"If your a LICENSED Amateur Radio Operator, cantennas and this dish used for the record are legal. Anyone else, like 90 percent of us who use WiFI, it's not legal."
And in case anyone is curious, the team are all licensed amateur radio operators:
"The Power Mac G5 is of workstation quality. You got the best processors (two PowerPC G5s) and the best operating system (Mac OS X). Now in 2007 the Power Mac will lose what makes that Mac a Power Mac. I just hate seeing elegant platforms die."
I couldn't have said it better myself. I'll stick with the Mac, as it is still the best choice available, but Apple's switch to Intel took the wind right out of my sails and it hasn't come back.
"You may want to check with your state, but most states require everyone over the age of 18 to carry a state ID/DL/Passport/etc. If you do not and a cop stops you, he can cite you (possibly arrest you) for not carrying ID. Yes not many people know this, and probably not many cops would do this - but they can."
I'd be interested in where the 'most states' concept comes from. To the best of my knowledge, no state that I have ever lived in has this requirement (yes, I've lived in more than one).
'After all, it seems somehow "okay" to expose kids to violence in the states. Sex is a whole other thing...'
"I understand the origin of a few of the popular myths on/., but this one continues to baffle me"
I would have to say you are easily baffled.
Take a look at international movie ratings on IMDB. Pick some movies with a some sexual content. You will find that in the US, these movies are consistently rated more restrictively than in European countries.
A good example would be Malena, an Italian coming-of-age movie set in WW-II Italy. From IMDB: Finland:15, Germany:12, Netherlands:16 / Norway:15, Portugal:16, Spain:13, Sweden:11, Switzerland:14, UK:15 / USA:R (Under 17 not admitted without parent). Also note that the R-rated version seen in the US was specifically cut/censored for America.
Puritanical doesn't begin to describe it.
A. (who didn't even mention the wardrobe malfunction)
"People NEVER verify the card holders name to the ID these days so having the actual card stolen from someone is just about as safe. (When they did attempt to ID me I would claim that I didnt bring my wallet, just the card and they would let me make a $599 purchase at best buy)."
In many cases, the contract with the vendor specifically says that they are to validate the signature and nothing else (ie: they are not allowed to demand your id).
I actually like this policy, it's a lot harder to forge my signature than fake a driver's license:-)
"Besides, most people don't follow conventions anyway"
I think you have identified the source of the problem.
Quips aside, When I was a boy the creator of the OS defined what went into/bin,/usr/bin, and so on. The administrator of the machine put stuff into/usr/local. This way when something broke you had a nice way of finding out who to blame.
People have forgotten, never knew, or just don't care about stuff like that anymore. We all pay the price. Recently, I downloaded an OSS binary package (with an installer) for an OS X user-space application. On a hunch I looked at what and where it wanted to install - oops! "/usr/bin". I bypassed the installer and manually put the parts in/usr/local/bin. I shouldn't have had to do that.
"Asimov gives a good argument for humanoid robots in Caves of Steel - namely economy."
If I remember correctly, Asimov's primary reason for using the human shape was that it was the most successful and adaptable shape in nature. Economy was secondary.
"Wait a minute. Why can't MGM answer a simple question -- did they letterbox a pan-and-scan cut of a movie and try to pass it off as a widescreen movie?"
It's not clear that anyone asked that question.
The complaint is that the 'widescreen' versions of their films have the same image width as their 'full screen' versions, and the implication is that this is automatically bad.
As another poster has pointed out, if they took a movie that was matted in the theater to 1.85:1 and matted it on the DVD to match, the image width would be exactly the same as the 'full screen' version.
The irony here is that this is what a large number of people *want*. They want their movie on the DVD to be identical to what they saw in the theater. MGM may have given them exactly that.
"Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s, against the original Ethernet speed of 10 Mbit/s"
Regardless of whether you were talking about latency or bandwidth, you were talking about Ethernet. So, what do you mean when you say:
"However, the fact that you probably cannot upgrade the ethernet capabilities in a mac mini to even fast ethernet is probably the bigger strike against the mac mini."
As as I said before, the mini is 10/100. According to the link you gave me that's 'fast'.
A. (who is posting so much 'cause it was a snow day)
"However, the fact that you probably cannot upgrade the ethernet capabilities in a mac mini to even fast ethernet is probably the bigger strike against the mac mini."
"I'm past 40 and whenever it's about what interests me the most, I have no problem learning new stuff."
Yes, but when we were 10, we learned everything - whether we were interested in it or not. Bet you have some pop music floating around in your head that you'd just as soon forget, eh?
A. (who has some of that pop music in his own head)
"Also you have to think about the fact that Halo is rated M (17+), how many of those kids are old enough to play the game without their parents consent anyway?"
All of them are old enough. A game rating says nothing about who is *allowed* to play.
"Halo 2 is not really meant for children in the first place."
Ridiculous. Halo/Halo2 are written and intended for exactly those age groups in high school. The fact that it has an M-whatever rating is solely because the manufacturers and stores need to cover *their* butts against stupid lawsuits and attitudes.
Hey, 3270s were coax-connected to a channel-attached controller with a 4.5MB/sec path to the CPU. You could do video on them (if you didn't mind the fact that your pixels were the size of a tic-tac.
A. (who lusts for the feel of a 3270 keyboard under his fingers)
"And I say this as a long-time Mac lover, typing this on my iBook G4 which I love dearly, but on which Warcraft 3 is slow, UT runs in Classic (which doesn't seem to support multiple mouse buttons), Quake 3 also runs in Classic because the native port is even worse, and the UT2k4 demo doesn't even render the title screen correctly."
I honestly don't know where you're coming from. I don't have any of these problems on my system. Quake 3 looks the same as the PC version to me. UT2004 is mind-blowing, and even RTCW is still fun. It's true that some games don't get ported.
"Installation of X11 after OS X is installed typically requires the user to reboot their system with their OS X install disc, and then install the X11 support atop their existing OS X installation."
It's a nit, but I think that 'typically', installing X11 involves putting in CD 3 and double-clicking on the X11 package. You make it sound pretty ugly when it isn't.
" S/390, the Big Iron, with 3380 disk drives. You don't just flip the power switch back on. An emergency power cutoff blows breakers in the power supplies on those DASD strings."
Maybe in *yours* fella, but this was not a general feature of IBM 3380s (single, double, or triple-density versions).
No device really likes a sudden loss of power, and sometimes you might trip a breaker. I don't think I've ever had to replace a 3380 breaker.
"Paypal money really is monopoly money. It's not guaranteed by the FDIC."
If that's your criteria, then most people's money is 'monopoly' money. Those mutual funds and stocks where people have their retirement are 'not guaranteed by the FDIC'.
In the sense that anything is arguable, I suppose it is. But a Prion is just a mis-folded protein. Proteins are molecules. They do not meet the scientific criteria for life.
More to the original poster, they do not 'cyst'. The reason that you can't cook prions to death is because they aren't alive in the first place. By the time you heat a prion to the point where it isn't a prion, your meat isn't meat anymore. Even the dog won't eat it.
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that's *diuretic*, though your construction is hilarious.
A.
I use one of these:
http://www.thehumansolution.com/45170.html
Which is a Balt Key-Rite keyboard stand. It's more than roomy enough for a large laptop.
A.
"If your a LICENSED Amateur Radio Operator, cantennas and this dish used for the record are legal. Anyone else, like 90 percent of us who use WiFI, it's not legal."
And in case anyone is curious, the team are all licensed amateur radio operators:
http://www.wifiworldrecord.com/team.htm
A.
"The Power Mac G5 is of workstation quality. You got the best processors (two PowerPC G5s) and the best operating system (Mac OS X). Now in 2007 the Power Mac will lose what makes that Mac a Power Mac. I just hate seeing elegant platforms die."
I couldn't have said it better myself. I'll stick with the Mac, as it is still the best choice available, but Apple's switch to Intel took the wind right out of my sails and it hasn't come back.
A.
"You may want to check with your state, but most states require everyone over the age of 18 to carry a state ID/DL/Passport/etc. If you do not and a cop stops you, he can cite you (possibly arrest you) for not carrying ID. Yes not many people know this, and probably not many cops would do this - but they can."
I'd be interested in where the 'most states' concept comes from. To the best of my knowledge, no state that I have ever lived in has this requirement (yes, I've lived in more than one).
A.
"Last I checked, VOIP uses TCP sockets."
The last time I checked, my VoIP infrastructure used UDP.
I suspect that there are enough implementations out there now to make 'VoIP' a useless term for determining the underlying technology.
A.
"You have only shown that movies involving sex are rated differently in the US then in other countries."
You are correct. I was focused on the post I replied to, which was attempting to claim that Americans are not "self-righteous Puritans".
A.
'After all, it seems somehow "okay" to expose kids to violence in the states. Sex is a whole other thing...'
/., but this one continues to baffle me"
"I understand the origin of a few of the popular myths on
I would have to say you are easily baffled.
Take a look at international movie ratings on IMDB. Pick some movies with a some sexual content. You will find that in the US, these movies are consistently rated more restrictively than in European countries.
A good example would be Malena, an Italian coming-of-age movie set in WW-II Italy. From IMDB: Finland:15, Germany:12, Netherlands:16 / Norway:15, Portugal:16, Spain:13, Sweden:11, Switzerland:14, UK:15 / USA:R (Under 17 not admitted without parent). Also note that the R-rated version seen in the US was specifically cut/censored for America.
Puritanical doesn't begin to describe it.
A.
(who didn't even mention the wardrobe malfunction)
"People NEVER verify the card holders name to the ID these days so having the actual card stolen from someone is just about as safe. (When they did attempt to ID me I would claim that I didnt bring my wallet, just the card and they would let me make a $599 purchase at best buy)."
:-)
In many cases, the contract with the vendor specifically says that they are to validate the signature and nothing else (ie: they are not allowed to demand your id).
I actually like this policy, it's a lot harder to forge my signature than fake a driver's license
A.
"Did you send the programmer a note?"
Yes. The reply was that he didn't want to cause confusion so he installed it in the same place it got installed in Linux.
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(mumbling something about two wrongs...)
"Besides, most people don't follow conventions anyway"
/bin, /usr/bin, and so on. The administrator of the machine put stuff into /usr/local. This way when something broke you had a nice way of finding out who to blame.
/usr/local/bin. I shouldn't have had to do that.
I think you have identified the source of the problem.
Quips aside, When I was a boy the creator of the OS defined what went into
People have forgotten, never knew, or just don't care about stuff like that anymore. We all pay the price. Recently, I downloaded an OSS binary package (with an installer) for an OS X user-space application. On a hunch I looked at what and where it wanted to install - oops! "/usr/bin". I bypassed the installer and manually put the parts in
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(offtopic rants a speciality)
"Asimov gives a good argument for humanoid robots in Caves of Steel - namely economy."
If I remember correctly, Asimov's primary reason for using the human shape was that it was the most successful and adaptable shape in nature. Economy was secondary.
A.
"Wait a minute. Why can't MGM answer a simple question -- did they letterbox a pan-and-scan cut of a movie and try to pass it off as a widescreen movie?"
It's not clear that anyone asked that question.
The complaint is that the 'widescreen' versions of their films have the same image width as their 'full screen' versions, and the implication is that this is automatically bad.
As another poster has pointed out, if they took a movie that was matted in the theater to 1.85:1 and matted it on the DVD to match, the image width would be exactly the same as the 'full screen' version.
The irony here is that this is what a large number of people *want*. They want their movie on the DVD to be identical to what they saw in the theater. MGM may have given them exactly that.
A.
Ok, your wiki link says:
"Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s, against the original Ethernet speed of 10 Mbit/s"
Regardless of whether you were talking about latency or bandwidth, you were talking about Ethernet. So, what do you mean when you say:
"However, the fact that you probably cannot upgrade the ethernet capabilities in a mac mini to even fast ethernet is probably the bigger strike against the mac mini."
As as I said before, the mini is 10/100. According to the link you gave me that's 'fast'.
A.
(who is posting so much 'cause it was a snow day)
"However, the fact that you probably cannot upgrade the ethernet capabilities in a mac mini to even fast ethernet is probably the bigger strike against the mac mini."
What do you call 'fast'? The mini is 10/100.
A.
(everyone on my block calls 100Mb 'fast')
"I'm past 40 and whenever it's about what interests me the most, I have no problem learning new stuff."
Yes, but when we were 10, we learned everything - whether we were interested in it or not. Bet you have some pop music floating around in your head that you'd just as soon forget, eh?
A.
(who has some of that pop music in his own head)
"Also you have to think about the fact that Halo is rated M (17+), how many of those kids are old enough to play the game without their parents consent anyway?"
All of them are old enough. A game rating says nothing about who is *allowed* to play.
"Halo 2 is not really meant for children in the first place."
Ridiculous. Halo/Halo2 are written and intended for exactly those age groups in high school. The fact that it has an M-whatever rating is solely because the manufacturers and stores need to cover *their* butts against stupid lawsuits and attitudes.
A.
"think IBM 3270 only slower"
Hey, 3270s were coax-connected to a channel-attached controller with a 4.5MB/sec path to the CPU. You could do video on them (if you didn't mind the fact that your pixels were the size of a tic-tac.
A.
(who lusts for the feel of a 3270 keyboard under his fingers)
"And I say this as a long-time Mac lover, typing this on my iBook G4 which I love dearly, but on which Warcraft 3 is slow, UT runs in Classic (which doesn't seem to support multiple mouse buttons), Quake 3 also runs in Classic because the native port is even worse, and the UT2k4 demo doesn't even render the title screen correctly."
I honestly don't know where you're coming from. I don't have any of these problems on my system. Quake 3 looks the same as the PC version to me. UT2004 is mind-blowing, and even RTCW is still fun. It's true that some games don't get ported.
To me, the Mac is more game system than I need.
A.
"Installation of X11 after OS X is installed typically requires the user to reboot their system with their OS X install disc, and then install the X11 support atop their existing OS X installation."
It's a nit, but I think that 'typically', installing X11 involves putting in CD 3 and double-clicking on the X11 package. You make it sound pretty ugly when it isn't.
A.
" S/390, the Big Iron, with 3380 disk drives. You don't just flip the power switch back on. An emergency power cutoff blows breakers in the power supplies on those DASD strings."
Maybe in *yours* fella, but this was not a general feature of IBM 3380s (single, double, or triple-density versions).
No device really likes a sudden loss of power, and sometimes you might trip a breaker. I don't think I've ever had to replace a 3380 breaker.
A.
"I don't see why the computer shouldn't be a part of their daily living environment from the beginning, like the TV or radio."
Some of us don't think that TV should be 'part of their daily living environment'.
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"But am I the only one who thinks this Santa thing might not be in the best interest of a child?"
No no, it's a valuable lesson, and it will come in handy when the parents attempt to instill belief in other beings - like god.
A.
"Paypal money really is monopoly money. It's not guaranteed by the FDIC."
If that's your criteria, then most people's money is 'monopoly' money. Those mutual funds and stocks where people have their retirement are 'not guaranteed by the FDIC'.
A.
In the sense that anything is arguable, I suppose it is. But a Prion is just a mis-folded protein. Proteins are molecules. They do not meet the scientific criteria for life.
More to the original poster, they do not 'cyst'. The reason that you can't cook prions to death is because they aren't alive in the first place. By the time you heat a prion to the point where it isn't a prion, your meat isn't meat anymore. Even the dog won't eat it.
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