It doesn't just live in the blood; it lives throughout the body, in any cell, just like any other virus. It's easily transmissible by blood, but it'd also be easily transmissible through, say, liver chunks.
Yeah, it'd be nice if BSPlayer were the only media-playing app I needed on the Windows box. It's lightweight, fast, one-key shortcuts for the important stuff...
And most importantly, it played DivX just fine on my friend's 450MHz K6-2. With subtitles. WMP choked and died. I think that's reason enough not to use their bloatware...
But really, there's no reason for the format to be tied to the player. BSPlayer is enough for me...
Not exactly. It had better have a configurable compression ratio. Ideally, you'd be able to take a clip, tell it "Make it 200MB" and come back in an hour (or three) to find a high-quality encode waiting for you.
The problem is really the quality that comes out of the encoding process. The real comparison done nowadays is to encode the same movie at the same bitrate with two different codecs and compare the quality. Of course, this is a subjective and nontrivial process...
The issue of embriotic destruction is a religious one and should not be federally precluded.
You know, the Christians also prohibit lying and murdering. (Yes, they're hypocrites, but we're talking about their ideals here.) That doesn't make laws against murder a religious issue.
I agree with the conclusion that the government has no place prohibiting stem cell research, but if the best reason you can think of is "The Christians are against it, thus we must allow it!", then you really need to check your premises.
"... because of a perceived argument between their imaginary friends or possession of a clump of wet dirt with little green things growing out of it."
While the imaginary friends part is quite ridiculous, I should point out that the "clump of wet dirt" grows life-sustaining hydrocarbons, which people can live on. Land is a vital thing for a people's survival.
Err... the bubonic plague had a short incubation period and killed by the same means that the flu does---it's a pulmonary disease. It was also extremely easily transmittable, unlike HIV.
Why do you say that HIV and the bubonic plague are even vaguely related? Was the bubonic plague even caused by a retrovirus?
Shell Oil has been supporting a rather brutal military regime in Nigeria in order to extract oil. I suppose this involves killing babies.
Oh, and the original poster is an idiot for not providing some sort of reference. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... didn't anyone tell him that?
At the University of Connecticut, the general-eduation requirements are the same for all students studying for a BS (for a BA, there are fewer required courses). These include foreign languages, physics (or biology), philosophy, chemistry, mathematics, non-western cultures, history and social science.
CSE students also have to take multivariable calculus, differential equations and linear algebra (the same classes the math majors take) as well as the civil engineering "statics" class and the electrical engineering "signals and systems" class (which weeds out third-year students like you wouldn't believe). As for learning actual math, the CS curriculum is one course short of including a math minor. (Most students take the extra one, since it's a prerequisite for another CS course.)
Any "breadth"-type requirement that a humanities major would have to take, we also take. We just don't have the free space in our schedules to take fluffy classes. (I get something like five electives over the course of four years.)
I'm not sure where you're getting this idea of well-rounded humanities students and tech-only engineering students.
Thank you! It's absolutely scandalous that someone can greaduate from sixteen years of education and not know calculus. The general education requirements at my school (University of Connecticut) at being revamped this year, but it's absolutely certain that students will be able to graduate with a minimum of math and science, because those courses weed out too many people.
For some reason, it's considered acceptable to be mathematically illiterate, but not to be ignorant of history or literature. Bollocks!
Err... when the government (through NASA) gives away what there was previously a market for (that is, launches), they destroy that market. Technically, that's not a monopoly, but that's the same kind of thing a monopoly does. Innovation is stifled because there's no point in selling what Uncle Sam gives away.
See, this is why it's such a bloody good thing that Apple moved over to Open Source. Instead of being a bunch of weirdos with proprietary everything, the fortunes of a large constituency are now tied in with the fortunes of free software. Unlike the masses of clueless Windows users, the masses of clueless Mac users will be affected, will be restricted.
*poof*, we have a lobby! Declan what's-his-face was wrong, there are plenty of people directly affected by this who aren't coders, aren't geeks.
Someone wrote about creating a library of canonical "this is why the DMCA-etc is bad" examples, so that Joe Average can understand the issue. That's exactly what this columnist is doing---reaching out to the average Mac user and explaining that usage restrictions are evil.
What exactly does CTQ do? Google reveals pretty much nothing about it, other than involvement with SCSI on some level. What does it do, and what is it useful for?
I dunno, I'd rather have my president fucking (or, "technically", not fucking) his intern, his daughter, his cat, whatever, than raising my taxes and sending me to war in Iraq. (Remember, some of us are of age for the draft here.)
Did you ever see the "Miracle of Life" special on PBS? Remember when the blastocyst (original ball of cells) folds in at both ends? The outside becomes the skin, the folded-in parts become the gut, and what's in the middle becomes the organs.
Your digestive tract is lined with epithelial cells; it's very much like skin. It is, in a sense, actually on the outside of your body---that is, there's a path through your body where the munchies pass through, like a tube going from mouth to anus, that nutrients are absorbed through the walls of. This means that very nasty stuff can be stored in your digestive tract: hydrochloric acid in your stomach, bacteria in your intestines.
If your intestines get punctured, the bacteria that live in there, which are good when they're in your intestine, wreak havoc on your system. This kind of infection is called peritonitis (you might have heard of it) and it's life-threatening, above and beyond the "hey, I have organ damage!" level.
Of course, some of them are hostile because the patients that question their judgment are frequently fidiots.
Bob: Doctor, I've seen a lot of ads for this "Proboscum" pill, and I think I need to start taking it. It'll make my life better. Doctor: Bob, "Proboscum" is for pregnant women.
(That's paraphrased from a Non Sequitur strip, I think.) Especially in poor areas, doctors see a lot of people who are falling apart because they don't take care of themselves. It's quite likely that, while these people may have opinions, they're more likely to be the cause of than the solution for the problem.
This isn't to say that a good doctor isn't open to suggestions. A good doctor, if they're not sure what's going on, will send the patient to get diagnosed by the right person. This doesn't always happen, unfortunately.
Oh, and where on IRC are the damned distro chans? #imp-iso seems to be closed now, and I didn't really know any others. (Aside from the #*-central channels on DalNet.)
Where can I get Xena episodes? They're for my girlfriend, honest...
Don't they know that most people still only rent movies. Only a small minority actually buy them.
Really? This is pretty interesting... can you back that up with something? Most of the people I know don't own many movies, but they have some. I remember when my folks used to rent movies and dub them off onto tapes in SLP mode, or whichever the eight-hour one was...
I have a friend who still lives at home. She's college-age, and not exactly rolling in cash. She owns over a hundred DVDs. How she affords this, I can't begin to fathom, but she's the kind of customer the MPAA wants.
Oh, and if you think online copies of movies are bad quality, go find that 2-CD DivX LOTR that's floating around everywhere. Much better than VHS, and it even approaches DVD quality.
Losses to theft are actually called "shrinkage", as in, the inventory shrinks. I'm not sure if it refers simply to employees stealing, but ask anyone in retail---it's the preferred euphemism for theft.
Which Gnutella client are you using? I was staying at a university for a week, and so I had about 300k/s of unused bandwidth that I could just play around with, using Gnucleus (1.8.4.0, I think.)
I scored some pretty good stuff... most of Gowenna's encodes of the Black Adder series, as well as lots of Simpsons episodes, and Ralph Bakshi's animated version of LOTR, which I hadn't been able to find anywhere else.
What were you looking for that you couldn't find there?
It's called "probable cause". If a cop stops you for a traffic violation and sees a fat sack labeled "COCAINE" in your back seat, he has probable cause to search your car. This has been stretched quite far, for instance, having a locked gate on one's yard has been construed as probable cause for police to go in and look for marijuana plants. ('Cause if you weren't hiding something, why would you lock your gate?)
The MPAA doesn't forward information to the police because they wouldn't have a leg to stand on. They send form letters and threaten legal action, but if they clogged up the court system enough (across how many jurisdictions? Quite an expensive nightmare for them) with frivolous accusations, the courts wouldn't look so fondly on this sort of thing.
There really is something incredibly frightening about this mafia-like body's accusations having some of the force of law.
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It doesn't just live in the blood; it lives throughout the body, in any cell, just like any other virus. It's easily transmissible by blood, but it'd also be easily transmissible through, say, liver chunks.
--grendel drago
When you download the album, Best Buy still has it.
When you steal from the bell-ringer, he doesn't still have his money.
Understand now?
--grendel drago
Yeah, it'd be nice if BSPlayer were the only media-playing app I needed on the Windows box. It's lightweight, fast, one-key shortcuts for the important stuff...
And most importantly, it played DivX just fine on my friend's 450MHz K6-2. With subtitles. WMP choked and died. I think that's reason enough not to use their bloatware...
But really, there's no reason for the format to be tied to the player. BSPlayer is enough for me...
--grendel drago
Not exactly. It had better have a configurable compression ratio. Ideally, you'd be able to take a clip, tell it "Make it 200MB" and come back in an hour (or three) to find a high-quality encode waiting for you.
The problem is really the quality that comes out of the encoding process. The real comparison done nowadays is to encode the same movie at the same bitrate with two different codecs and compare the quality. Of course, this is a subjective and nontrivial process...
--grendel drago
Really? Do you mean DivX 3.11a with SBC? Or DivX 4 or 5? Maybe the new XviD codec, which is replacing (various versions of) DivX in the pirate scene.
Seriously. "DivX 0wnz". Put a little thought into what you write---unlike MP3, "DivX" comprises a wide variety of codecs and licensing schemes.
--grendel drago
The issue of embriotic destruction is a religious one and should not be federally precluded.
You know, the Christians also prohibit lying and murdering. (Yes, they're hypocrites, but we're talking about their ideals here.) That doesn't make laws against murder a religious issue.
I agree with the conclusion that the government has no place prohibiting stem cell research, but if the best reason you can think of is "The Christians are against it, thus we must allow it!", then you really need to check your premises.
--grendel drago
"... because of a perceived argument between their imaginary friends or possession of a clump of wet dirt with little green things growing out of it."
While the imaginary friends part is quite ridiculous, I should point out that the "clump of wet dirt" grows life-sustaining hydrocarbons, which people can live on. Land is a vital thing for a people's survival.
--grendel drago
Err... the bubonic plague had a short incubation period and killed by the same means that the flu does---it's a pulmonary disease. It was also extremely easily transmittable, unlike HIV.
Why do you say that HIV and the bubonic plague are even vaguely related? Was the bubonic plague even caused by a retrovirus?
--grendel drago
I thought they were "rads" and "rems". Who says "sunshine units", and what do they represent?
--grendel drago
Shell Oil has been supporting a rather brutal military regime in Nigeria in order to extract oil. I suppose this involves killing babies.
Oh, and the original poster is an idiot for not providing some sort of reference. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... didn't anyone tell him that?
--grendel drago
At the University of Connecticut, the general-eduation requirements are the same for all students studying for a BS (for a BA, there are fewer required courses). These include foreign languages, physics (or biology), philosophy, chemistry, mathematics, non-western cultures, history and social science.
CSE students also have to take multivariable calculus, differential equations and linear algebra (the same classes the math majors take) as well as the civil engineering "statics" class and the electrical engineering "signals and systems" class (which weeds out third-year students like you wouldn't believe). As for learning actual math, the CS curriculum is one course short of including a math minor. (Most students take the extra one, since it's a prerequisite for another CS course.)
Any "breadth"-type requirement that a humanities major would have to take, we also take. We just don't have the free space in our schedules to take fluffy classes. (I get something like five electives over the course of four years.)
I'm not sure where you're getting this idea of well-rounded humanities students and tech-only engineering students.
--grendel drago
Thank you! It's absolutely scandalous that someone can greaduate from sixteen years of education and not know calculus. The general education requirements at my school (University of Connecticut) at being revamped this year, but it's absolutely certain that students will be able to graduate with a minimum of math and science, because those courses weed out too many people.
For some reason, it's considered acceptable to be mathematically illiterate, but not to be ignorant of history or literature. Bollocks!
--grendel drago
Err... when the government (through NASA) gives away what there was previously a market for (that is, launches), they destroy that market. Technically, that's not a monopoly, but that's the same kind of thing a monopoly does. Innovation is stifled because there's no point in selling what Uncle Sam gives away.
That was really informative. Thanks!
See, this is why it's such a bloody good thing that Apple moved over to Open Source. Instead of being a bunch of weirdos with proprietary everything, the fortunes of a large constituency are now tied in with the fortunes of free software. Unlike the masses of clueless Windows users, the masses of clueless Mac users will be affected, will be restricted.
*poof*, we have a lobby! Declan what's-his-face was wrong, there are plenty of people directly affected by this who aren't coders, aren't geeks.
Someone wrote about creating a library of canonical "this is why the DMCA-etc is bad" examples, so that Joe Average can understand the issue. That's exactly what this columnist is doing---reaching out to the average Mac user and explaining that usage restrictions are evil.
Mmm, I've got a warm fuzzy now.
--grendel drago
What exactly does CTQ do? Google reveals pretty much nothing about it, other than involvement with SCSI on some level. What does it do, and what is it useful for?
I dunno, I'd rather have my president fucking (or, "technically", not fucking) his intern, his daughter, his cat, whatever, than raising my taxes and sending me to war in Iraq. (Remember, some of us are of age for the draft here.)
Nope.
Did you ever see the "Miracle of Life" special on PBS? Remember when the blastocyst (original ball of cells) folds in at both ends? The outside becomes the skin, the folded-in parts become the gut, and what's in the middle becomes the organs.
Your digestive tract is lined with epithelial cells; it's very much like skin. It is, in a sense, actually on the outside of your body---that is, there's a path through your body where the munchies pass through, like a tube going from mouth to anus, that nutrients are absorbed through the walls of. This means that very nasty stuff can be stored in your digestive tract: hydrochloric acid in your stomach, bacteria in your intestines.
If your intestines get punctured, the bacteria that live in there, which are good when they're in your intestine, wreak havoc on your system. This kind of infection is called peritonitis (you might have heard of it) and it's life-threatening, above and beyond the "hey, I have organ damage!" level.
Hope this has been enlightening.
--grendel drago
Of course, some of them are hostile because the patients that question their judgment are frequently fidiots.
Bob: Doctor, I've seen a lot of ads for this "Proboscum" pill, and I think I need to start taking it. It'll make my life better.
Doctor: Bob, "Proboscum" is for pregnant women.
(That's paraphrased from a Non Sequitur strip, I think.) Especially in poor areas, doctors see a lot of people who are falling apart because they don't take care of themselves. It's quite likely that, while these people may have opinions, they're more likely to be the cause of than the solution for the problem.
This isn't to say that a good doctor isn't open to suggestions. A good doctor, if they're not sure what's going on, will send the patient to get diagnosed by the right person. This doesn't always happen, unfortunately.
--grendel drago
Oh, and where on IRC are the damned distro chans? #imp-iso seems to be closed now, and I didn't really know any others. (Aside from the #*-central channels on DalNet.)
Where can I get Xena episodes? They're for my girlfriend, honest...
--grendel drago
Don't they know that most people still only rent movies. Only a small minority actually buy them.
Really? This is pretty interesting... can you back that up with something? Most of the people I know don't own many movies, but they have some. I remember when my folks used to rent movies and dub them off onto tapes in SLP mode, or whichever the eight-hour one was...
I have a friend who still lives at home. She's college-age, and not exactly rolling in cash. She owns over a hundred DVDs. How she affords this, I can't begin to fathom, but she's the kind of customer the MPAA wants.
Oh, and if you think online copies of movies are bad quality, go find that 2-CD DivX LOTR that's floating around everywhere. Much better than VHS, and it even approaches DVD quality.
--grendel drago
Losses to theft are actually called "shrinkage", as in, the inventory shrinks. I'm not sure if it refers simply to employees stealing, but ask anyone in retail---it's the preferred euphemism for theft.
--grendel drago
Which Gnutella client are you using? I was staying at a university for a week, and so I had about 300k/s of unused bandwidth that I could just play around with, using Gnucleus (1.8.4.0, I think.)
I scored some pretty good stuff... most of Gowenna's encodes of the Black Adder series, as well as lots of Simpsons episodes, and Ralph Bakshi's animated version of LOTR, which I hadn't been able to find anywhere else.
What were you looking for that you couldn't find there?
--grendel drago
It's called "probable cause". If a cop stops you for a traffic violation and sees a fat sack labeled "COCAINE" in your back seat, he has probable cause to search your car. This has been stretched quite far, for instance, having a locked gate on one's yard has been construed as probable cause for police to go in and look for marijuana plants. ('Cause if you weren't hiding something, why would you lock your gate?)
--grendel drago
The MPAA doesn't forward information to the police because they wouldn't have a leg to stand on. They send form letters and threaten legal action, but if they clogged up the court system enough (across how many jurisdictions? Quite an expensive nightmare for them) with frivolous accusations, the courts wouldn't look so fondly on this sort of thing.
There really is something incredibly frightening about this mafia-like body's accusations having some of the force of law.
--grendel drago