Sounds like what I had back in NJ for an absentee ballot - real voting booths with levers and all on the right day, little oval if you did it earlier or couldn't be there...
Yeah, it was the same sticker... but I took it as a good thing - it one more lame sticker than I expected this morning (ask me after the election if I'm still in a good mood;-)
I was about the fifth person at my poll site this morning - no line at all... more elecion workers than voters by a good measure. Using MN's same-day-registration, I was able to register and vote in under ten minutes... and I got a little red sticker.
Heck, even if you look at bottles of Vitamin E:
"Vitamin E has been shown to promote <insert good stuff about healing, bones, etc>.*
* - these statements have not been evaluated by the FDA"
or some similar statement. The FDA is backed up enough with requests from drug companies for prescription medicines, and if every Mom&Pop healer had to submit their 'Mustard seed exiler with snake oil' in order to sell it... plus it would be an enforcement nightmare.
Did I mention next week I'll be selling a sure-fire solution for myopia? (for only $19.99, I'll tell you to increase the font size when you read/. - shoot, gave it away...)
(as an RPI Alum)...
ITS/ACS/CIS/whatever has always been very helpful to the law enforcement types (even Public Safety when they questioned me for...- but that's another story, I digress). In this case, it doesn't seem like ITS had anything to do with it, though... The firewall logs sounds more like the ones from the yankees.com side, not the relatively new dormnet firewall. ITS does not have keys to the rooms - Res-Life (a former RA speaking here) is compelled to comply with any legal warrant... not much they can do, either...
Legal warrents carry a lot of weight at schools - it's not a matter of rolling over easily, as avoiding charges of obstructing justice and the like. Not a fun situation to be in.
The Atari joysticks also worked on the C-64/128... though I eventually ended getting replacement pairs for both the 2600 and 64 (it's amazing how quickly one wears out those things...) --
Dunno, plain text and extrans used to work, until one day, a long time ago, they suddenly switched names... and thus began the reign of the confused slashdot community. People who were troubled by the tags started posting about young teenage girls, breakfast foods, and prehistoric man chatter. They gained followers, recruited friends, and soon the dominion was overrun with pre-pubescent males trying to gain esteem among their peers. Gone was the Age of Wisdom, the Age of Legends... There are no beginnings or ending to Slashdot. What is, what was, and what shall be may yet... oh wait... been reading too much Wheel of Time... --
I do a bitwise verify after a disk rip for each track, and verify the sound for any discrepancies. I also re-rip the burnt disc and verify that against the original (repeat error screening). I've never had any problems with the burns, except for Imation media (never any other kind), or my old HP SureStore 6020i (there's a class action suit against HP for that drive, among others).
I've never used EAC, but I might have to check that out. --
If you have a badly burned CD:
1) Why rip from that one - get a better one
2) a real drive will still help. A plextor ripping at half of it's normal speed for extra error correction will still take less than 20 minutes to rip a full 70 minutes of music.
I don't work for Plextor, but ever since I purchased the 12/20 back in 1996, I'll never buy another brand - they work better, more reliably, and last longer than other readers or burners I've had.
Get a real drive that supports high-speed error-correcting digital ripping (think Plextor) and do it better with less errors. If you don't have the hardware to do it, why bother?
I have a Plextor 40x UW SCSI - true digital rips at 20x and a Plextor SCSI Burner 8/2/20 (a little old). I will often dump the disk to an image first - takes a couple minutes - a full CD burn takes less than ten minutes...
If you are ripping a CD with a crappy IDE drive, you deserve to wait a few hours... --
"Atlantic Records has even begun to include the Winamp program on some music CDs, such as Matchbox 20's latest release, ``Mad Season.'' This basically provides all the software someone with a CD burner would need to make illegal, high-quality copies."
Funny - I've never needed winamp to make copies of any disk (software or audio). CD->CD copy works - - and most burning programs let you dump to a HD img if you need it... they don't ship a blank CD, either. Just another misleading statement.
Pardon the question, but don't you mean too *low* a signal/noise ratio - high would imply high signal, low noise (not quite what you find around here. Browsing at 1 helps greatly, though.
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I pronounce 'gif': 'skippy' (super chunk, of course).
But you never capitalize email (or e-mail) even when it occurs at the beginning of a sentence - you know, one of those 'rare' exceptions in English 8^)
... it seems slower to me to pronounce it 'emmail' than 'ee-mail'... I tried it a few times each way - sounds like too much peanut butter stuck to the roof of the mouth... got some funny looks, too. --
Hmmm, the 21" FD Trinitron (the flattest CRTs available) are ~$950-1100 each. That and they take up a lot more real estate than a few flat panels (which is where the real savings comes in). The cost of this particular screen set is quite ridiculous, but the idea is good. The SGI "Reality Center" displays are an amazing thing to behold - I've been lucky enough to see one in person (can't actually afford that, either).
Kind of like a computer chair - $80 for the chair that I used for the past couple years at home (until the welds broke), $800 for a Hermann Miller Aeron (mmmmmm). I can tell you that when I had one of those at a previous job, the cost of the chair was well worth the comfort and relief (bad back and all). Sometimes good things are worth paying for - I'd like some of my desk back from my 21" monitor...
I saw them in NY a few years back - what a show! Everyone who sits in the front n rows is given a poncho... it gets a little messy. I was amazed that they ended up on the Intel commercials (still haven't decided my feelings on that one...
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Sounds like what I had back in NJ for an absentee ballot - real voting booths with levers and all on the right day, little oval if you did it earlier or couldn't be there...
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Yeah, it was the same sticker... but I took it as a good thing - it one more lame sticker than I expected this morning (ask me after the election if I'm still in a good mood ;-)
No exit pollsters here either.
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we have a big 11x17 sheet of paper, an a black marker.
You just connect the arrows..
Pres/VP choice 1 <== ==
Pres/VP choice 2 <==-==
.
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Pres/VP choice n <== ==
Pretty high tech, huh?
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I was about the fifth person at my poll site this morning - no line at all... more elecion workers than voters by a good measure. Using MN's same-day-registration, I was able to register and vote in under ten minutes... and I got a little red sticker.
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I think it was "None of the above"...
but yeah, I thought of that, too...
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Heck, even if you look at bottles of Vitamin E:
/. - shoot, gave it away...)
"Vitamin E has been shown to promote <insert good stuff about healing, bones, etc>.*
* - these statements have not been evaluated by the FDA"
or some similar statement. The FDA is backed up enough with requests from drug companies for prescription medicines, and if every Mom&Pop healer had to submit their 'Mustard seed exiler with snake oil' in order to sell it... plus it would be an enforcement nightmare.
Did I mention next week I'll be selling a sure-fire solution for myopia? (for only $19.99, I'll tell you to increase the font size when you read
--
(as an RPI Alum)...
ITS/ACS/CIS/whatever has always been very helpful to the law enforcement types (even Public Safety when they questioned me for...- but that's another story, I digress). In this case, it doesn't seem like ITS had anything to do with it, though... The firewall logs sounds more like the ones from the yankees.com side, not the relatively new dormnet firewall. ITS does not have keys to the rooms - Res-Life (a former RA speaking here) is compelled to comply with any legal warrant... not much they can do, either...
Legal warrents carry a lot of weight at schools - it's not a matter of rolling over easily, as avoiding charges of obstructing justice and the like. Not a fun situation to be in.
tower@CANNED_MEAT_SUBSTANCEalum.rpi.edu
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The Atari joysticks also worked on the C-64/128... though I eventually ended getting replacement pairs for both the 2600 and 64 (it's amazing how quickly one wears out those things...)
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> I for one will be sticking with MIPS and SPARC until they finally die. Here's to hoping that will never happen.
Cast my votes with Alpha AXP and POWER architectures...
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>"You transaction have be choosen as the victim of a deadlock"
Sounds like the instructions on those assemble-it-all-yourself kits from K-Mart...
"Please be happy to waiting for most honorable deadlock to join the ancestors." ?
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Dunno, plain text and extrans used to work, until one day, a long time ago, they suddenly switched names... and thus began the reign of the confused slashdot community. People who were troubled by the tags started posting about young teenage girls, breakfast foods, and prehistoric man chatter. They gained followers, recruited friends, and soon the dominion was overrun with pre-pubescent males trying to gain esteem among their peers. Gone was the Age of Wisdom, the Age of Legends... There are no beginnings or ending to Slashdot. What is, what was, and what shall be may yet... oh wait... been reading too much Wheel of Time...
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I do a bitwise verify after a disk rip for each track, and verify the sound for any discrepancies. I also re-rip the burnt disc and verify that against the original (repeat error screening). I've never had any problems with the burns, except for Imation media (never any other kind), or my old HP SureStore 6020i (there's a class action suit against HP for that drive, among others).
I've never used EAC, but I might have to check that out.
--
If you have a badly burned CD:
1) Why rip from that one - get a better one
2) a real drive will still help. A plextor ripping at half of it's normal speed for extra error correction will still take less than 20 minutes to rip a full 70 minutes of music.
I don't work for Plextor, but ever since I purchased the 12/20 back in 1996, I'll never buy another brand - they work better, more reliably, and last longer than other readers or burners I've had.
--
Get a real drive that supports high-speed error-correcting digital ripping (think Plextor) and do it better with less errors. If you don't have the hardware to do it, why bother?
--
I have a Plextor 40x UW SCSI - true digital rips at 20x and a Plextor SCSI Burner 8/2/20 (a little old). I will often dump the disk to an image first - takes a couple minutes - a full CD burn takes less than ten minutes...
If you are ripping a CD with a crappy IDE drive, you deserve to wait a few hours...
--
"Atlantic Records has even begun to include the Winamp program on some music CDs, such as Matchbox 20's latest release, ``Mad Season.'' This basically provides all the software someone with a CD burner would need to make illegal, high-quality copies."
Funny - I've never needed winamp to make copies of any disk (software or audio). CD->CD copy works - - and most burning programs let you dump to a HD img if you need it... they don't ship a blank CD, either. Just another misleading statement.
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Pardon the question, but don't you mean too *low* a signal/noise ratio - high would imply high signal, low noise (not quite what you find around here. Browsing at 1 helps greatly, though.
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I pronounce 'gif': 'skippy' (super chunk, of course).
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Lotus notes didn't recognize 'Internet' in my notes before I added it, either...
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give it a rest - it wasn't intentional (and even if it was, he missed him by a good measure).
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But you never capitalize email (or e-mail) even when it occurs at the beginning of a sentence - you know, one of those 'rare' exceptions in English 8^)
... it seems slower to me to pronounce it 'emmail' than 'ee-mail'... I tried it a few times each way - sounds like too much peanut butter stuck to the roof of the mouth... got some funny looks, too.
--
Hmmm, the 21" FD Trinitron (the flattest CRTs available) are ~$950-1100 each. That and they take up a lot more real estate than a few flat panels (which is where the real savings comes in). The cost of this particular screen set is quite ridiculous, but the idea is good. The SGI "Reality Center" displays are an amazing thing to behold - I've been lucky enough to see one in person (can't actually afford that, either).
Kind of like a computer chair - $80 for the chair that I used for the past couple years at home (until the welds broke), $800 for a Hermann Miller Aeron (mmmmmm). I can tell you that when I had one of those at a previous job, the cost of the chair was well worth the comfort and relief (bad back and all). Sometimes good things are worth paying for - I'd like some of my desk back from my 21" monitor...
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Yup, which is as big as a 20" CRT, and many 21" CRTs... with three of them, that's not too shabby.
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>Now, wouldn't that be cooler?
Actually, at ~100-150W/screen, I'd say it would be rather hot in there.
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I saw them in NY a few years back - what a show! Everyone who sits in the front n rows is given a poncho... it gets a little messy. I was amazed that they ended up on the Intel commercials (still haven't decided my feelings on that one...
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