A pity Australia was one of the continents with the most support for bush.
You're mistaken. Read the Globalvote 2004 stats again. Australia had the second lowest support for Bush at 8.5% (681 votes). And judging by the general sentiment here, it will be a sad day for most of us if Bush were to be re-elected.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
I escaped by going to work that day:-) Yes, my room's ambient temperature hit 43 C and stayed there for a long time. It was hotter around my PC, but not by much.
It was a heat wave in my area last Saturday, hitting 39 C (103 F). My room acts as an oven with the heat from the roof adding extra fire. Lucky for me I was at work in air-conditioned comfort, leaving my poor A64 baby to suffer the gruelling heat [which didn't subside even after midnight -- I drank a lot of water that day, pleased at the A64's performance.]
I recently upgraded to a 754-pin Athlon64 3000+, and the hottest it's ever been is 51 C, a few degrees more than the room temperature of 43C. On a cooler night, with 100% CPU load for ~2.5 hours [2-pass XviD encoding], it peaked at 47 C. Quite impressive.
The trouble with one-thing-only-well items is that you end up lugging around a houseload of the stuff.
I bought the H340 partly to replace my Vosonic XS Drive + 40 GB HDD; the colour screen is an added bonus. However, I hope iRiver provides a single-click transfer function, else it's too convoluted.
The iRiver... comes with a -rather bad- databasing application
There is another iRiver database creation program out there. The good news it's stable. The bad news is you need the.latest NET framework installed for it to run.
It's essentially the same as the H320, but with a 40 GB HDD and a cool docking station. I bought it a month ago, and love it. Some random thoughts:
Ogg Vorbis support through the full bitrate range [32-500 kbps], excellent sound quality, good fit and finish, detailed colour screen that nicely displays the photos uploaded from your camera, quite tough [dropped it a few times, no probs], built-in recorder that supports upto 320kbps MP3s, a ton of useful accessories, a quality padded clip-on case, line in/out, great navigation, no need for drivers [plug and play with any OS that supports generic USB mass storage devices], serves as a back-up drive, a text reader to store lyrics or e-books, lovely graphics all over the place... so what's not to like?
The lovely LCD remote that comes with the H1x0 series is replaced with a bare-bones slimline model with no display. Playlists cannot be created on the H340. Gapless playback is not yet available for Ogg Vorbis or MP3. Firmware updates are deplorably infrequent.
Hopefully the folks at iRiver will get their act together. Highly recommended!
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- No encryption support now, none planned.
Skype uses 256-bit AES encryption, which, if implemented properly, should be secure enough for just about anyone.
- No compression on the audio, bandwidth hog.
The speech codec used by Skype outputs a compressed stream which cannot be compressed further; try zipping an MP3 and you will see what I mean.
- Skype rhymes with hype.
How is this relevant?
The other points can be debunked by those who actually use Skype.
About time they hit down on those causing real grief.
Which is more than can be said about you. Ha!
You're mistaken. Read the Globalvote 2004 stats again. Australia had the second lowest support for Bush at 8.5% (681 votes). And judging by the general sentiment here, it will be a sad day for most of us if Bush were to be re-elected.
The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth -- by 70%
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
I am currently in the southern hemisphere, residing in au.bne. Here's a report about last Saturday's heatwave.
Could be from my handle.
Cheers!
-- CD
I escaped by going to work that day :-) Yes, my room's ambient temperature hit 43 C and stayed there for a long time. It was hotter around my PC, but not by much.
It was a heat wave in my area last Saturday, hitting 39 C (103 F). My room acts as an oven with the heat from the roof adding extra fire. Lucky for me I was at work in air-conditioned comfort, leaving my poor A64 baby to suffer the gruelling heat [which didn't subside even after midnight -- I drank a lot of water that day, pleased at the A64's performance.]
I recently upgraded to a 754-pin Athlon64 3000+, and the hottest it's ever been is 51 C, a few degrees more than the room temperature of 43C. On a cooler night, with 100% CPU load for ~2.5 hours [2-pass XviD encoding], it peaked at 47 C. Quite impressive.
It started off with the "iPod users are thieves!!11!!11!!" outburst; now he delivers this ripper. What next, Slashdotters are closet Windows(TM) lovers?
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The meds seem to have no effect, Ballmer. Check the dates
first post robots
Having to deal with multiple RAW implementations, this will be a lifesaver. Hope it takes off.
BTW, does anyone have a download link/torrent for the Adobe DNG Converter and Camera Raw 2.3 update? I tried to register, but all the site does is throw up errors.
Thanks,
CD
IEView is what you need. Cheers!
-- CD
The trouble with one-thing-only-well items is that you end up lugging around a houseload of the stuff.
I bought the H340 partly to replace my Vosonic XS Drive + 40 GB HDD; the colour screen is an added bonus. However, I hope iRiver provides a single-click transfer function, else it's too convoluted.
Yes. No.
It's essentially the same as the H320, but with a 40 GB HDD and a cool docking station. I bought it a month ago, and love it. Some random thoughts:
... so what's not to like?
Ogg Vorbis support through the full bitrate range [32-500 kbps], excellent sound quality, good fit and finish, detailed colour screen that nicely displays the photos uploaded from your camera, quite tough [dropped it a few times, no probs], built-in recorder that supports upto 320kbps MP3s, a ton of useful accessories, a quality padded clip-on case, line in/out, great navigation, no need for drivers [plug and play with any OS that supports generic USB mass storage devices], serves as a back-up drive, a text reader to store lyrics or e-books, lovely graphics all over the place
The lovely LCD remote that comes with the H1x0 series is replaced with a bare-bones slimline model with no display. Playlists cannot be created on the H340. Gapless playback is not yet available for Ogg Vorbis or MP3. Firmware updates are deplorably infrequent.
Hopefully the folks at iRiver will get their act together. Highly recommended!
-- CD
do i keep getting this?: "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
Priceless :-)