is blue ray even that important? the entertainment (content creation) industry is moving from selling us shit on platters to selling us shit as services, so if you skip blue ray and SACD you can go straight to streaming movies and music without investing in $600 blue ray readers. oh, sorry, the prices came down just as i decided to drop $10/month on netflix. that's 5 years of entertainment for 1 freaking player with no content.
if steve jobs gave a shit about the desktop pc market, they'd sell these fuckers for $449. but no, they're a boutique manufacturer with 30% markup, who gives a care about their price-gouging. Leo Laporte calls in the "Macintosh Tax". if they were better priced, i'd put them everywhere (my home, my relatives, my customers). but they won't, so I won't.
i don't want an imac, i need inputs for my wii, PS2, XBox, and whatever else. TVs give you inputs, not imacs.
plus on my mac mini (that i bought this march, yay me) i tested the dr. botts HDMI converter and it SUCKS compared to RGB, quality-wise. the colors break up and everything is pixellated.
i ended up replacing the crappy apple 320gb drive with a 7200rpm 500gb drive (non-apple) and the price shot up another $120. so i'm out a cool grand for the "better" model with STILL not nearly enough space for my protools, cubase, and Logic files. bought a drobo and now i've got a cool 40% free space with redundancy, yay me. the 37" tv i'm using for a screen looks great and altogether around the same price as apple's 27" core i5 imac, so damn it would be nice if apple used a newer/faster cpu on the mini.
still i'm pleased that i don't have to come home to windows 7 authentication errors and blue screens and all the other bullshit that comes from having to support a microsoft desktop os.
people who download music aren't the same people who buy music, and assuming that if you stop everyone from downloading music, you're likely not going to convert 100% of them into paying consumers. they might just say "fuck it."
banning the burka makes as much sense as banning female castration (genital mutilation). it's a practice whose only use is to keep women in subjugation. the burka is to Muslim women what leg irons were to the slaves of the American south.
i feel no desire to protect the religious primacy of zealots who follow the belief system set in place by a 53 year old child rapist. so i have no qualms about portraying muhammed as a pig, because in reality, he was far worse than an animal that lies about in shit all day.
stochastic screens help when scanning documents by allowing you to get pretty good visuals with lower resolution (fewer ppi). not sure how the stochastic method could help with computing though. don't the values need to be either ON or OFF? stochastic screens give the illusion of gray (both on AND off)
a bitTorrent download is many times more damaging than a stolen copy.
baloney. a dvd stolen from a store represents an item that can no longer be purchased at the register. a file shared online is downloaded by people who never had any intention of buying a copy. filesharers aren't thieves, they're just cheapskates or broke muthas. ask anyone who's using torrents why they don't buy movies and they'll tell you they never had any intention to.
I'm curious to learn what numbers they're using for their analysis, since BP has been cagey and lying about the actual amount of oil flowing from the leak. For their model to predict accurately, they'll have to use better numbers than BP is fudging us with.
I concur. Why add extra levels of hassle if the.BAT does the job you need? K.I.S.S. is a terrible band, but a great acronym to follow when developing solutions that other people will be using.
however, DOS batch commands aren't very 1990's. they're more 1980's.
just because something happened in the past doesn't mean that it will happen again. let's take a hard look at the facts and the numbers, and not be frightened by prophecy. statistics tell the story that you want to tell.
and yet the US ignores international laws on torture and the rights of detainees. soldiers can do whatever the fuck they want, including stripping men naked and threatening them with attack dogs, and suffer no consequence until the photographs get the generals in enough trouble to scapegoat an enlisted man (or woman)
i dont trust soldiers or lawyers or judges or cops or politicians. they're mostly a bunch of cruel, self-righteous liars.
employers can make up whatever standard / rule / excuse for firing somebody. it's usually all political anyway. if she's stupid enough to post about using drugs, she probably needed to learn this little lesson.
what do you expect from the state that gave us George W. Bush, the worst president ever, the guy who led us into 2 unwinnable, unending, UNFUNDED wars and drove the US government into moral and fiscal bankruptcy?
state-run institutions can be great, but in america, cash and profit are king, so private organizations will always get top billing over state agencies. that's why the top universities are harvard, yale, princeton, stanford.
what kids need to know in terms of science and history (in primary and secondary schools) shouldn't be decided at a local level, but at a national level so that kids in every state are able to compete on an even level when applying to be a student on the university level. a certain amount of math and english is likely easier to assess since the SATs have for years focused on math and english, but even back when i was in high school in the early 1980's, they had watered down the history curriculum so that we didn't even get to the vietnam war. i think that was a plan by the teacher so he didn't have to cover a controversial subject - what horseshit. american history is pretty much the same story to every american, and making the "contract on america" any more important than the farce that newt gingrich drew up gives it far too much credit.
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is blue ray even that important? the entertainment (content creation) industry is moving from selling us shit on platters to selling us shit as services, so if you skip blue ray and SACD you can go straight to streaming movies and music without investing in $600 blue ray readers. oh, sorry, the prices came down just as i decided to drop $10/month on netflix. that's 5 years of entertainment for 1 freaking player with no content.
you get what you pay for. it's a dell, so it's prone to SUCK.
if steve jobs gave a shit about the desktop pc market, they'd sell these fuckers for $449. but no, they're a boutique manufacturer with 30% markup, who gives a care about their price-gouging. Leo Laporte calls in the "Macintosh Tax". if they were better priced, i'd put them everywhere (my home, my relatives, my customers). but they won't, so I won't.
i don't want an imac, i need inputs for my wii, PS2, XBox, and whatever else. TVs give you inputs, not imacs.
plus on my mac mini (that i bought this march, yay me) i tested the dr. botts HDMI converter and it SUCKS compared to RGB, quality-wise. the colors break up and everything is pixellated.
i ended up replacing the crappy apple 320gb drive with a 7200rpm 500gb drive (non-apple) and the price shot up another $120. so i'm out a cool grand for the "better" model with STILL not nearly enough space for my protools, cubase, and Logic files. bought a drobo and now i've got a cool 40% free space with redundancy, yay me. the 37" tv i'm using for a screen looks great and altogether around the same price as apple's 27" core i5 imac, so damn it would be nice if apple used a newer/faster cpu on the mini.
still i'm pleased that i don't have to come home to windows 7 authentication errors and blue screens and all the other bullshit that comes from having to support a microsoft desktop os.
people who download music aren't the same people who buy music, and assuming that if you stop everyone from downloading music, you're likely not going to convert 100% of them into paying consumers. they might just say "fuck it."
or to help some future government spy on it's own citizens. oh wait, that's exactly what the FUCK they're doing.
abortions might DECREASE if men didn't have to pay child support because men might not pressure women to have so many abortions.
muslims suck and their religion is a sucky extension of their limited ability to reason.
banning the burka makes as much sense as banning female castration (genital mutilation). it's a practice whose only use is to keep women in subjugation. the burka is to Muslim women what leg irons were to the slaves of the American south.
i feel no desire to protect the religious primacy of zealots who follow the belief system set in place by a 53 year old child rapist. so i have no qualms about portraying muhammed as a pig, because in reality, he was far worse than an animal that lies about in shit all day.
stochastic screens help when scanning documents by allowing you to get pretty good visuals with lower resolution (fewer ppi).
not sure how the stochastic method could help with computing though. don't the values need to be either ON or OFF?
stochastic screens give the illusion of gray (both on AND off)
mark zuckerberg is a jerk. he will never value my privacy more than his company's ability to rake in money. so fuck facebook, i'm off.
a bitTorrent download is many times more damaging than a stolen copy.
baloney. a dvd stolen from a store represents an item that can no longer be purchased at the register. a file shared online is downloaded by people who never had any intention of buying a copy. filesharers aren't thieves, they're just cheapskates or broke muthas. ask anyone who's using torrents why they don't buy movies and they'll tell you they never had any intention to.
the best way for consumers to react against jerk companies is to ignore them and their products. war sucks, movies promoting war swallows.
his neuromancer album is one of his best. but it's about as dated as the neuromancer novel (which is still one of my favorites)
i wonder if there would be a better way of us DONATING our unused cycles to the project. because 15 hours kind of sucks.
I'm curious to learn what numbers they're using for their analysis, since BP has been cagey and lying about the actual amount of oil flowing from the leak. For their model to predict accurately, they'll have to use better numbers than BP is fudging us with.
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bp-oil-leak-much-bigger-official-estimates
I concur. Why add extra levels of hassle if the .BAT does the job you need? K.I.S.S. is a terrible band, but a great acronym to follow when developing solutions that other people will be using.
however, DOS batch commands aren't very 1990's. they're more 1980's.
shouldn't you be documenting your code in order to remember what you did, why you did it, and how you did it many years hence?
just because something happened in the past doesn't mean that it will happen again. let's take a hard look at the facts and the numbers, and not be frightened by prophecy. statistics tell the story that you want to tell.
Working your life around the assumption that society is, for all intents and purpouses, lawful evil will destroy you in the long run.
D&D ftw
and yet the US ignores international laws on torture and the rights of detainees. soldiers can do whatever the fuck they want, including stripping men naked and threatening them with attack dogs, and suffer no consequence until the photographs get the generals in enough trouble to scapegoat an enlisted man (or woman)
i dont trust soldiers or lawyers or judges or cops or politicians. they're mostly a bunch of cruel, self-righteous liars.
employers can make up whatever standard / rule / excuse for firing somebody. it's usually all political anyway. if she's stupid enough to post about using drugs, she probably needed to learn this little lesson.
what do you expect from the state that gave us George W. Bush, the worst president ever, the guy who led us into 2 unwinnable, unending, UNFUNDED wars and drove the US government into moral and fiscal bankruptcy?
texas sucks.
state-run institutions can be great, but in america, cash and profit are king, so private organizations will always get top billing over state agencies. that's why the top universities are harvard, yale, princeton, stanford.
what kids need to know in terms of science and history (in primary and secondary schools) shouldn't be decided at a local level, but at a national level so that kids in every state are able to compete on an even level when applying to be a student on the university level. a certain amount of math and english is likely easier to assess since the SATs have for years focused on math and english, but even back when i was in high school in the early 1980's, they had watered down the history curriculum so that we didn't even get to the vietnam war. i think that was a plan by the teacher so he didn't have to cover a controversial subject - what horseshit. american history is pretty much the same story to every american, and making the "contract on america" any more important than the farce that newt gingrich drew up gives it far too much credit.