming PC's. 3.4 Ghz with a gig and a half of ram and a GeForce 6800 anyone?
Please point me to where I can get one of those setups for $149, or $100 used.
Hell, for the price of just the FX6800 I can get *3* X-Boxes and games and plug them in around the house for network head-2-head play!
Having the DVI, RF and S-Video outs disabled on the box, along with "can't control the digital audio volume via remote" isn't a "one person can't figure out" thing. It is crap, and not ready for prime time, just like he calls it.
-Charles
Would you prefer if any moron could claim to have a rocket and start tossing people up into space?
YES! And I'd start a fund to see if we could send Britney Spears, NSync, The Backstreet Boys, Michael Jackson, most (if not ALL) of Congress (this covers Kerry), the Bush "team" and probably half of Hollywood -- all up FIRST!
I'll go thru phases where I'm obsessed with a game and *HAVE* to finish it. That is, assuming it has a "finish". Then, I won't touch any game for a month or so, sometimes longer.
Most recently it has been Mech Warrior on the XBox and NWN: SoU & HoTU on my Linux PC.
It looks to me like everyone I've ever met has SOME form of an addiction. It could be cigarettes, soap operas, "reality TV", blogs, junk food, talk shows, golf, their car, religion, you name it. (Funny how so many revolve around television.)
Addiction is normal, relax and stop enriching psychologists needlessly.
-Charles
You missed the part where Congress is already considering legislation to waive liability for the companies in passengers sign a waiver.
So, unless there is negligence involved, the process is already started.
-Charles
[W00t! My 1,000th post! God! I need a life!]