Full alpha...here's one script that implements it, and you use it something like this (assuming that you've loaded the script somewhere further up in your page):
Those "victims" (and the thugs detained at Gitmo) don't open-carry their weapons and they don't so much as acknowledge the laws of war.
You exhibit a fundamental lack of understanding of the basics of justice.
Treating terrorism as a matter for the criminal-justice system is suicidal. We tried doing that prior to 9/11, and look what it got us.
You assume that the individuals detained are already known guilty. In fact, these are speculative detentions.
Hmm...let's see, they were captured after firing at our troops in a frickin' combat zone. How much more of a clue do you need? Must they come around and slice your head off with a rusty knife before you'll admit to the threat that these subhuman monsters present to the world?
You are, basically, un-American.
Coming from the likes of you, that's really rich. Aren't you people the types who get your panties all in a bunch whenever someone so much as hints at questioning your patriotism and/or Americanism, yet you're almost always the first to turn around and hurl unfounded accusations at anyone who disagrees with you? To borrow a few words from our esteemed vice-president, go fuck yourself, you goddamned terrorist-lover.
After the 80's, it became increasingly more difficult for the electronics enthusiast to build hardware of moderate complexity - soldering SMT components to a board is _NOT_ feasible for the average hobbyist.
Soldering SMTs isn't that difficult...in some ways, it's actually a little bit faster, as you don't have to bend & trim component leads, keep flipping the board over, etc. All you need is a really fine-tipped iron (something like this), some flux, some fine solder, some tweezers, and a somewhat steady hand. A good bit of the time, you don't even really need to add solder...flux the pads, place the part, and hold it down with the tweezers while you touch the iron tip to a couple of leads. Once it's tacked down, you can start hitting each lead one-by-one for a couple seconds each or so to secure it to the board. Between the pad and the component lead, there's often enough solder to hold the component securely without adding more. Use a spray defluxer to clean up the board and you're done.
However, it's begining to appear that many of the victims of Abu Gahrab (sp?) are in fact "Inhabitants of Occupied Territory"
Those "victims" (and the thugs detained at Gitmo) don't open-carry their weapons and they don't so much as acknowledge the laws of war. That's why they don't qualify as POWs, and that's why the Geneva Conventions don't apply.
On a side note I think it'd be really nifty if someone put the original pentium 1 design into the latest technology generation just to see how fast it could be clocked.
There are enough architectural enhancements in later processors that even if you got a Pentium core into the 3-5 GHz range, even a Celeron would probably walk all over it. It'd be like cranking a 6502 up to 10 GHz...it could be neat for bragging purposes, but it wouldn't give you all of the performance boost you'd expect.
It is a societal obligation -- as in something that you are morally obligated to do as a member of society.
Perhaps, but how does a moral obligation translate into a legal requirement? Aren't you people always whining that we shouldn't "force our morality" on you? It seems you have no problem forcing your morality on others.
Could you point out what part of the Constitution authorizes the government to take money from one group of people (by force if necessary) and give it to another group of people?
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;..."
Wrong. You don't seriously expect us to believe that when the Founding Fathers wrote that part of the Constitution, that they had welfare queens living off of the public's forced generosity in mind, do you?
I don't have a choice as to whether my money buys a new bomber for the Pentagon, do I? If you think that solely voluntary donation is such a good system, why not run all aspects of government like that? Why not have the FBI rely on donations? How about letting people decide whether to donate to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration? What about letting people decide whether they would rather spend their money supporting the CIA, funding the Department of Agriculture, or buying themselves a new Lexus?
With the exception of defense, none of those functions are authorized by the Constitution. You might be able to read a justification for the CIA into "providing for the common defense" (the military needs good intel if it's to be effective), but the "general welfare" clause and the commerce clause have for decades been abused to bloat the government beyond all reasonable limits.
I don't want you to be able to choose to help no one but yourself.
WTFSoF is it to you what anybody does with his money? When you start earning it, you can decide what to do with it. Until then, get bent.
Actually, you still have to compile a kernel for a stage3. You don't have to *configure* it, because you can opt to use genkernel. You still have to compile it either way.
...and compiling the kernel takes what on modern hardware? 5 minutes, maybe? It's something that I always did even with Slackware, SuSE, etc., so it's nothing new to me. I've had Win2K boxes take longer to boot into safe mode than that.
Then pick a cause or two and donate your time and money. Please don't take away my choice to do so.
You do have that choice. You can donate time and money to any cause that you want. You just can't completely opt out of your societal obligation to help the needy.
Um...what "obligation" is that, exactly? Could you point out what part of the Constitution authorizes the government to take money from one group of people (by force if necessary) and give it to another group of people? The OP is correct...perhaps instead of being generous with other people's money, you might try being generous with your own money (or time) instead.
MoveOn is a blog- just like Slashdot. Are you saying that every single post has to be moderated before it is posted?
Maybe they should consider doing so, if they want to be known as more than just a bunch of left-wing kooks.
And as for hate never winning an election, you're apparently far too young to remember what Bush Sr. did to Michael Dukakis.
What, exactly, did Bush 41 do in the '88 election that constitutes hatemongering? I hope you don't plan on dredging up Willie Horton...pointing out your opponent's unwillingness to deal with the criminal element does not constitute hate. (Riding around in a tank with that stupid grin of his didn't exactly help John Kerry's ex-boss, either.)
Better examples of hatemongering in politics would be the Missouri Democrats in 1998 with their radio ad where they said (paraphrasing a bit) "when you elect Republicans, you let another black church burn," or the NAACP's 2000 anti-Bush hit piece with the chains dangling behind a pickup truck. You could even mention Lyndon Johnson's 1964 "Daisy" ad against Barry Goldwater, but that really would be before my time.:-)
[Whoopi] was 'fired' for her political views. not cool.
When you consider that the guy who runs Slim-Fast is a left-winger who's given lots of money to the Democrats and that it was his decision to 86 Whoopi, what are the odds that the decision was political? You don't piss off your customers if you want to stay in business.
You can have whatever opinion you want, but it's wise to exercise discretion in where and how you voice it. Free speech is not an absolute right, regardless of what the pinheads at the ACLU would have you believe. If you say something that offends people, you have no right to assume that those people will continue to back you up. Deal with it.
Neither did MoveOn.org. Two posters on MoveOn.org posted those ads. Two ads out of thousands. A couple Republican operatives perusing the site ran into one of them, made a stink, and then found the other. MoveOn.org, far from endorsing them, removed them as offensive.
If they were doing their job, those ads would never have been posted in the first place. Quit making excuses for the inexcusable. Hate never won an election, but the haters at moveon.org don't seem to have learned that lesson...yet.
Is it just the "rules" that prevent HD component recording? Right now there's a huge variety of devices that can record from composite or s-video (TiVo, VCRs, DVD recorders, video capture cards on your computer, etc). I just want to dump HD component video into a recorder the same way I dump it into my TV.
It's not that so much as that there's not a sufficiently low-cost MP@HL MPEG-2 encoder chip out there that can be embedded in a recorder. Existing HD recorders rely on having the original digital stream available and recording that, instead of reencoding an already-decoded signal (which introduces more loss anyway).
Seeing as how the games seem to be in German, why is the game machine named (and prominently so) in English?
Ordinarily, I'd chalk it up to the way German borrows fairly heavily from English (have a look here if you don't believe me). I suspect the East Germans didn't do nearly as much borrowing from English as the West did, though...do you suppose they ended up appropriating Russian words?
P.S. Please tell me where I can buy new albums for under ten dollars. I looked online at that ASDA store, but last I heard, you needed more dollars to equal a pound. Is Apple overcharging in Britain?
The blurb on Apple's website said they're charging 79p, which is currently about $1.47. How that compares to the price of a CD over there, though, I couldn't say (haven't lived there since '86).
$1 is a rip off if the tune is from Apple. Unless you want proprietary hardware (the overpriced iPod) you can't play the tune on anything but your computer.
I have a Palm Tungsten T that disagrees with you...quit spreading FUD.
A cup of coffee lasts you about fifteen minutes (then it gets cold, or it gets consumed.)
That's why you use a coffee warmer (something like this, or maybe even this, but I'm not sure if that last one is a real product or a joke) to keep it from going cold. I brew four cups in the morning and take a couple or three hours to go through it instead of trying to chug it.
The reason the motherboard started smoldering? The CPU maxed when he tried to load one of that site's webpages. It's impossible to pick out any actual content on that page amongst all the adverts, links, and folderol.
IE does not support the #1 most useful aspect of PNG, namely, alpha transparency. Without alpha transparency, you may as well use JPEG or GIF in most circumstances.
FWIW, there's a hack to display transparent PNGs in IE without breaking things for other browsers. Try this script:
I inserted a few extra spaces so that/. would hopefully not mangle it into non-working form, but if it doesn't work, you can get a working copy of the script here.
Where you'd normally put an IMG element to load a PNG, use something like this instead:
<span id="foo">
<img src="graphics/foo.png" width=320 height=240 alt="This is the Foo image" title="This is the Foo image">
</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
DisplayPNG("foo","graphics/foo.png",320,240,"This is the Foo image");
</script>
The first parameter of the DisplayPNG script is the ID of the span element that precedes it; this displays the PNG if JavaScript is disabled (though it won't be transparent on IE). The second parameter is the path to the file, the third and fourth are the dimensions, and the fifth is some identifying text that'll show up in the image's tooltip.
I'll allow that it would be better if Microsoft had done a proper implementation of PNG in IE, but this gets the job done until that happens (if it ever does).
I've delt with drug dealers that were less pushy then Best Buy employees. Now, I drive the extra 30 minutes to go to Fry's where no one bugs me until I ask a question.
You've gotten someone to actually help you at Fry's? The electronics/consumer crap store, right?
I can't speak for the original poster, but 99% of the time I don't want to be bothered by the sales staff. If I have a question, I'll ask. Otherwise, I'll go in, get what I want, and get out. On the handful of occasions that I've had a question to ask or needed other assistance, I've not had trouble getting it. Maybe Fry's Las Vegas store is better than some of their others...at least compared to some of their other stores, the Vegas store looks better-maintained.
I used to work at Best Buy (1994-1999, about 4 years at #289 and a bit less than 1 year at #122, both in Las Vegas). When I first started there, I thought it was cool that we were aiming to provide more or less the kind of shopping experience I'd prefer. Things stayed that way for maybe the first couple of years, but then there was a push from corporate to get more aggressive with accessories and extended warranties. (You know the deprogramming is complete when you no longer refer to extended warranties as "PSPs" and "PRPs.")
I think I continued picking up the odd gadget or two for about a year after I left, but a bad experience with customer service at one of the local stores has kept me away from Best Buy ever since. (They wouldn't exchange a book I had received as a Christmas present, even though I had purchased the exact same title there a month earlier as a Christmas present for somebody else. I wasn't even seeking a refund; I just wanted to turn it in and get something else. The Barnes & Noble two doors down had no problem taking it on exchange.)
Since then, I've had no use at all for Best Buy. Most of the time, the prices aren't that different going from one store to the next and there's nothing at Best Buy that I can't get elsewhere.
There does sometimes seem to be a drop in fuel economy for the convertibles, but nowhere near 10%.
Convertibles tend to be a fair bit heavier...in addition to the mechanism to raise/lower the top, the body and frame need to be built stiffer than usual to compensate for not having a hard top. I suspect that has more to do with convertibles getting reduced mileage than anything else.
If it makes y'all (the truck haters) feel better, ALL pickups get licensed as commercial vehicles and have higher registration than cars, so we DO pay more.
Mine isn't, and most others aren't out west. What you describe doesn't apply in all states (hell, it probably doesn't apply in most states).
(I am paying more for registration on my '02 S-10 than I'm paying on my '77 Cutlass Supreme Brougham, but that's just because Nevada has an insane pricing system based on your vehicle's original sale price depreciated over something like 10-15 years. The first year's registration for the S-10 was about $350. This year, it was down to about $250. The Cutlass, on the other hand, has never cost me more than about $40 (I bought it from the original owner in late 1999). There is no distinction between cars and light trucks for registration, though.)
When you fill up, the pump will tell you how many gallons you just pumped into your car. When I get back into my car, I reset the tripmeter (the "second" odometer which can be reset) after noting the number of miles I've driven since the last fuel stop. Then it's just a matter of spending the next minute or so trying to do the division as accurately as possible without getting into an accident.
You could just scribble all of that stuff into your Palm instead...jot down the numbers from the pump and the tripmeter in the memo pad, use the calculator to figure your mileage, and copy/paste the result into the memo pad. That way, you have a running history of what you're getting.
FWIW, my '02 Chevy S-10 (extended cab, 4.3L V6 with ZQ8 suspension and the shorter rear axle ratio) has been getting mileage fairly close to the sticker. It's lately been getting 17-18 mpg around town with the A/C blasting. Highway mileage is around 20-21 mpg...a bit lower than specced, but nearly any long trip around here involves going up/down mountains and I keep the cruise control locked at 80 most of the time (and it'll keep doing 80 when lesser vehicles start slowing down). The rear end also uses a bit more fuel, since the engine has to run faster to maintain a given speed. My father and my sister both have '02 Blazers with the same engine and the normal (taller) rear end. They get a little bit better mileage, but my truck is more fun to drive.:-)
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Full alpha...here's one script that implements it, and you use it something like this (assuming that you've loaded the script somewhere further up in your page):
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Treating terrorism as a matter for the criminal-justice system is suicidal. We tried doing that prior to 9/11, and look what it got us.
Hmm...let's see, they were captured after firing at our troops in a frickin' combat zone. How much more of a clue do you need? Must they come around and slice your head off with a rusty knife before you'll admit to the threat that these subhuman monsters present to the world?
Coming from the likes of you, that's really rich. Aren't you people the types who get your panties all in a bunch whenever someone so much as hints at questioning your patriotism and/or Americanism, yet you're almost always the first to turn around and hurl unfounded accusations at anyone who disagrees with you? To borrow a few words from our esteemed vice-president, go fuck yourself, you goddamned terrorist-lover.
If that were true, a modbomber could get you banned. I've been modbombed several times (fscking cowards), but I've never been banned.
Soldering SMTs isn't that difficult...in some ways, it's actually a little bit faster, as you don't have to bend & trim component leads, keep flipping the board over, etc. All you need is a really fine-tipped iron (something like this), some flux, some fine solder, some tweezers, and a somewhat steady hand. A good bit of the time, you don't even really need to add solder...flux the pads, place the part, and hold it down with the tweezers while you touch the iron tip to a couple of leads. Once it's tacked down, you can start hitting each lead one-by-one for a couple seconds each or so to secure it to the board. Between the pad and the component lead, there's often enough solder to hold the component securely without adding more. Use a spray defluxer to clean up the board and you're done.
Those "victims" (and the thugs detained at Gitmo) don't open-carry their weapons and they don't so much as acknowledge the laws of war. That's why they don't qualify as POWs, and that's why the Geneva Conventions don't apply.
There are enough architectural enhancements in later processors that even if you got a Pentium core into the 3-5 GHz range, even a Celeron would probably walk all over it. It'd be like cranking a 6502 up to 10 GHz...it could be neat for bragging purposes, but it wouldn't give you all of the performance boost you'd expect.
Perhaps, but how does a moral obligation translate into a legal requirement? Aren't you people always whining that we shouldn't "force our morality" on you? It seems you have no problem forcing your morality on others.
Wrong. You don't seriously expect us to believe that when the Founding Fathers wrote that part of the Constitution, that they had welfare queens living off of the public's forced generosity in mind, do you?
With the exception of defense, none of those functions are authorized by the Constitution. You might be able to read a justification for the CIA into "providing for the common defense" (the military needs good intel if it's to be effective), but the "general welfare" clause and the commerce clause have for decades been abused to bloat the government beyond all reasonable limits.
WTFSoF is it to you what anybody does with his money? When you start earning it, you can decide what to do with it. Until then, get bent.
Um...what "obligation" is that, exactly? Could you point out what part of the Constitution authorizes the government to take money from one group of people (by force if necessary) and give it to another group of people? The OP is correct...perhaps instead of being generous with other people's money, you might try being generous with your own money (or time) instead.
Maybe they should consider doing so, if they want to be known as more than just a bunch of left-wing kooks.
What, exactly, did Bush 41 do in the '88 election that constitutes hatemongering? I hope you don't plan on dredging up Willie Horton...pointing out your opponent's unwillingness to deal with the criminal element does not constitute hate. (Riding around in a tank with that stupid grin of his didn't exactly help John Kerry's ex-boss, either.)
Better examples of hatemongering in politics would be the Missouri Democrats in 1998 with their radio ad where they said (paraphrasing a bit) "when you elect Republicans, you let another black church burn," or the NAACP's 2000 anti-Bush hit piece with the chains dangling behind a pickup truck. You could even mention Lyndon Johnson's 1964 "Daisy" ad against Barry Goldwater, but that really would be before my time. :-)
When you consider that the guy who runs Slim-Fast is a left-winger who's given lots of money to the Democrats and that it was his decision to 86 Whoopi, what are the odds that the decision was political? You don't piss off your customers if you want to stay in business.
You can have whatever opinion you want, but it's wise to exercise discretion in where and how you voice it. Free speech is not an absolute right, regardless of what the pinheads at the ACLU would have you believe. If you say something that offends people, you have no right to assume that those people will continue to back you up. Deal with it.
If they were doing their job, those ads would never have been posted in the first place. Quit making excuses for the inexcusable. Hate never won an election, but the haters at moveon.org don't seem to have learned that lesson...yet.
It's not that so much as that there's not a sufficiently low-cost MP@HL MPEG-2 encoder chip out there that can be embedded in a recorder. Existing HD recorders rely on having the original digital stream available and recording that, instead of reencoding an already-decoded signal (which introduces more loss anyway).
Ordinarily, I'd chalk it up to the way German borrows fairly heavily from English (have a look here if you don't believe me). I suspect the East Germans didn't do nearly as much borrowing from English as the West did, though...do you suppose they ended up appropriating Russian words?
The blurb on Apple's website said they're charging 79p, which is currently about $1.47. How that compares to the price of a CD over there, though, I couldn't say (haven't lived there since '86).
I have a Palm Tungsten T that disagrees with you...quit spreading FUD.
That's why you use a coffee warmer (something like this, or maybe even this, but I'm not sure if that last one is a real product or a joke) to keep it from going cold. I brew four cups in the morning and take a couple or three hours to go through it instead of trying to chug it.
The ad-blocking lizard is your friend.
FWIW, there's a hack to display transparent PNGs in IE without breaking things for other browsers. Try this script:
I inserted a few extra spaces so that /. would hopefully not mangle it into non-working form, but if it doesn't work, you can get a working copy of the script here.
Where you'd normally put an IMG element to load a PNG, use something like this instead:
<span id="foo">
<img src="graphics/foo.png" width=320 height=240 alt="This is the Foo image" title="This is the Foo image">
</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
DisplayPNG("foo","graphics/foo.png",320,240,"This is the Foo image");
</script>
The first parameter of the DisplayPNG script is the ID of the span element that precedes it; this displays the PNG if JavaScript is disabled (though it won't be transparent on IE). The second parameter is the path to the file, the third and fourth are the dimensions, and the fifth is some identifying text that'll show up in the image's tooltip.
I'll allow that it would be better if Microsoft had done a proper implementation of PNG in IE, but this gets the job done until that happens (if it ever does).
I can't speak for the original poster, but 99% of the time I don't want to be bothered by the sales staff. If I have a question, I'll ask. Otherwise, I'll go in, get what I want, and get out. On the handful of occasions that I've had a question to ask or needed other assistance, I've not had trouble getting it. Maybe Fry's Las Vegas store is better than some of their others...at least compared to some of their other stores, the Vegas store looks better-maintained.
I used to work at Best Buy (1994-1999, about 4 years at #289 and a bit less than 1 year at #122, both in Las Vegas). When I first started there, I thought it was cool that we were aiming to provide more or less the kind of shopping experience I'd prefer. Things stayed that way for maybe the first couple of years, but then there was a push from corporate to get more aggressive with accessories and extended warranties. (You know the deprogramming is complete when you no longer refer to extended warranties as "PSPs" and "PRPs.")
I think I continued picking up the odd gadget or two for about a year after I left, but a bad experience with customer service at one of the local stores has kept me away from Best Buy ever since. (They wouldn't exchange a book I had received as a Christmas present, even though I had purchased the exact same title there a month earlier as a Christmas present for somebody else. I wasn't even seeking a refund; I just wanted to turn it in and get something else. The Barnes & Noble two doors down had no problem taking it on exchange.)
Since then, I've had no use at all for Best Buy. Most of the time, the prices aren't that different going from one store to the next and there's nothing at Best Buy that I can't get elsewhere.
Convertibles tend to be a fair bit heavier...in addition to the mechanism to raise/lower the top, the body and frame need to be built stiffer than usual to compensate for not having a hard top. I suspect that has more to do with convertibles getting reduced mileage than anything else.
Mine isn't, and most others aren't out west. What you describe doesn't apply in all states (hell, it probably doesn't apply in most states).
(I am paying more for registration on my '02 S-10 than I'm paying on my '77 Cutlass Supreme Brougham, but that's just because Nevada has an insane pricing system based on your vehicle's original sale price depreciated over something like 10-15 years. The first year's registration for the S-10 was about $350. This year, it was down to about $250. The Cutlass, on the other hand, has never cost me more than about $40 (I bought it from the original owner in late 1999). There is no distinction between cars and light trucks for registration, though.)
You could just scribble all of that stuff into your Palm instead...jot down the numbers from the pump and the tripmeter in the memo pad, use the calculator to figure your mileage, and copy/paste the result into the memo pad. That way, you have a running history of what you're getting.
FWIW, my '02 Chevy S-10 (extended cab, 4.3L V6 with ZQ8 suspension and the shorter rear axle ratio) has been getting mileage fairly close to the sticker. It's lately been getting 17-18 mpg around town with the A/C blasting. Highway mileage is around 20-21 mpg...a bit lower than specced, but nearly any long trip around here involves going up/down mountains and I keep the cruise control locked at 80 most of the time (and it'll keep doing 80 when lesser vehicles start slowing down). The rear end also uses a bit more fuel, since the engine has to run faster to maintain a given speed. My father and my sister both have '02 Blazers with the same engine and the normal (taller) rear end. They get a little bit better mileage, but my truck is more fun to drive. :-)
Simple minds are easily amused, apparently. /rolleyes