They worry that Male chickens may not be able to mate
I'm not up on my barnyard fowl, but aren't those roosters? Is there such a thing as a male chicken? Are they in my nuggets? Also, they appear to be mating if they're already breeding these things (they look like bloody pink flamingos). Or is it just that roosters don't want to mate with these things because they're so damn hideous?
It should be obvious that good hologram technology is a long way off. According to Minority Report, in the year 2054 hologram technology still pretty much blows, and even as far in the future as the star wars era, the hologram technology will be blurry and intermittent.
It seems that our obsession for progressive technology is vested more in transportation than in novel media.
guess this development couldn't have come at a better time huh aol? Now that streaming radio is becoming reduced to clearchannel style crap packed full of advertisement and delivered to you by Microsoft, Disney, and yes now TW/AOL, it would seem appropriate for them to devolop propritary technology that prepares them for this vast new market they've conqured by slipping greenbacks into the RIAA's panty straps.
btw: they're out to make sure you're not exposed to new music at work too: http://www.msnbc.com/news/773100.asp?0si=-
listen to clearchannel.... by cd's for $15 a piece from the top 40 rack at Sam Goody... now dance... dance... dance...
This seems like a strange approach for an organization to take that is largely nerd supported. Many Private businesses aren't nearly as stingey and foolish. Why would a "Public" station that depends on listner support attempt to build a barrier between itself and its supporters?
Why is censorship becoming the answer more and more rather than creativity? If they're worried about people bypassing adds and the like by direct linking to their media files, why not build ads into those files or just mention in those files that the content you are receiving is from a listner supported organization that needs your help if (and only if) you
This is indeed very different than playing a CD. The whole point of this process (besides the oh-ah effect) is to eliminate two major sources of loss, recording loss and playback loss. In any professional recording the engineer producing the recording reinterprets the sound with his own artistic licesense and in doing so is partially responsible for what you hear on your CD.
While it is possible that deviations in physical conditions including the likeness of the two pianos may actually make the remote "concert" less acurate than a good recording and superb speakers for playback, it should not be likened to playing a CD or any other recording that includes manipulations by an outside party (the recording engineer).
We've had gateway profiles way before the imac was released. If anything, apple ripped this concept (the concept by the way is just a laptop on a stick) from gateway (who ripped it from someone else I'm sure). Hardly fair to compare gateway's much older design with the imac that hadn't even been conceptualized yet.
oh, btw. before you make any comment about the imac looking elegant, please make sure you've seen one IRL. They are suprisingly large and IMHO just plain hideous.
actually, this is a good point. The label "Piracy" has such negative connotation for two reasons. The first being that corporate America wants it to. The other reason is that many of us associate it with stealing from programmers and artists that are undercompensated for their work, and who may therefore not continue to improve or produce quality products/media. It would be helpful to discern what we now call media piracy in cases like this. Piracy of this film wouldn't hurt anyone and would serve as a political protest against companies like Disney/miramax.
of course this argument doesn't work if you happen to put law before morals, but IMHO, that's just nuts.
"Finally they punctured the lenses in the rats' eyes which releases proteins called crystallins."
Well, we could repair your optic nerve miss, but it will involve crushing the lens of your eye. You'll be able to see again, but everything will look like it does in a circus mirror.
these will be much cooler when they hit the states
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from what I hear, these will be the fad of the future.
Since when are Americans into low power/ low emission transportation anyway? if there weren't gas stations where would we go to the bathroom??
well your/my service should shut down at 12 PST. This is true though. The internet is still just viewed as a tech toy, a luxury. Considering I have a research paper due next week, I'd rather have my hot water and phone service switched off.
What I really don't understand is that the cable companies weren't prepared with backup vendors such as roadrunner.
For me this is right up there with the NYC blackouts in the 70s.
Keep in mind that a lot of small bands wouldn't be making much money anyway and that several small bands that I've spoken with praise song swapping as a way to distribute their stuff so that someday they can become a "big band" and then they can rest comfortably knowning that since they're brining in revenue the RIAA will protect them by making sure listners sign a form and pay a service fee everytime they listen to one of their new releases.
It's the college radio philosophy, and yes, it does work.
I keep checking the release notes for the obligatory spell checker, and am constantly dissapointed. Is it possible that they could make it all the way to 1.0 without a simple spell check feature? Why is this so difficult? surely there must be open source dictionaries they could implement? Can't they use netscape 4.x's dictionary? I'm too ashamed to recommend Mozilla to my friends simply because it lacks simple basic features like this.
Have you ever spoken to a roadie about his dorsal health?
I myself have thrown my back twice, and even disfigured my pinky finger from lifting JVC high boxes. I know fellow workers that have even more chronic back pain than myself.
This inflatable technology doesn't sound very promising though. I believe that the drivers are the bulk of the weight (carbon fiber cased drivers don't seem much lighter to me). I wonder how these things would be to stack as well since I'm picturing them having rounded edges.
I can't put spikes and tiger pits in my front yard, or electrify my doorknob. All of these are "passive" ways of protecting myself and yet they are all regulated or banned by the government.
Perhaps I used the term "passive" too loosely. Strictly speaking, owning a gun to shoot an intruder could be considered passive in comparison to pre-emptively shooting your neighbors "just to make sure." What boggles my mind beyond belief is that while the US government and the majority of citizens support an individual's right to own a gun for protection, they don't want us locking our own information files. Electric doorknobs and tiger pits are automated defense attacks in response to attempted intrusions; they're harmful and rightfully frightening. PGP won't total your root or infect your system with a virus if you enter the wrong key. It's just not scary technology that anyone needs to be protected from.
Because it is. Encryption is a passive method of defensively guarding personal property from offensive prying-eye forces (unless you consider these forces, i.e. the government, defensive because you rely on them to protect you from yourself).
  Regulation of the other goods on your list is to prevent offensive use of them.
Even if the material being encrypted is "offensive" or dangerous, you should still have a right to protect it as your own.
Americans have the right to protect themselves in many ways, but there IS a difference between buying a gun to protect your home, and buying a lock for your door. Encryption is analogous to the lock, even less offensive since you can't throw it at someone.
What if the ISP is responsible for giving the end users the virus? Should they start knocking off users they infected? My University's high traffic webmail servers have been trying to get my Mozilla browser to download readme.exe or readme.eml for three days now (perhaps no one has mentioned a patch to the admins??). A huge percentage of the campus is infected/re-infected daily, and our servers are still dishing this thing out! It would be pretty hipocritical for them to block users even after they patch their system considering their role in the mess.
sure sure, viruses can be rewritten to timeout to avoid a tarpit, but unless software like this becomes widespread (and I doubt it will), chances are very very few viruses would be built to consider them. Same reason viruses aren't ported for Macs or *nix. I find one of the best ways to avoid these outbreaks is simply through nonconventional software solutions. So I say kudos to this kind of development.
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I'm not up on my barnyard fowl, but aren't those roosters? Is there such a thing as a male chicken? Are they in my nuggets? Also, they appear to be mating if they're already breeding these things (they look like bloody pink flamingos).
Or is it just that roosters don't want to mate with these things because they're so damn hideous?
It seems that our obsession for progressive technology is vested more in transportation than in novel media.
guess this development couldn't have come at a better time huh aol? Now that streaming radio is becoming reduced to clearchannel style crap packed full of advertisement and delivered to you by Microsoft, Disney, and yes now TW/AOL, it would seem appropriate for them to devolop propritary technology that prepares them for this vast new market they've conqured by slipping greenbacks into the RIAA's panty straps.
btw: they're out to make sure you're not exposed to new music at work too: http://www.msnbc.com/news/773100.asp?0si=-
listen to clearchannel.... by cd's for $15 a piece from the top 40 rack at Sam Goody... now dance... dance... dance...
Why is censorship becoming the answer more and more rather than creativity? If they're worried about people bypassing adds and the like by direct linking to their media files, why not build ads into those files or just mention in those files that the content you are receiving is from a listner supported organization that needs your help if (and only if) you
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"All television sets sold today will have outputs for a receiver" Uh, no they don't. I've seen a number that only have mono outputs too.
This is indeed very different than playing a CD. The whole point of this process (besides the oh-ah effect) is to eliminate two major sources of loss, recording loss and playback loss. In any professional recording the engineer producing the recording reinterprets the sound with his own artistic licesense and in doing so is partially responsible for what you hear on your CD.
While it is possible that deviations in physical conditions including the likeness of the two pianos may actually make the remote "concert" less acurate than a good recording and superb speakers for playback, it should not be likened to playing a CD or any other recording that includes manipulations by an outside party (the recording engineer).
huh, I always thought BezOS was an operating system
you talked to a girl?
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Sorry, but you are *not* representative of the average
C'mon now, Real Audio(TM) always sounds awful. This isn't news!
yeah, but with $78+ mil, I'd hope even a slashdotter could get a chick.
wow! you know 100000000 people? In that case we've probably already met. nice to chat with you again.
We've had gateway profiles way before the imac was released. If anything, apple ripped this concept (the concept by the way is just a laptop on a stick) from gateway (who ripped it from someone else I'm sure). Hardly fair to compare gateway's much older design with the imac that hadn't even been conceptualized yet.
oh, btw. before you make any comment about the imac looking elegant, please make sure you've seen one IRL. They are suprisingly large and IMHO just plain hideous.
actually, this is a good point. The label "Piracy" has such negative connotation for two reasons. The first being that corporate America wants it to. The other reason is that many of us associate it with stealing from programmers and artists that are undercompensated for their work, and who may therefore not continue to improve or produce quality products/media. It would be helpful to discern what we now call media piracy in cases like this. Piracy of this film wouldn't hurt anyone and would serve as a political protest against companies like Disney/miramax.
of course this argument doesn't work if you happen to put law before morals, but IMHO, that's just nuts.
well if you actually use these ads you should support outcomes based on relevance values, not user-irrelevant data such as contribution amount.
Well, we could repair your optic nerve miss, but it will involve crushing the lens of your eye. You'll be able to see again, but everything will look like it does in a circus mirror.
Since when are Americans into low power/ low emission transportation anyway? if there weren't gas stations where would we go to the bathroom??
well your/my service should shut down at 12 PST. This is true though. The internet is still just viewed as a tech toy, a luxury. Considering I have a research paper due next week, I'd rather have my hot water and phone service switched off.
What I really don't understand is that the cable companies weren't prepared with backup vendors such as roadrunner.
For me this is right up there with the NYC blackouts in the 70s.
Keep in mind that a lot of small bands wouldn't be making much money anyway and that several small bands that I've spoken with praise song swapping as a way to distribute their stuff so that someday they can become a "big band" and then they can rest comfortably knowning that since they're brining in revenue the RIAA will protect them by making sure listners sign a form and pay a service fee everytime they listen to one of their new releases.
It's the college radio philosophy, and yes, it does work.
I keep checking the release notes for the obligatory spell checker, and am constantly dissapointed. Is it possible that they could make it all the way to 1.0 without a simple spell check feature? Why is this so difficult? surely there must be open source dictionaries they could implement? Can't they use netscape 4.x's dictionary? I'm too ashamed to recommend Mozilla to my friends simply because it lacks simple basic features like this.
This inflatable technology doesn't sound very promising though. I believe that the drivers are the bulk of the weight (carbon fiber cased drivers don't seem much lighter to me). I wonder how these things would be to stack as well since I'm picturing them having rounded edges.
Perhaps I used the term "passive" too loosely. Strictly speaking, owning a gun to shoot an intruder could be considered passive in comparison to pre-emptively shooting your neighbors "just to make sure." What boggles my mind beyond belief is that while the US government and the majority of citizens support an individual's right to own a gun for protection, they don't want us locking our own information files. Electric doorknobs and tiger pits are automated defense attacks in response to attempted intrusions; they're harmful and rightfully frightening. PGP won't total your root or infect your system with a virus if you enter the wrong key. It's just not scary technology that anyone needs to be protected from.
Damn. Why isn't there a "Star-Trek Prequels" filter?
Because it is. Encryption is a passive method of defensively guarding personal property from offensive prying-eye forces (unless you consider these forces, i.e. the government, defensive because you rely on them to protect you from yourself).
  Regulation of the other goods on your list is to prevent offensive use of them.
Even if the material being encrypted is "offensive" or dangerous, you should still have a right to protect it as your own.
Americans have the right to protect themselves in many ways, but there IS a difference between buying a gun to protect your home, and buying a lock for your door. Encryption is analogous to the lock, even less offensive since you can't throw it at someone.
What if the ISP is responsible for giving the end users the virus? Should they start knocking off users they infected? My University's high traffic webmail servers have been trying to get my Mozilla browser to download readme.exe or readme.eml for three days now (perhaps no one has mentioned a patch to the admins??). A huge percentage of the campus is infected/re-infected daily, and our servers are still dishing this thing out! It would be pretty hipocritical for them to block users even after they patch their system considering their role in the mess.
sure sure, viruses can be rewritten to timeout to avoid a tarpit, but unless software like this becomes widespread (and I doubt it will), chances are very very few viruses would be built to consider them. Same reason viruses aren't ported for Macs or *nix. I find one of the best ways to avoid these outbreaks is simply through nonconventional software solutions. So I say kudos to this kind of development.