I would deem those as essential services. A reasonable case can be built that students need NetMeeting to communicate with family members as an alternative to long distance telephone. This is especially important to foreign students who simply cannot afford the dollar/min or more to reach South America, Eastern Europe or Asia.
Real life example: My brother's GF is Peruvian and regularly uses ICQ and NetMeeting to keep in touch with Lima from Canada. We spend 90 min on the webcam last New Year's eve; something impossible with a telephone. I dare not think how much that would've cost in LD charges. ---
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Bubblewrap - you can never have too much bubblewrap
Bright-colored foam pellets, instead of plain white.
TUX-shaped foam pellets
Foam bricks that look like bricks (3 holes, red color)
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I Agree on everything but the 128k, what is wrong with 128k it sounds fine. most people CANNOT tell the difference between 128k and 192!
You're somewhat right. When I first started collecting, I couldn't tell either. Then something happenend. My ears 'trained' themselves... Don't know what happened but now I can just hear those swishes and the way the 'sh' sounds and cymbals get 'mushed up' by the bad encoding -- it's gotten to a point where I can hear it in pubs and bars where they have DBS-radio.
I went back to my first MP3 CDRs (full of 128s) and listened again. Bletch.
Oh and what's with the -1 TROLL with my original post??? I believe I am making a valid point about the quality. It's one thing about complaining of the quality of something you 'get for free' and quite another when you're paying. ---
The majority of MP3s floating out there were done by the clueless who:
used Line-In instead of DAC
If they DACed, they used a Crappy CD/CDRom (Jitter-bug is a dance, not an CDROM "feature")
Encode at 128k at the worst possible setting
Couldn't ID3 tag if their life depended on it
And don't get me started on incomplete, unverified, mislabeled songs...
It's like paying for a really bad tape of an FM broadcasted song. ---
"We don't intend to tax computers" were the 'firehose' words with which Catherine Tasca(PS) doused the hemicycle (the House) during the question period -- thrice. As a fireman, intent on drowning the Opposition turned pyromaniacs: "It's a tactic to shout fire without a blaze!" said the Minister to the smart-alecky right-wingers. "Eating your own words, EH!!! shouted Patrick Devedjian (RPR) ...
According to the Socialistes, Mrs Tasca should've kept he mouth shut rather than publically consider a tax on computer and other device susceptible of copying Intellectual Property. ...
Jean-Marc Ayrault but mostly François Hollande shouted their disagreement, underligning the incoherence of promoting tax cuts while announcing a new one even if not being of a fiscal nature... ...
The computer tax died in order to save government consistency. ---
Generic Honda AM-FM-Tape with a Philips eXpanium portable CD/MP3 player with Line-out-to-cassette dongle adapter and cigarette lighter adapter. Good enuf fer me. It's about US$200 maybe cheaper...
I believe some car radios have a line-in plug right on the front plate... even better... ---
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/
I use a Yamaha RXV-595 but it doesn't have SVideo switching:-(. The 795 and above do and support DTS too. It's got a very nice DSP effects processor builtin (Hall, Rock, Disco (!) ). For speakers, I recommend Paradigm, they're Canadian eh... ---
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45N 75W W of Cornwall, ON, CA (across from Massena, NY, US)
46N 74W E of St-Adele, QC, CA (bring Cross-country skis!)
46N 75W SE of Duhamel, QC, CA (no roads within 20 km!)
The minute someone comes out with an HDTV which can be neutered with a 'secret menu' everyone will pounce on it...
Same for HDVCR, HDVD or any other future Digital TV gear
As a matter of fact, in Europe, there is a thriving market of DeMacrovision and DeRegionCoding of DVD players.
I've already got my Fair Use Rights Enforcement System (SIMA CopyMaster) and am not afraid to use it...
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Grave of the Fireflies
Thanks, that's exactly the movie I was thinking of.
The mother dies of 3rd degree burns after their town is firebombed and the father is a casualty of war. There is a scene where they see the Hiroshima blast from afar, but they're not directly involved.
But yes, it's on the short list of Most Depressing Movies Ever
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Slashdot Mirror
It had all these great programs like OPUS and BINKLEYterm
Before TUX, there was OPUS!
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Something I found at www.dunfield.com
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I would deem those as essential services. A reasonable case can be built that students need NetMeeting to communicate with family members as an alternative to long distance telephone. This is especially important to foreign students who simply cannot afford the dollar/min or more to reach South America, Eastern Europe or Asia.
Real life example: My brother's GF is Peruvian and regularly uses ICQ and NetMeeting to keep in touch with Lima from Canada. We spend 90 min on the webcam last New Year's eve; something impossible with a telephone. I dare not think how much that would've cost in LD charges.
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George Takei DESPERATELY needs a job. He's now starring in the eMerchantClub infomercial. Scaaaary stuff.
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McCarthy's Communist witch hunt -> HUAC1953 (House Un-American Activities Commitee investigation)
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"We direct that the preliminary injunction fashioned by the district court prior to this appeal shall remain stayed until it is modified by the district court to conform to the requirements of this opinion. We order a partial remand of this case on the date of the filing of this opinion for the limited purpose of permitting the district court to proceed with the settlement and entry of the modified preliminary injunction".
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Bubblewrap - you can never have too much bubblewrap
Bright-colored foam pellets, instead of plain white.
TUX-shaped foam pellets
Foam bricks that look like bricks (3 holes, red color)
---
Yawn. Pink Floyd's PULSE, 1995
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For you non-trekkies:
Star Trek : The Motionless Picture -- Nice shots, but hardly any action.
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ArthurDent - Nick taken
FordPrefect - Nick taken
ZaphodBeeblebrox - Nick taken
Slartibartfast - Nick taken
Stavro
Stavro was taken on slashdot so I switch o for 0 and there we are.
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You're somewhat right. When I first started collecting, I couldn't tell either. Then something happenend. My ears 'trained' themselves... Don't know what happened but now I can just hear those swishes and the way the 'sh' sounds and cymbals get 'mushed up' by the bad encoding -- it's gotten to a point where I can hear it in pubs and bars where they have DBS-radio.
I went back to my first MP3 CDRs (full of 128s) and listened again. Bletch.
Oh and what's with the -1 TROLL with my original post??? I believe I am making a valid point about the quality. It's one thing about complaining of the quality of something you 'get for free' and quite another when you're paying.
---
The majority of MP3s floating out there were done by the clueless who :
used Line-In instead of DAC
If they DACed, they used a Crappy CD/CDRom (Jitter-bug is a dance, not an CDROM "feature")
Encode at 128k at the worst possible setting
Couldn't ID3 tag if their life depended on it
And don't get me started on incomplete, unverified, mislabeled songs...
It's like paying for a really bad tape of an FM broadcasted song.
---
GNU - best ...
Free (beer) - Good
Commercial - If I can eval it for the job
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The 'W' keys were all missing from the White House when GWB's aides moved in. It was a 'welcome' prank by the departing Clintonites...
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Photocopy that B.R.M envelope, fold the 81/2x11 in three, stuff with junk then send ONE HUNDRED OF THEM BACK.
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"We don't intend to tax computers" were the 'firehose' words with which Catherine Tasca(PS) doused the hemicycle (the House) during the question period -- thrice. As a fireman, intent on drowning the Opposition turned pyromaniacs: "It's a tactic to shout fire without a blaze!" said the Minister to the smart-alecky right-wingers. "Eating your own words, EH!!! shouted Patrick Devedjian (RPR)
...
... ...
...
According to the Socialistes, Mrs Tasca should've kept he mouth shut rather than publically consider a tax on computer and other device susceptible of copying Intellectual Property.
Jean-Marc Ayrault but mostly François Hollande shouted their disagreement, underligning the incoherence of promoting tax cuts while announcing a new one even if not being of a fiscal nature
The computer tax died in order to save government consistency.
---
Generic Honda AM-FM-Tape with a Philips eXpanium portable CD/MP3 player with Line-out-to-cassette dongle adapter and cigarette lighter adapter. Good enuf fer me. It's about US$200 maybe cheaper... ... even better...
I believe some car radios have a line-in plug right on the front plate
---
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/ :-(. The 795 and above do and support DTS too. It's got a very nice DSP effects processor builtin (Hall, Rock, Disco (!) ). For speakers, I recommend Paradigm, they're Canadian eh...
I use a Yamaha RXV-595 but it doesn't have SVideo switching
---
45N 76W N of Smith Falls, ON, CA 46N 76W N of Kazabazua, QC, CA
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45N 74W Rockburn, QC, CA (almost on CA,US border)
45N 75W W of Cornwall, ON, CA (across from Massena, NY, US)
46N 74W E of St-Adele, QC, CA (bring Cross-country skis!)
46N 75W SE of Duhamel, QC, CA (no roads within 20 km!)
---
The minute someone comes out with an HDTV which can be neutered with a 'secret menu' everyone will pounce on it... ...
Same for HDVCR, HDVD or any other future Digital TV gear
As a matter of fact, in Europe, there is a thriving market of DeMacrovision and DeRegionCoding of DVD players.
I've already got my Fair Use Rights Enforcement System (SIMA CopyMaster) and am not afraid to use it
---
Thanks, that's exactly the movie I was thinking of.
The mother dies of 3rd degree burns after their town is firebombed and the father is a casualty of war. There is a scene where they see the Hiroshima blast from afar, but they're not directly involved.
But yes, it's on the short list of Most Depressing Movies Ever
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Moro, the big bad mother Wolf; But her voice was mangled by a vocoder or some similar device.
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