I used to watch TechTV now and then. Not a lot, since it wasn't very balanced as far as OSes go, but once in a while.
I never really watched G4, just once or twice to see what it ws about. Yawn.
When G4 bought them, I watched a little to see what would happen.
I now no longer watch G4 at all.
Rest in Peace, TechTV. It was a great concept, and hopefully someday, somebody will see clear to ressurect it or create their own computer tech channel.
"Phoenix-Tech" anyone ?
Passwords should be stored somewhere for just such events, perhaps in a safety deposit box, or written in a book that's very well hidden and instructions to find it made available after death.
In any case, it's a personal responsiblity thing, although I sympathize with the family member on both losing the family member ( a little more important I'd think) and losing the historical family documents.
Perhaps there is a way to an exception here, but there won't be any quick and easy non-legal method, of that you can be sure
That poll was taken in mid-June, when things were at their worst: right after Abu-Ghraib, fighting with Sadr, etc.
It's gotten a little better since then, and I didn't see anything about "stealing" oil.
Why is privatizing stealing ? So it's not a socialist model, (US's oil companies aren't state run) but Iraq is sitting on a ton of oil and the only ones who got rich from it for the past several decades was Saddam, his henchman, and more recently, possibly some of those involved in the oil for food scandal.
Are you suggesting that these companies are just going to help themselves to the oil and Iraq itself will not see a dime ? That would never work. No doubt it's a killer capitalistic opportunity, but I fail to see where this suggests the Iraq people will not profit as well. Sure, some scumbags will no doubt go over the line, but that doesn't preclude the benefit of the experience these companies could bring.
Since the Iraqi people themselves have never before benefitted from their oil, I think they stand an excellent chance of raising their standard of living, once the insurgency is controlled or stopped. I'm not saying the US is promising a Utopia, but in 5 years I'd bet mod points that Iraq is going to be much better off than before all this began. I'd rather be an optimist than a pessimist.
oh yeah - because www.novell.com can't handle a slashdotting.
news flash - it was slow for you because you have a shitty connection
You haven't visited Novell's website all that often, then. There are days when their support knowledgebase page is either seemingly running off a a 56k modem connection or down alltogether. This isn't to bash Novell, just observations from experience from the past 5 years. Their site has never been terribly perky to begin with, on average.
Having said that, it actually seems decently perky today.
Well I'm from manhattan, and we call it the only good thing in the arm pit state...:) jk
Hey, I'm from New Jersey, and we resemble that remark !!
Just to chime in, I grew up in Mount Holly, and everyone I know called it "Great Adventure". Now either term is fine, they're interchangable, and arguing about it is assinine.
This is as good a time as any to visit, they usually have some decent things setup for Halloween, although I haven't been there in a number of years.
One thing I will always remember, though, is the time my older brother and I went through the safari park (is that even still there ?), and a babboon hopped up on top of the roof of his pinto (yes, that long ago). Suddenly, a solid wash of golden liquid poured down the windshield, seemingly endlessly. Good thing the windows were rolled up ! Those bastards liked to tear up vinyl roofs too. After that, we just stuck with the amusement rides from then on.
Many inattentive voters in the 2000 election were sincerely surprised to discover that a President can be elected without receiving the highest number of popular votes.
That line right there is very telling.
Now, I am in no way condoning or suggesting the revoking of anyone's right to vote, but as an exercise in the hypothetical, and referencing an earlier post in this thread discussing the creation of the electoral college as a body that purported to be politically-intellectually superior to the average layman, it does perhaps bear out that a great many Americans know relatively little of our system of government, instead choosing to divorce themselves of such boring matters and satiate themselves in front of a TV watching drivel like American Idol, Survivor #264: Lost in DisneyWorld, and endless, mindless sitcom after sitcom.
Many of you won't humor me the following paragraphs, which is understandable, but sometimes it's fun to play devil's advocate:
Have you ever known someone that voted based on a coin toss, or because a candidate looked younger, or more attractive ? Should a person sucseptible to irrelevant distractions and apathetic towards meaningful issues abstain from voting, or at least have someone representative vote for them ? Should people who have no grasp of, or concern for, the issues, or of the way our government (whether they agree with it or not) is structured, be empowered to place or preempt a candidate from office? Or, put another way, would you want someone who knew nothing about surgery get to choose who your surgeon was if you were going under the knive for a life or death operation? (and assuming they didn't know much about the surgeon, either).
This is all just food for thought, and just as much part of an open mind as abolishing the EC is. Probably the kinds of questions the forefathers asked themselves.
Maybe the EC really did function this way in it's infancy, in a limited respect, especially considering the times, when say, a tradesman probably knew nothing except his trade. He might have even been illiterate, for that matter !
There's also a belief (which he says is obsolete and not held as seriously as it once was by many Hindus, at least those living in the western world) that the entire cosmos is periodically destroyed when a great many things get too far gone to be fixed even by global-level catastrophe, and Brama starts creation over anew.
In which case Shiva is the big reset button. Well, as John Carmack reluctantly acknowledged a few years ago, "it's a Win32 world". Thank Vishnu for Shiva !
Oh, and maybe Lexar should take a cue from my sig and encrypt it twice..:-)
(Now back to our regularly scheduled topic)
Yet you see advertising everywhere on TV, in the streets.
Exactly. Well, that, and, as I said in my first post, it's got to do with the zoning regulations that townships and cities establish: for example, billboards must often be of a certain size in a certain place on a certain lot. Note that I never said I was "okay with this", though, as accused by the AC above you. I was just stating a fact: that's how the system works. That guy needs to lay off the drugs. In fact, I never even said I would've busted the guy, just that I'm not fond of grafitti, advertisements, all those eyesores in general.
I don't think it's so bad. I'm forced to put up with advertising that is shoved in my face everywhere I go, and I get no say about it. The only difference here is that this guy did it for free and it's messages from the people, not from some corporation that has profit in mind.
My eyes are accosted daily by billboards and advertising, but they do obey certain zoning laws, costs, and restrictions. Supposedly, anyway.
Frankly, I do take some objection to the original post for referring to this as, "this guy's work". Really, "work" ? Like this is some sort of serious artistic endeavor ? Or are they referring to his "getting the message out" kind of work ?
I don'particularly care to see pro Bush, pro Kerry, anti Bush, nor anti Kerry chalk graffiti on the streets. It's just bozotic. Hell, I don't even like seeing all the political posters and placards that people put up on their front lawn, but that's their private property so they have that right.
I guess it comes down to this: people have the right to express themselves, but do they have the right to shove it in my face ?
The link didn't come out right, sorry bout that.
Not sure why it won't work, but if you're geniunely curious, just go to amazon.com and do a search on iPod, it'll come up on the page. The seller is bedu seller.
I kinda hope I didn't burn myself, but this has got to be too good to be true: there's a "new" dealer on Amazon who claims to sell 15GB iPods for $75. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-fo rm/002-9329946-3576057/
They have absolutely no feedback or record at all. It smells to high heaven. However, Amazon has a guarantee. If this dealer doesn't come through, I'll put in a claim.
Anyone else ever bought anything like this before from Amazon ?
Bah. Cordless mice are too laggy and they don't have good sample rates. Not like a standard USB mouse.
A year ago I would have agreed with you.
Then I bought my Logitech MX700. It actually responds better than my previous optical corded mouse. It is, for me, the best mouse I've ever owned, and it is dead on balls (no pun intended:) It also looks sleek while looking functional. Why would anyone want a "museum piece" for a mouse anyway ?
Even if we are belting out radio waves using every milliamp of power we possess, they are simply drowned out by the enormous radio source we orbit.
Not really. From everything I've ever read, it's said that we emit as much radio activity as a small star.
That, along with the fact that our radio "noise" isn't random, should help us stand out rather well, I'd think.
I don't think it'll take us 200 more years before we see this kind of storage.
http://littrell.doroch.nl/data/engineering/tech/Is olinearChips.htm
We already have commercial holographic storage now. The disparity in the technological predictions of STtng is miles wide, they were so conservative when it comes to computer technology.
http://littrell.doroch.nl/data/engineering/tech/Is olinearChips.htm
How long before we stop using discs all together ? Anyone care to guess ? 5 years ? 10 years ?
From what I have read, the change is temporary and the eye returns to normal after not wearing them. In the beginning, this change is within a day. Is the change gradual or instantaneous change?
It's fairly gradual. Your eyeballs won't just pop back into their original shape all of a sudden, although that paints a pretty funny mental image.
As for the treatment itself, they recommend that you get an "intermediate" pair of eyeglasses for the interim week that your eyes are adjusting, and no doubt this would help if you have a double shift or forget to wear them some night.
Even so, this would have some unpleasant side effects just because your eyes would be constantly changing until they finally went back to their natural shape. But I'd still try this than lasik or lasek, or PRK, or wavefront, at this point. It's the least invasive. Ever hear of corneal rings (INTACS) ? Ewwww !
So, I'm sorry that I can't give you a first hand account as yet, but I will once I go through with it.
It's still a bit tough to find many doctors or offices who do it, but you can find a list on paragon's website:
http://www.paragoncrt.com
You'd also be hard pressed to find an insurance company that will cover it, as yet, but that will come around in time.
As far as I'm concerned, it's *the* option: totally reversible, no dry eyes, no contacts in the daytime, the only drawback is the hassle of cleaning and maintenance.
If you're still not sure about LASIK or PRK, why not try Paragon CRT ?
I'm opting for this myself: Basically, after having your eyes topographically scanned, you wear corrective rigid or semi-rigid contacts at night, which after 3 days to 2 weeks gradually reshape your cornea so that light focuses properly on your retina. You take them out in the morning, and your eyes retains the shape for the full day and you see clearly without having to worry about eyesrops, glasses, etc. Naturally, if you stop wearing the contacts, your original vision returns after a few days.
It's said to be relatively painless, very effective, safe, and totally reversible. While it still involves some hassle, I'd say not nearly as much as regular contacts do, and you can be free of glasses too.
Check with your Better Business Bureau or its overseas equivalent.
Don't waste your time checking with the BBB, instead, check with your county's consumer affairs agency (if you're in the states). Unlike the BBB, Consumer Affairs doesn't take money from businesses as "membership" dues, which anymore amounts to little more than a paid bribe to ensure a good rating.
It's bad that Bush abused science to go to war. I just hope Bush didn't use science to trick the American public into thinking he caught Saddam, when in reality he's still running around.
While I disagree with the Bush administration over some things, like stem cell research, I don't agree that he deliberately mislead - the senate report is out and it pretty firmly acknowledges that the intelligence community is at fault: Clinton, Kerry, Dacshle, all had the same intell that the president had and all voted for the war. Now that we find the intell was bad, but what evidence is there that Bush knew all along there were no WMDs ? He's not the best Pres we ever had, but I don't think he's blatantly dishonest either.
Nicely said. Tubes, especially in guitar amplifiers, definitely color the sound. It's a coloring that most guitarists actually like, the amp becomes part of the instrument. If you want to compare which device can reproduce sound more accurately, solid state would win, but in guitar amplication, that's not necessarily the goal.
The other significant factor here is the way in which tubes go nonlinear, or distort. They tend to gently clip the wave increasingly as the input gain increase, whereas transistors tend to just go into a full clip mode, and you get a nasty buzzsaw effect. MOSFETs are much better, but still not quite as gentle as a tube.
OTOH, if you're playing death metal, it probably doesn't matter because there's just so much distortion anyway, but for blues and soft rock, it's crucial.
I also remember reading that solid state distortion tends to generate odd order harmonics, and tubes tend to generate even order harmonics, (which are considered more musical or less disonant), but later read that this was a myth, so I'm not sure about this.
Good Site here about tube guitar amps:
http://users.chariot.net.au/~gmarts/ampovdrv.htm
Do you honestly believe that the US government has not been the killer of more than 3000 inocent americans?
I don't think it's exactly fair to hold the federal government accountable for the actions of some (mostly) southern states, but I've no desire to make this a racial issue.
Now, if you tally up the number of Americans killed by enemy forces over it's 200+ year history, I think you'll find the ratio to be lopsided enough to not even make a worthwhile comparison to say, South Africa or some Asian countries. If you count the number of soldiers who died during the Civil War, however, you might have a whole new argument.
In any case, I think it's ludicrous in this day and age to fear our government, as an American citizen, equally or more than terrorism itself. If these Islamic terrorists ever get a hold of just one H-bomb, and they are trying like hell, well.. I think my point will be made, but sure as hell not how I wanted to be proven right.
And to the argument that goes, "well, even if we block or restrict xyz, they can still use abc, so why bother ?", what, we should just sit on our butts then and make no attempt to intercept their messages or block their actions ?
What's the alternative ?
So, there really haven't been a number of civilian contractors recently tortured, shot, and beheaded in Iraq? I knew CNN was making all that up, down to publishing the videos of Nick Berg's "death" on the web...
Not exaclty what he meant. The *only* stories CNN covers regarding Iraq are those of violence. Not a single story about the rebuilt schools, infrastructure, or any of that. In fact, you'd think the country was simply crumbling apart, when it's not.
Now, for some perspective, how many murders, rapes, and arsons were reported in your local news today ? How about for your entire state ? Or tri-state area ? How many murders does a state like California, stated to be about the overall area of Iraq, see in a month, or a year? What if the news never covered any of the non violent events in your state ? It would sound like a hell hole to live in. Maybe yours is, or maybe it isn't. The point is the way the messages are conveyed and in what context. Sensationalism. The term was coined pre-depression era.
The practice has been in use ever since. Just to quote a snippet from the NY University's web page, which in turn was lifted from the Grolier Encyclopedia:
William Randolph Hearst, an admirer of Pulitzer, took control of his father's San Francisco Examiner in 1887, then purchased the New York Journal in 1895. In their battle for circulation leadership in New York, Hearst and Pulitzer cut the price of their newspapers to a penny, tried to hire away each other's editors and reporters and filled their papers with even more bloody, bizarre and salacious stories. Pulitzer and particularly Hearst also crusaded, with huge front-page headlines and emotional, sometimes misleading stories, for war with Spain over Cuba. "How do you like the Journal's war?" Hearst's paper asked after war broke out in 1898. Circulations for both newspapers sometimes topped a million copies a day.
Do a search on Joseph Pulizter or Randolph Hearst and you'd find yourself wondering why any self respecting, honest journalist would covet the Pulizter Prize. Also see, "Yellow Journalism".
So please tell me, how do you enter the phone number/ address/ important piece of information you've just been told into your cell phone while you are talking on it?
And how would you do it with separate devices ?
Most cell phones I've had don't lend themselves very well to cradling them in your neck like a landline phone does (and even some of them aren't too accomdating either).
>BR>
On the other hand, if someone is sending you data or information over your cell phone, and/or the room is noisy, why not just have them send a txt message ? Then you can manipulate the data however you like.
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I used to watch TechTV now and then. Not a lot, since it wasn't very balanced as far as OSes go, but once in a while.
I never really watched G4, just once or twice to see what it ws about. Yawn.
When G4 bought them, I watched a little to see what would happen.
I now no longer watch G4 at all.
Rest in Peace, TechTV. It was a great concept, and hopefully someday, somebody will see clear to ressurect it or create their own computer tech channel.
"Phoenix-Tech" anyone ?
I know, off topic, but I couldn't send a private message. Interesting nick. Tip of the hat to the world famous magician ?
Passwords should be stored somewhere for just such events, perhaps in a safety deposit box, or written in a book that's very well hidden and instructions to find it made available after death. In any case, it's a personal responsiblity thing, although I sympathize with the family member on both losing the family member ( a little more important I'd think) and losing the historical family documents. Perhaps there is a way to an exception here, but there won't be any quick and easy non-legal method, of that you can be sure
That poll was taken in mid-June, when things were at their worst: right after Abu-Ghraib, fighting with Sadr, etc. It's gotten a little better since then, and I didn't see anything about "stealing" oil.
Why is privatizing stealing ? So it's not a socialist model, (US's oil companies aren't state run) but Iraq is sitting on a ton of oil and the only ones who got rich from it for the past several decades was Saddam, his henchman, and more recently, possibly some of those involved in the oil for food scandal.
Are you suggesting that these companies are just going to help themselves to the oil and Iraq itself will not see a dime ? That would never work. No doubt it's a killer capitalistic opportunity, but I fail to see where this suggests the Iraq people will not profit as well. Sure, some scumbags will no doubt go over the line, but that doesn't preclude the benefit of the experience these companies could bring.
Since the Iraqi people themselves have never before benefitted from their oil, I think they stand an excellent chance of raising their standard of living, once the insurgency is controlled or stopped. I'm not saying the US is promising a Utopia, but in 5 years I'd bet mod points that Iraq is going to be much better off than before all this began. I'd rather be an optimist than a pessimist.
oh yeah - because www.novell.com can't handle a slashdotting.
news flash - it was slow for you because you have a shitty connection
You haven't visited Novell's website all that often, then. There are days when their support knowledgebase page is either seemingly running off a a 56k modem connection or down alltogether. This isn't to bash Novell, just observations from experience from the past 5 years. Their site has never been terribly perky to begin with, on average.
Having said that, it actually seems decently perky today.
Document and Record absolutely everything you do, but only when you're alone ;-)
Well I'm from manhattan, and we call it the only good thing in the arm pit state ... :) jk
Hey, I'm from New Jersey, and we resemble that remark !!
Just to chime in, I grew up in Mount Holly, and everyone I know called it "Great Adventure". Now either term is fine, they're interchangable, and arguing about it is assinine.
This is as good a time as any to visit, they usually have some decent things setup for Halloween, although I haven't been there in a number of years.
One thing I will always remember, though, is the time my older brother and I went through the safari park (is that even still there ?), and a babboon hopped up on top of the roof of his pinto (yes, that long ago). Suddenly, a solid wash of golden liquid poured down the windshield, seemingly endlessly. Good thing the windows were rolled up ! Those bastards liked to tear up vinyl roofs too. After that, we just stuck with the amusement rides from then on.
That line right there is very telling.
Now, I am in no way condoning or suggesting the revoking of anyone's right to vote, but as an exercise in the hypothetical, and referencing an earlier post in this thread discussing the creation of the electoral college as a body that purported to be politically-intellectually superior to the average layman, it does perhaps bear out that a great many Americans know relatively little of our system of government, instead choosing to divorce themselves of such boring matters and satiate themselves in front of a TV watching drivel like American Idol, Survivor #264: Lost in DisneyWorld, and endless, mindless sitcom after sitcom.
Many of you won't humor me the following paragraphs, which is understandable, but sometimes it's fun to play devil's advocate:
Have you ever known someone that voted based on a coin toss, or because a candidate looked younger, or more attractive ? Should a person sucseptible to irrelevant distractions and apathetic towards meaningful issues abstain from voting, or at least have someone representative vote for them ?
Should people who have no grasp of, or concern for, the issues, or of the way our government (whether they agree with it or not) is structured, be empowered to place or preempt a candidate from office? Or, put another way, would you want someone who knew nothing about surgery get to choose who your surgeon was if you were going under the knive for a life or death operation? (and assuming they didn't know much about the surgeon, either).
This is all just food for thought, and just as much part of an open mind as abolishing the EC is. Probably the kinds of questions the forefathers asked themselves.
Maybe the EC really did function this way in it's infancy, in a limited respect, especially considering the times, when say, a tradesman probably knew nothing except his trade. He might have even been illiterate, for that matter !
In which case Shiva is the big reset button. Well, as John Carmack reluctantly acknowledged a few years ago, "it's a Win32 world". Thank Vishnu for Shiva !
:-)
Oh, and maybe Lexar should take a cue from my sig and encrypt it twice..
(Now back to our regularly scheduled topic)
Yet you see advertising everywhere on TV, in the streets.
Exactly. Well, that, and, as I said in my first post, it's got to do with the zoning regulations that townships and cities establish: for example, billboards must often be of a certain size in a certain place on a certain lot. Note that I never said I was "okay with this", though, as accused by the AC above you. I was just stating a fact: that's how the system works. That guy needs to lay off the drugs. In fact, I never even said I would've busted the guy, just that I'm not fond of grafitti, advertisements, all those eyesores in general.
I don't think it's so bad. I'm forced to put up with advertising that is shoved in my face everywhere I go, and I get no say about it. The only difference here is that this guy did it for free and it's messages from the people, not from some corporation that has profit in mind.
My eyes are accosted daily by billboards and advertising, but they do obey certain zoning laws, costs, and restrictions. Supposedly, anyway.
Frankly, I do take some objection to the original post for referring to this as, "this guy's work". Really, "work" ? Like this is some sort of serious artistic endeavor ? Or are they referring to his "getting the message out" kind of work ?
I don'particularly care to see pro Bush, pro Kerry, anti Bush, nor anti Kerry chalk graffiti on the streets. It's just bozotic. Hell, I don't even like seeing all the political posters and placards that people put up on their front lawn, but that's their private property so they have that right.
I guess it comes down to this: people have the right to express themselves, but do they have the right to shove it in my face ?
The link didn't come out right, sorry bout that.
Not sure why it won't work, but if you're geniunely curious, just go to amazon.com and do a search on iPod, it'll come up on the page. The seller is bedu seller.
I kinda hope I didn't burn myself, but this has got to be too good to be true: there's a "new" dealer on Amazon who claims to sell 15GB iPods for $75.o rm/002-9329946-3576057/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-f
They have absolutely no feedback or record at all. It smells to high heaven. However, Amazon has a guarantee. If this dealer doesn't come through, I'll put in a claim.
Anyone else ever bought anything like this before from Amazon ?
Bah. Cordless mice are too laggy and they don't have good sample rates. Not like a standard USB mouse.
:)
A year ago I would have agreed with you.
Then I bought my Logitech MX700. It actually responds better than my previous optical corded mouse. It is, for me, the best mouse I've ever owned, and it is dead on balls (no pun intended
It also looks sleek while looking functional. Why would anyone want a "museum piece" for a mouse anyway ?
Even if we are belting out radio waves using every milliamp of power we possess, they are simply drowned out by the enormous radio source we orbit.
Not really. From everything I've ever read, it's said that we emit as much radio activity as a small star.
That, along with the fact that our radio "noise" isn't random, should help us stand out rather well, I'd think.
I don't think it'll take us 200 more years before we see this kind of storage.s olinearChips.htm s olinearChips.htm
http://littrell.doroch.nl/data/engineering/tech/I
We already have commercial holographic storage now. The disparity in the technological predictions of STtng is miles wide, they were so conservative when it comes to computer technology.
http://littrell.doroch.nl/data/engineering/tech/I
How long before we stop using discs all together ? Anyone care to guess ? 5 years ? 10 years ?
From what I have read, the change is temporary and the eye returns to normal after not wearing them. In the beginning, this change is within a day. Is the change gradual or instantaneous change?
It's fairly gradual. Your eyeballs won't just pop back into their original shape all of a sudden, although that paints a pretty funny mental image.
As for the treatment itself, they recommend that you get an "intermediate" pair of eyeglasses for the interim week that your eyes are adjusting, and no doubt this would help if you have a double shift or forget to wear them some night.
Even so, this would have some unpleasant side effects just because your eyes would be constantly changing until they finally went back to their natural shape. But I'd still try this than lasik or lasek, or PRK, or wavefront, at this point. It's the least invasive. Ever hear of corneal rings (INTACS) ? Ewwww !
So, I'm sorry that I can't give you a first hand account as yet, but I will once I go through with it. It's still a bit tough to find many doctors or offices who do it, but you can find a list on paragon's website:
http://www.paragoncrt.com
You'd also be hard pressed to find an insurance company that will cover it, as yet, but that will come around in time.
As far as I'm concerned, it's *the* option: totally reversible, no dry eyes, no contacts in the daytime, the only drawback is the hassle of cleaning and maintenance.
If you're still not sure about LASIK or PRK, why not try Paragon CRT ?
I'm opting for this myself: Basically, after having your eyes topographically scanned, you wear corrective rigid or semi-rigid contacts at night, which after 3 days to 2 weeks gradually reshape your cornea so that light focuses properly on your retina. You take them out in the morning, and your eyes retains the shape for the full day and you see clearly without having to worry about eyesrops, glasses, etc. Naturally, if you stop wearing the contacts, your original vision returns after a few days.
It's said to be relatively painless, very effective, safe, and totally reversible. While it still involves some hassle, I'd say not nearly as much as regular contacts do, and you can be free of glasses too.
http://www.paragoncrt.com
Don't waste your time checking with the BBB, instead, check with your county's consumer affairs agency (if you're in the states). Unlike the BBB, Consumer Affairs doesn't take money from businesses as "membership" dues, which anymore amounts to little more than a paid bribe to ensure a good rating.
And what do you see wrong with fuel cells ?
While I disagree with the Bush administration over some things, like stem cell research, I don't agree that he deliberately mislead - the senate report is out and it pretty firmly acknowledges that the intelligence community is at fault: Clinton, Kerry, Dacshle, all had the same intell that the president had and all voted for the war. Now that we find the intell was bad, but what evidence is there that Bush knew all along there were no WMDs ? He's not the best Pres we ever had, but I don't think he's blatantly dishonest either.
Nicely said. Tubes, especially in guitar amplifiers, definitely color the sound. It's a coloring that most guitarists actually like, the amp becomes part of the instrument. If you want to compare which device can reproduce sound more accurately, solid state would win, but in guitar amplication, that's not necessarily the goal.
The other significant factor here is the way in which tubes go nonlinear, or distort. They tend to gently clip the wave increasingly as the input gain increase, whereas transistors tend to just go into a full clip mode, and you get a nasty buzzsaw effect. MOSFETs are much better, but still not quite as gentle as a tube.
OTOH, if you're playing death metal, it probably doesn't matter because there's just so much distortion anyway, but for blues and soft rock, it's crucial.
I also remember reading that solid state distortion tends to generate odd order harmonics, and tubes tend to generate even order harmonics, (which are considered more musical or less disonant), but later read that this was a myth, so I'm not sure about this.
Good Site here about tube guitar amps:
http://users.chariot.net.au/~gmarts/ampovdrv.htm
I don't think it's exactly fair to hold the federal government accountable for the actions of some (mostly) southern states, but I've no desire to make this a racial issue. .. I think my point will be made, but sure as hell not how I wanted to be proven right.
Now, if you tally up the number of Americans killed by enemy forces over it's 200+ year history, I think you'll find the ratio to be lopsided enough to not even make a worthwhile comparison to say, South Africa or some Asian countries. If you count the number of soldiers who died during the Civil War, however, you might have a whole new argument.
In any case, I think it's ludicrous in this day and age to fear our government, as an American citizen, equally or more than terrorism itself. If these Islamic terrorists ever get a hold of just one H-bomb, and they are trying like hell, well
And to the argument that goes, "well, even if we block or restrict xyz, they can still use abc, so why bother ?", what, we should just sit on our butts then and make no attempt to intercept their messages or block their actions ?
What's the alternative ?
Not exaclty what he meant. The *only* stories CNN covers regarding Iraq are those of violence. Not a single story about the rebuilt schools, infrastructure, or any of that. In fact, you'd think the country was simply crumbling apart, when it's not.
Now, for some perspective, how many murders, rapes, and arsons were reported in your local news today ? How about for your entire state ? Or tri-state area ? How many murders does a state like California, stated to be about the overall area of Iraq, see in a month, or a year? What if the news never covered any of the non violent events in your state ? It would sound like a hell hole to live in. Maybe yours is, or maybe it isn't. The point is the way the messages are conveyed and in what context.
Sensationalism. The term was coined pre-depression era. The practice has been in use ever since. Just to quote a snippet from the NY University's web page, which in turn was lifted from the Grolier Encyclopedia:
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/Collier's%20p
Do a search on Joseph Pulizter or Randolph Hearst and you'd find yourself wondering why any self respecting, honest journalist would covet the Pulizter Prize. Also see, "Yellow Journalism".
So please tell me, how do you enter the phone number/ address/ important piece of information you've just been told into your cell phone while you are talking on it?
And how would you do it with separate devices ? Most cell phones I've had don't lend themselves very well to cradling them in your neck like a landline phone does (and even some of them aren't too accomdating either). >BR>
On the other hand, if someone is sending you data or information over your cell phone, and/or the room is noisy, why not just have them send a txt message ? Then you can manipulate the data however you like.