Whereas the conservatives have decided to say "up yours" to the Kyoto Treaty.
Erm, Kyoto was bullshit from day one, that's indisputable fact. How many signatories have ever satisfied its requirements? Also, any agreement that doesn't cover China or other 'developing economies' is a total nonstarter.
A true market-style population based international carbon credit scheme makes a lot more sense.
I agree that the current species-protection laws aren't perfect. They are better than nothing, and can be much improved.
Convince the ultra-rights that we should actually conserve our resources for our grand-children, and there's have the battle.
Oh those nuts don't give a damn, they're eagerly awaiting the Rapture and are stoking the Iranian nutjobs to bring Armageddon. There are fair and rational free-market arguments for conservation, the oldest being 'waste not want not'. Of course the duckspeakers on the left would never want to give subsidies to actually pay the expensive costs of making "big corporations" able to conserve and increase profits at the same time, and the duckspeakers on the right won't invest in conservation that has long-term profitability since it doesn't guarantee short-term "shareholder value".
Seriously though, I'm actually surprised that Apple, Sony or DirecTV haven't bought them out yet, but perhaps with this patent case they'll be more attractive..
Oh, and btw, since the last software update I've had to reset my 30-second skip like 10 times now. I assume that this is the prelude to removing 30-second skip.
IMHO it is better to have missile defense (SDI, Star Wars, whatever you choose to call it) than to not have it. If only to provide it to American allies such as Taiwan, Israel, Japan, South Korea, etc. Also, it's a great jobs program for smart Americans. Additionally, there are bound to be handy spinoffs.
Yeah it won't keep out the suitcase/shipping container nukes. So what, move out of the major cities until another strike hits, so we can then turn everything from Morocco to Pakistan into an elongated glass crater, I'll bring the marshmallows.
... For me personally I'm pretty happy with the 640x480 fixed lens no-flash cam on my P800. I have a 5mp Minolta Dimage A1 that gets _amazing_ results, but it's also big and bringing it along means that I'm on a photography 'mission'.
The phone cam is good for the spontaneous shot. Mine is pretty fast to load the camera program (and has a dedicated cam button) and I can whip out the phone and shoot a pic within 3 secs. The resolution is low when compared to a computer monitor, but when viewed on a standard TV the resolution is great. There's definitely noise but no more so than a DV pause on S-Video. Also, the quality of the 'print' is not the point, it's the quality of the moment captured.
The cam is no substitute for a real cam of course, but for camblogging, spontaneity, and even real-life stuff like car accidents or 'citizen reporting' it's fine.
Oh, and real-life camphone save.. my old 2mp Elph died after I landed in Belgium for a 2-week vacation, I ended up using my camphone to document my trip to Normandy, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Waterloo. As long as I had adequate daylight it worked pretty darned well IMHO. A side benefit was that I could get away with taking snaps in the Van Gogh museum without attracting unwanted attention (they prohibit cameras there) as well as at other museums on that trip (Louvre, Pompidou Ctr, Rijksmuseum, etc). And with the 128MB memory stick duo I get at least 250 snaps...
Unless things have changed shockingly since I was in school, the best way to get an 'IT' education at a typical college or university is:
Get a job in the campus computer labs. Preferably supporting unix/X11 terminals, printers, etc.
Assuming, of course, that they still exist, now that every student's supposed to have their own laptop these days..
But yeah, someone who builds a linux box for fun and enjoys spending a weekend figuring out how to get Gentoo to install on a SATA software RAID setup is the right choice, someone who read all the textbooks but isn't too curious or hackerish, not so much.
So here's a question.. What about creating a virus that affects men who share a certain percentage of patrilineal DNA, that is, of a bloodline with a known patriarch?
Pick an enemy, dig up their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, create the virus, and release it using UAVs...
If only the Democrats had the guts to step in and fill the void instead of likewise pandering to its base...
Never happen.
At least the Republican party has Giuliani, Bloomberg, McCain, Schwarzenegger, Specter, Colin Powell.. Folks who are just as happy as Democrats (and me, frankly) to see DeLay get DeFrocked.. Who do the Democrats have that isn't a complete tool of the left, besides possibly Ron Wyden? Where are the principled, moderate Democrats? (answer: retired or Republicans, or dead like the late great Pat Moynihan...)
But 1080p as a standard is not fully fleshed out, you have to really hunt to find a TV that will actually accept a 1080p input, and even then it may not accept a non-HDCP input (1080p only being supported via HDMI).
... At least when I tried them, there were pretty constant hiccups in camera movement and pauses when trying to do real-time style combat.. Halo 2 is pretty tight though, even in splitscreen.
I was thinking of getting a 360 to play XBL Call of Duty with the nephews, but they'll have to live with Halo 2 until I get a HD 1080p set..
Is it just me or has/. really been behind the pace of news lately? I'm seeing links come up like hours or even days after I see 'em on theinquirer, arstechnica, macnn, etc...
The only reason NV supports Linux....
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.... Is 'cuz of folks doing workstation graphics (like CGI, visualization, modeling, etc). The more folks move to Linux from SGI, Solaris, etc, the more attention Linux drivers will get. The fact that the chipsets are similar enough for consumer-grade graphics boards to be supported is a nice plus, but I very much doubt the Linux gaming community plays much more of a role than that of testers and bugreporters.
Slashdot Mirror
.... Makes things a lot faster, even on broadband, and if I were using a buggy browser it'd be protected from image buffer overflows...
Whereas the conservatives have decided to say "up yours" to the Kyoto Treaty.
Erm, Kyoto was bullshit from day one, that's indisputable fact. How many signatories have ever satisfied its requirements? Also, any agreement that doesn't cover China or other 'developing economies' is a total nonstarter.
A true market-style population based international carbon credit scheme makes a lot more sense.
I agree that the current species-protection laws aren't perfect. They are better than nothing, and can be much improved.
Bullshit!
They're _not_ better than nothing.
Convince the ultra-rights that we should actually conserve our resources for our grand-children, and there's have the battle.
Oh those nuts don't give a damn, they're eagerly awaiting the Rapture and are stoking the Iranian nutjobs to bring Armageddon. There are fair and rational free-market arguments for conservation, the oldest being 'waste not want not'. Of course the duckspeakers on the left would never want to give subsidies to actually pay the expensive costs of making "big corporations" able to conserve and increase profits at the same time, and the duckspeakers on the right won't invest in conservation that has long-term profitability since it doesn't guarantee short-term "shareholder value".
Seriously though, I'm actually surprised that Apple, Sony or DirecTV haven't bought them out yet, but perhaps with this patent case they'll be more attractive..
Oh, and btw, since the last software update I've had to reset my 30-second skip like 10 times now. I assume that this is the prelude to removing 30-second skip.
Warning to Tivo: DO NOT FUCK WITH 30-SECOND SKIP.
Does anybody have any recommendations for a ThinkPad replacement? A company that makes solid laptops and stands behind them 100%?
Yes.
Token Ring is hardly comparable as a 'flop'.. It was widely implemented and successful for a long time, and as a protocol it's pretty solid.
Now, OfficeVision on the other hand.....
What about Madge?
When I was at IBM _we_ even had a couple Madge TR switches...
What is with all the pinkos lately?
IMHO it is better to have missile defense (SDI, Star Wars, whatever you choose to call it) than to not have it. If only to provide it to American allies such as Taiwan, Israel, Japan, South Korea, etc. Also, it's a great jobs program for smart Americans. Additionally, there are bound to be handy spinoffs.
Yeah it won't keep out the suitcase/shipping container nukes. So what, move out of the major cities until another strike hits, so we can then turn everything from Morocco to Pakistan into an elongated glass crater, I'll bring the marshmallows.
... For me personally I'm pretty happy with the 640x480 fixed lens no-flash cam on my P800. I have a 5mp Minolta Dimage A1 that gets _amazing_ results, but it's also big and bringing it along means that I'm on a photography 'mission'.
The phone cam is good for the spontaneous shot. Mine is pretty fast to load the camera program (and has a dedicated cam button) and I can whip out the phone and shoot a pic within 3 secs. The resolution is low when compared to a computer monitor, but when viewed on a standard TV the resolution is great. There's definitely noise but no more so than a DV pause on S-Video. Also, the quality of the 'print' is not the point, it's the quality of the moment captured.
The cam is no substitute for a real cam of course, but for camblogging, spontaneity, and even real-life stuff like car accidents or 'citizen reporting' it's fine.
Oh, and real-life camphone save.. my old 2mp Elph died after I landed in Belgium for a 2-week vacation, I ended up using my camphone to document my trip to Normandy, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Waterloo. As long as I had adequate daylight it worked pretty darned well IMHO. A side benefit was that I could get away with taking snaps in the Van Gogh museum without attracting unwanted attention (they prohibit cameras there) as well as at other museums on that trip (Louvre, Pompidou Ctr, Rijksmuseum, etc). And with the 128MB memory stick duo I get at least 250 snaps...
Unless things have changed shockingly since I was in school, the best way to get an 'IT' education at a typical college or university is:
Get a job in the campus computer labs. Preferably supporting unix/X11 terminals, printers, etc.
Assuming, of course, that they still exist, now that every student's supposed to have their own laptop these days..
But yeah, someone who builds a linux box for fun and enjoys spending a weekend figuring out how to get Gentoo to install on a SATA software RAID setup is the right choice, someone who read all the textbooks but isn't too curious or hackerish, not so much.
So here's a question.. What about creating a virus that affects men who share a certain percentage of patrilineal DNA, that is, of a bloodline with a known patriarch?
Pick an enemy, dig up their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, create the virus, and release it using UAVs...
Happens with iDEN phones too, ala Nextel.
Guess how I know.
They could get stabbed...
Better put down that sunblock.. It could have zebra cum in it, you just _don't_ _know_...
If only the Democrats had the guts to step in and fill the void instead of likewise pandering to its base...
Never happen.
At least the Republican party has Giuliani, Bloomberg, McCain, Schwarzenegger, Specter, Colin Powell.. Folks who are just as happy as Democrats (and me, frankly) to see DeLay get DeFrocked.. Who do the Democrats have that isn't a complete tool of the left, besides possibly Ron Wyden? Where are the principled, moderate Democrats? (answer: retired or Republicans, or dead like the late great Pat Moynihan...)
You forgot the most important one:
"WON'T ANYBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!!"
And btw, Tipper Gore vs. Body Count. I think I just dated myself.
Linux has a _ton_ of user interfaces. _That's_ why every Win32 developer _isn't_ porting to it.
Here's hoping something like this will eventually reduce the difference between GNOME and KDE to just different APIs for the same underlying WM...
It doesn't matter, it's not an iPod. Chicks dig iPod, so ask for it by name.
Give me an iPod that has a red LED screen and 14k gold all around so that it looks like some kind of wicked '70s digital watch, Daddy _like_...
But 1080p as a standard is not fully fleshed out, you have to really hunt to find a TV that will actually accept a 1080p input, and even then it may not accept a non-HDCP input (1080p only being supported via HDMI).
I have.
Now I just need enough space for one...
Why would you waste your money on a 1080p set when the Xbox 360 only does 720p/1080i?
So I can play World of Warcraft on it?
1080p is the highest resolution there will be for at least 10-15 years. Why buy a set which you'll have to junk when you have upgrade lust?
... At least when I tried them, there were pretty constant hiccups in camera movement and pauses when trying to do real-time style combat.. Halo 2 is pretty tight though, even in splitscreen.
I was thinking of getting a 360 to play XBL Call of Duty with the nephews, but they'll have to live with Halo 2 until I get a HD 1080p set..
Bug report 31337: Users report that the background on dynamic pages has 'gone to plaid'. Please advise.
Is it just me or has /. really been behind the pace of news lately? I'm seeing links come up like hours or even days after I see 'em on theinquirer, arstechnica, macnn, etc...
.... Is 'cuz of folks doing workstation graphics (like CGI, visualization, modeling, etc). The more folks move to Linux from SGI, Solaris, etc, the more attention Linux drivers will get. The fact that the chipsets are similar enough for consumer-grade graphics boards to be supported is a nice plus, but I very much doubt the Linux gaming community plays much more of a role than that of testers and bugreporters.
"I wanna explore the far reaches of aerodynamics and materials science, and discover flight characteristics that have never been discovered!"
"Look, you're British, scale it down a bit, all right?"
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