The "National Socialist" name was propagandistic, dumbass. The Nazis needed all the political leverage they could get in the twenties. Hitler figured people would be dumb enough to fall for this, and he was right. In fact people still fall for it even today.
It's like the "Recording Industry Artists of America". Don't believe everything you read.
If you're going to flame somebody, get your own facts straight first. The first A in RIAA is "Association," not "Artists."
I didnt know the nforce was sharing ram. I'm amazed. thx for the tip.
Usually, when i hear integrated sound or/and video, i run away screaming.
Just make sure you take advantage of the nForce's dual-channel memory controller if you use the onboard video...while an Athlon can't use the extra bandwidth of dual PC2100, the nForce's integrated graphics can. I have a couple of nForce systems at work, and they're as snappy as the rest of 'em. (Better than most of our boxen, actually...though given the large number of HP Pavilions with various Intel and VIA integrated-graphics chipsets we have, it doesn't take much to beat them.:-P)
I get a dated deposit slip. But the deposit is not actually posted to my account (balance reflects the deposit, can withdraw against it) for three or four days.
I suspect other people here will probably bash Wells Fargo, but I've had pretty good luck with them. I drop my paychecks into ATMs; the money is almost always available the next day if it's deposited early enough. When I last used direct deposit, the money was available the same day (usually by 7 AM). AFAIK, there's no charge for dealing with the tellers, though I do nearly everything through ATMs and their website. (Last time I deposited a check at the counter was when an ATM ate my card...took eight days for a replacement to arrive in the mail since they had nobody who could just open the ATM and fish my card out. Having no card was painful, as I use it for nearly everything and try to carry no more than $20 in cash.)
Both "news" stories are from an agenda-driven web site and read more like propaganda press releases than real news stores. Hemos was either asleep at the switch or has an axe to grind.
Given the gratuitous Bush-bashing toward the end of the article, the latter is the more likely conclusion.
Other actions taken during the Civil War by the federal government, such as the Alien and Sedition Acts...
IANAH, but IIRC the Alien and Sedition Acts preceded the Civil War by more than 60 years. They were passed into law in 1798, but proved so unpopular that Alexander Hamilton got tossed out of the White House two years later.
What he said! Holy crap! This is the main thing I don't like about slashdot, I can hardly ever tell what the main point of the post is if I have to figure out what link to click first.
The problem with that proposal is that laws concerning all areas of life are put before Congress. We can't expect everyone to be expert in everything.
This argument assumes that Congress is authorized to do most of what it's doing. A more strict interpretation of the Constitution would likely result in a huge reduction in the size and scope of government. If Congress only dealt with those things it is constitutionally authorized to handle, it wouldn't need a huge number of staffers to deal with it all.
Additionally, limiting the staff limits the Congress to lawyers. Diversity of profession is an important trait of a legislateive body
I don't think it would do that. If anything, I suspect there were proportionally fewer lawyers in Congress at the founding than today. The citizen-legislators we had 200+ years ago tended to come from all walks of life (as opposed to the politicians we have now, who frequently have never put in an honest day's work in their lives).
Part of the problem with oversized government is that it tends to attract people who are attracted to having huge amounts of power over people's lives. Smaller government would tend to attract more ordinary people. If (for instance) Robert "KKK" Byrd is no longer able to funnel billions of dollars' worth of pork into whatever holler he crawled out of, what's the likelihood that he would keep at it?
Score: -1, Troll. As long as you avoid obvious crap (like anything from ECS), you should be OK. At this point, I'm somewhat partial to the MSI K7D Master.
Don't you get it? They've already overclocked it. That's the only way they could get these out... and the only reason why they are so hard to find (it's so overclocked only a very tiny percent of the chips can even handle it).
...and it's probably still slower than a dual Athlon MP rig. I compared a 2.8-GHz P4 rig we recently built at work to the dual 1900+ in my office (both with 512 MB of DDR and 15krpm SCSI hard drives). On a TMPGEnc MPEG-2 encoding job from a Huffyuv-compressed AVI, the dual Athlon ran 41% faster (7:56 for the Athlon vs. 13:21 for the P4). Cost for the two was about the same. Dual Xeons would be faster still, but one 2.6-GHz Xeon costs more than double what you'd pay for a pair of Athlon MP 2200s (so sez Pricewatch). Dual P4s? Forget it...Intel doesn't support it.
Wyman's being represented by Whoman, Howman, Whereman, Whenman and WhatTheFuckman.
Actually, it's probably the firm of Ben Dover and Phil McCavity (say it fast)
Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe seems more likely to have taken up this case...
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Umm. You are getting your parties confused. Jack Valenti isn't exactly popular with Republicans. In fact it has already been suggested in some conservative opinion journals that the complete evisceration of Valenti's legislative agenda would be fitting punishment for Hollywoods underwriting of the Democratic party.
The fact that Valenti used to be part of LBJ's administration (he was Special Assistant to the President) wouldn't exactly help him score points with the incoming Congress, either.
BTW, if you live in Las Vegas, Jack Valenti will be on the morning program on KXNT tomorrow. If I had to guess, he'll be on in the 8-o'clock hour (they usually do movie reviews in that hour on Fridays). The station's call-in line is 702 733-5968 (733-KXNT). There's also a comment line through which you can leave a message that might get played at 8 the next morning...IIRC, that number is 702 889-7436 (it's called the "8 o'Clock Flip-Off"). Could be interesting to see how their answering machine handles a slashdotting...
(If you try calling in, keep in mind that Nevada is in the Pacific time zone.)
Screw line item votes. We need a committe of English teacher reviewing each paragraph in a bill for consistency, coherence, and relevance.
One suggestion I heard this morning on the way into work would be to get rid of the staffers. The comment was made WRT the state legislature, but I see no reason why it couldn't apply to Congress as well. Give them an office, a secretary to take phone calls and handle the mail...and that's all. If legislators had to personally read/write each of the bills they pass into law, they would be far less inclined to pass the huge number of inane/insane laws that we see now. Right now, they mostly let their staffs write the laws while they tour the rubber-chicken circuit, kiss babies at campaign gatherings, and grandstand before C-SPAN before voting "yea" or "nay." It's all too easy for them to pass all manner of laws that weaken everybody's freedoms and bloat the government. Take away this capability and maybe things might get back to what the Founding Fathers intended.
Since this says it interacts with the air, wouldn't the resourceful hacker just setup his environment in a vacuum chamber?
I doubt you'd need to go to that trouble. It's more likely that the disc reacts only with some particular component of the atmosphere (it's most likely that it would react with oxygen, since oxygen likes to react with stuff). Put your computer and the disc in a big box, flush it with nitrogen or carbon dioxide (dry ice would be easiest to handle...drop in a chunk and wait for it to sublimate), open the disc in the oxygen-free environment, and go to town. Since carbon dioxide is heavier than air, you wouldn't even need to close the box...just seal the cracks with tape so it doesn't leak out. You might want to put a cover on it once the disc is loaded up, though, so that air currents in the room don't find their way into the box and contaminate it.
(Hmm...does this mean dry ice will be outlawed by the DMCA as a "circumvention device?")
Your opinion only makes sense if you were born yesterday. For the rest of us, who actually lived in the 1980's, we thought DL was insanely cool.
That's funny...I lived in the '80s, but thought that while Dragon's Lair looked neat, it absolutely and thoroughly sucked as a game. It was an almost certain waste of $1.00 (at a time when most games cost 25 cents) in that I would invariably get "killed" maybe 10-20 seconds after feeding the machine my money.
I have a copy of Compute!'s
Mapping the IBM PC and PCjr. It's kinda stale today, but back in the day it was one of THE references for low-level information on the computer.
Hell, some manufacturers provided that information themselves. As an example, consider Apple and (among other publications) the Apple IIe Technical Reference Manual. It's over 400 pages of spiral-bound goodness...complete schematics for the IIe, source code for the ROMs (except for BASIC...Microsoft no doubt wouldn't let them include the source for that), and info on nearly everything you might want to do with a IIe WRT software or hardware. A fair bit of the info applied to the other 8-bit Apple IIs as well. $24.95, and it was available in most halfway-decent bookstores.
Now I can finally type in the hex code for CrossRoads all over again.
Why type it? If they're providing text, just put it on something your computer can read and read it in. If they're doing scanned images, OCR them...then put it on something your computer can read and read it in.
They seem to be/.'d pretty thoroughly at the moment, or I'd check and see if Nibble is in their collection. If it is, it could potentially save me lots of work (every issue from 1984 to when publication ceased in 1992), as I'm trying to OCR the whole pile of magazines and archive them on CD-ROM (while verifying that the programs are scanned in accurately so they'll run).
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Of course, if I install Windows they'll still complain that I use Mozilla...
It doesn't even get that far. I'm running Mozilla on Win2K, and it doesn't go any further than "One moment please while we check your settings..." Changing the user-agent to match IE doesn't make it work any better, either.
I've been using something called DVDSONTAP for a while now, pay £9.99 a month and rent as many dvds as I like and send them back when I like.
Sounds like Netflix...$20/month for 3 DVDs out at a time, with no due date.
$4.99 AND the "pleasure" of downloading AND having to install their DRM crap? No thanks. I'll stick to regular DVD and of course, leeching from usenet;)
If you were inclined to do so, DVDs are also ridiculously easy to copy.:-)
I just wanted to know, WHY on earth MS would use the directory name 'Program Files' when so often installers and path names, etc. can only work with the 8.3 format and end up calling it 'PROGRA~1'.
Only ancient pre-Win95 installers have that problem. When's the last time you installed a Win16 (or maybe Win32s) app on your computer?
AutoCAD has the GUI for all gui bits, but still has a command line for when it's easier and saner (think typing in desired dimensions instead of trying to fake it with a mouse) to type things in.
PublishIt! (a DTP program for the Apple II and some other platforms, though I used it on the II) had a keyboard shortcut through which you could quickly specify the size and placement of objects. With PostScript output, nobody would've ever guessed that the flyer, newsletter, or whatever came from (say) a IIe. It made creation of multi-column layouts dead simple. It'd be nice if MS Publisher had a similar ability, instead of forcing you to try to get accurate positioning with the mouse. (It does let you use the arrow keys for pixel-at-a-time moving, but that's not as precise as plugging in a measurement accurate to a thousandth of an inch.)
Either way, when my car hits 130mph and I'm feeling kinda scared, I don't think I could handle going much faster than that. Besides, RWD at 200mph? a little lite in the back end would be DAMN scary/dangerous!
All race cars are RWD (AFAIK...and I mean real race cars, not some Civic with a fart pipe, lots of stickers, and a huge-ass spoiler that does it no good), and they get up to similar speeds without problems. Check out this page.
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If you're going to flame somebody, get your own facts straight first. The first A in RIAA is "Association," not "Artists."
Just make sure you take advantage of the nForce's dual-channel memory controller if you use the onboard video...while an Athlon can't use the extra bandwidth of dual PC2100, the nForce's integrated graphics can. I have a couple of nForce systems at work, and they're as snappy as the rest of 'em. (Better than most of our boxen, actually...though given the large number of HP Pavilions with various Intel and VIA integrated-graphics chipsets we have, it doesn't take much to beat them. :-P)
I suspect other people here will probably bash Wells Fargo, but I've had pretty good luck with them. I drop my paychecks into ATMs; the money is almost always available the next day if it's deposited early enough. When I last used direct deposit, the money was available the same day (usually by 7 AM). AFAIK, there's no charge for dealing with the tellers, though I do nearly everything through ATMs and their website. (Last time I deposited a check at the counter was when an ATM ate my card...took eight days for a replacement to arrive in the mail since they had nobody who could just open the ATM and fish my card out. Having no card was painful, as I use it for nearly everything and try to carry no more than $20 in cash.)
Given the gratuitous Bush-bashing toward the end of the article, the latter is the more likely conclusion.
IANAH, but IIRC the Alien and Sedition Acts preceded the Civil War by more than 60 years. They were passed into law in 1798, but proved so unpopular that Alexander Hamilton got tossed out of the White House two years later.
I hope you don't ever read the quickies...
This argument assumes that Congress is authorized to do most of what it's doing. A more strict interpretation of the Constitution would likely result in a huge reduction in the size and scope of government. If Congress only dealt with those things it is constitutionally authorized to handle, it wouldn't need a huge number of staffers to deal with it all.
I don't think it would do that. If anything, I suspect there were proportionally fewer lawyers in Congress at the founding than today. The citizen-legislators we had 200+ years ago tended to come from all walks of life (as opposed to the politicians we have now, who frequently have never put in an honest day's work in their lives).
Part of the problem with oversized government is that it tends to attract people who are attracted to having huge amounts of power over people's lives. Smaller government would tend to attract more ordinary people. If (for instance) Robert "KKK" Byrd is no longer able to funnel billions of dollars' worth of pork into whatever holler he crawled out of, what's the likelihood that he would keep at it?
Score: -1, Troll. As long as you avoid obvious crap (like anything from ECS), you should be OK. At this point, I'm somewhat partial to the MSI K7D Master.
Yes.
Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe seems more likely to have taken up this case...
The fact that Valenti used to be part of LBJ's administration (he was Special Assistant to the President) wouldn't exactly help him score points with the incoming Congress, either.
BTW, if you live in Las Vegas, Jack Valenti will be on the morning program on KXNT tomorrow. If I had to guess, he'll be on in the 8-o'clock hour (they usually do movie reviews in that hour on Fridays). The station's call-in line is 702 733-5968 (733-KXNT). There's also a comment line through which you can leave a message that might get played at 8 the next morning...IIRC, that number is 702 889-7436 (it's called the "8 o'Clock Flip-Off"). Could be interesting to see how their answering machine handles a slashdotting...
(If you try calling in, keep in mind that Nevada is in the Pacific time zone.)
One suggestion I heard this morning on the way into work would be to get rid of the staffers. The comment was made WRT the state legislature, but I see no reason why it couldn't apply to Congress as well. Give them an office, a secretary to take phone calls and handle the mail...and that's all. If legislators had to personally read/write each of the bills they pass into law, they would be far less inclined to pass the huge number of inane/insane laws that we see now. Right now, they mostly let their staffs write the laws while they tour the rubber-chicken circuit, kiss babies at campaign gatherings, and grandstand before C-SPAN before voting "yea" or "nay." It's all too easy for them to pass all manner of laws that weaken everybody's freedoms and bloat the government. Take away this capability and maybe things might get back to what the Founding Fathers intended.
I doubt you'd need to go to that trouble. It's more likely that the disc reacts only with some particular component of the atmosphere (it's most likely that it would react with oxygen, since oxygen likes to react with stuff). Put your computer and the disc in a big box, flush it with nitrogen or carbon dioxide (dry ice would be easiest to handle...drop in a chunk and wait for it to sublimate), open the disc in the oxygen-free environment, and go to town. Since carbon dioxide is heavier than air, you wouldn't even need to close the box...just seal the cracks with tape so it doesn't leak out. You might want to put a cover on it once the disc is loaded up, though, so that air currents in the room don't find their way into the box and contaminate it.
(Hmm...does this mean dry ice will be outlawed by the DMCA as a "circumvention device?")
That's funny...I lived in the '80s, but thought that while Dragon's Lair looked neat, it absolutely and thoroughly sucked as a game. It was an almost certain waste of $1.00 (at a time when most games cost 25 cents) in that I would invariably get "killed" maybe 10-20 seconds after feeding the machine my money.
Didn't they have something like this on the Man Show once?
Hell, some manufacturers provided that information themselves. As an example, consider Apple and (among other publications) the Apple IIe Technical Reference Manual. It's over 400 pages of spiral-bound goodness...complete schematics for the IIe, source code for the ROMs (except for BASIC...Microsoft no doubt wouldn't let them include the source for that), and info on nearly everything you might want to do with a IIe WRT software or hardware. A fair bit of the info applied to the other 8-bit Apple IIs as well. $24.95, and it was available in most halfway-decent bookstores.
Why type it? If they're providing text, just put it on something your computer can read and read it in. If they're doing scanned images, OCR them...then put it on something your computer can read and read it in.
They seem to be /.'d pretty thoroughly at the moment, or I'd check and see if Nibble is in their collection. If it is, it could potentially save me lots of work (every issue from 1984 to when publication ceased in 1992), as I'm trying to OCR the whole pile of magazines and archive them on CD-ROM (while verifying that the programs are scanned in accurately so they'll run).
It doesn't even get that far. I'm running Mozilla on Win2K, and it doesn't go any further than "One moment please while we check your settings..." Changing the user-agent to match IE doesn't make it work any better, either.
Oh, I don't know...enable "1337 h4x0rz" to "0wn j00," perhaps?
Sounds like Netflix...$20/month for 3 DVDs out at a time, with no due date.
If you were inclined to do so, DVDs are also ridiculously easy to copy. :-)
Mead, perhaps?
Only ancient pre-Win95 installers have that problem. When's the last time you installed a Win16 (or maybe Win32s) app on your computer?
PublishIt! (a DTP program for the Apple II and some other platforms, though I used it on the II) had a keyboard shortcut through which you could quickly specify the size and placement of objects. With PostScript output, nobody would've ever guessed that the flyer, newsletter, or whatever came from (say) a IIe. It made creation of multi-column layouts dead simple. It'd be nice if MS Publisher had a similar ability, instead of forcing you to try to get accurate positioning with the mouse. (It does let you use the arrow keys for pixel-at-a-time moving, but that's not as precise as plugging in a measurement accurate to a thousandth of an inch.)
All race cars are RWD (AFAIK...and I mean real race cars, not some Civic with a fart pipe, lots of stickers, and a huge-ass spoiler that does it no good), and they get up to similar speeds without problems. Check out this page.