Yes, I did. Didn't you read what I commented on?
An analog recording, properly done, is not going to have any effect at all on a 128 kbps MP3. None that I can hear, anyway. Then again, I did work on a flight line for several years...
I decided long ago that I would never pay for another album from a major label. I've never even heard of most of today's "chart topping" bands. I listen to indie music and swap CDs with my friends. When I do buy a CD -- which I actually do on occasion -- it involves handing a wad of bills to the artist. I seldom listen to the radio, and when I do it's classic rock. Since I only recognize copyright for 14 years (or 28 if the artist formally requests an extension, which of course none of them do anymore) I can freely download my favorite oldies from gnutella. And if anyone tries to stop me, I'll just shoot 'em in the face. Pretty simple, really...
It's certainly true that Firefox is more standards complaint. Unfortunately, it's also irrelevant, since way too many web authors don't care about standards.
Irrelevant nothing. It's not that Web designers don't care, it's that they have to accomodate the majority who are still stuck in IE hell. But at the same time Web authors are getting fed up, Firefox is growing in popularity, not just for its standards compliance but for its relative security. Even dumb users and PHBs are starting to catch on to how bad IE really is. At some point in the near future, market penetration of Firefox and Mozilla and the rest will reach some critical mass, and IE will be trampled and left in the dust. Good riddance!
You're reading a blog right now. Nice troll. But for the benefit of those who modded you "insightful"...
Unlike traditional media, blogs aren't a one-sided conversation. Blogs are dialogue. They are simultaneously public and personal. In that sense, they're no different from USENET or the old dial-up bulletin boards. But they're even more diverse, because they're more accessible to the masses.
Some blogging sites provide mechanisms to connect with other bloggers. I blog on Live Journal, which lets me search for other LJ bloggers in my home town, or with similar interests. I can put interesting blogs on my "friends list", and post entries that only designated friends can read. I can also browse my friends' friends lists and find more interesting people. It's a new kind of social interaction. And it's not limited to the Internet. I've met several of my LJ friends, and attended local events I wouldn't otherwise been aware of.
Right. Because after I shoot up heroin, I always go behind the local computer store to dump my needles.
People who use needles for medical reasons are gernally responsible enough to seal them in a red plastic container before disposing of them. I wouldn't dive a residential trash bin, but business class trash is likely to be pretty clean. I'd be more concerned about ordinary cuts and bruises than some diabetic pencil-pusher's dirty needles.
When you shoot a scene with a wider focal length, objects look different in relation to each other because of the distortion of the lens
Wide angle lenses don't inherently cause distortion. A cropped section of a wide-angle shot is EXACTLY the same compositionally as using a telephoto lens. (But of course it will be lower quality.)
Try the PhotoDirector software from Ritz. It retails for $29.95, but (undocumented feature) you can also get it by having a roll of film scanned or your memory card burned to a CD.
Well, that's reassuring. After I get my teaching degree I want to move back to Japan, but I didn't understand how I could possibly live on the kind of salaries I'm hearing about.:o)
I guess it makes sense. Okinawa is Japan's equivalent of South Florida: beautiful tropical paradise and major tourist trap. Not to mention home to several thousand U.S. servicemen with variable cost-of-living allowances.
"In an era where programming labour is relatively cheap and computer connectivity more frequent, can artificial, marketing-driven barriers between technology products last?"
We now return you to your regularly scheduled pedantry.;o)
A couple weeks ago I was reading the police briefs in the local rag, and there was a bit about somebody stealing dumpsters full of used cooking grease from behind restaurants. At the time, I was like, WTF? Those things smell like ass, why would somebody want to steal one? It makes a little more sense now...
if you ask anyone in the streets . . . they will tell you that they are much more afraid of violence in countries that allow people to carry weapons around
OK, so your hypothetical man on the street is completely ignorant. What is that supposed to prove?
I'd be interested to know how many times people really defend themselves with their guns (and what is the ratio against "gun accidents" for instance).
Average annual incidence of self-defense actions involving firearms, 1987-1992: 82,500 (USDOJ)
The numbers stack up pretty well, I'd say. And that's not even taking into account that the incidence of firearm-related accidents has decreased dramatically in the last decade.
The problem is convincing the Right that there even is a problem. I've long held the theory that Christians don't care about the environment because they think Jesus is going to come back and take them away before it gets really bad. Some of them actually believe in and want to see a literal manifestation of Revelations chapter 8. My own father, super-Christian extraordinaire, confirms this and actually seems smugly proud of it.
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. -- Rev 8:7-12
However, in another, its really exciteing to think some pencil neck in washington is reading what we type -and actually cares-.
That's just the thing, though; human beings aren't reading most of this stuff. I'm sure my email got through several levels of AI filters before a human ever saw it.
You might rationalize that I was being routinely monitored because I was in the military and held a "secret" clearance for the ECM gear I worked on. But... the email in question was sent via a commercial email account from my off-base apartment. I was never required to disclose my private email address to the government. So even if I was specifically being monitored at a higher level than the average citizen, it at least shows that the FBI has some way of locating and identifying you any time you go online.
Ok, Christians also gave those things, but we calmed down..they haven't.
Exactly. And look at when Christianity was founded, and when Islam was founded. Consider where Christianity was 500-1000 years ago, and you'll see that Islam is right about on schedule. Give 'em a few hundred years, they'll mellow out.
"...law enforcement officials who oversee Matrix insist that the terrorism scoring system ultimately was kept out of the project, largely because of privacy concerns."
Yeah, and the assistant director of the FBI testified before Congress that Carnivore was only used to monitor suspected criminals. That was three months after Special Agent Irwin K. Summerville showed up at my door with a copy of an email I'd sent to my father, in which I called Janet Reno "the domestic enemy I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against."
Maybe they changed their policy. You know, because the FBI cares about privacy. Honestly.
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I'm with the GP poster... I could live extravagantly for the rest of my life on $1 million, and I would be perfectly content to do so.
And when the doctor says I have terminal cancer, I'm going to dig up my assault rifles and come after folks like you.
"Technically", if our government only consisted of 90,000 people, we wouldn't be in most of the messes we're in.
Exactly my point. Glad we agree.
Yes, I did. Didn't you read what I commented on? An analog recording, properly done, is not going to have any effect at all on a 128 kbps MP3. None that I can hear, anyway. Then again, I did work on a flight line for several years...
Well, none. Nobody's tried to arrest me or take my computer... yet.
I decided long ago that I would never pay for another album from a major label. I've never even heard of most of today's "chart topping" bands. I listen to indie music and swap CDs with my friends. When I do buy a CD -- which I actually do on occasion -- it involves handing a wad of bills to the artist. I seldom listen to the radio, and when I do it's classic rock. Since I only recognize copyright for 14 years (or 28 if the artist formally requests an extension, which of course none of them do anymore) I can freely download my favorite oldies from gnutella. And if anyone tries to stop me, I'll just shoot 'em in the face. Pretty simple, really...
'Nuff said.
Or you could buy the album. *snicker*
Irrelevant nothing. It's not that Web designers don't care, it's that they have to accomodate the majority who are still stuck in IE hell. But at the same time Web authors are getting fed up, Firefox is growing in popularity, not just for its standards compliance but for its relative security. Even dumb users and PHBs are starting to catch on to how bad IE really is. At some point in the near future, market penetration of Firefox and Mozilla and the rest will reach some critical mass, and IE will be trampled and left in the dust. Good riddance!
Unlike traditional media, blogs aren't a one-sided conversation. Blogs are dialogue. They are simultaneously public and personal. In that sense, they're no different from USENET or the old dial-up bulletin boards. But they're even more diverse, because they're more accessible to the masses.
Some blogging sites provide mechanisms to connect with other bloggers. I blog on Live Journal, which lets me search for other LJ bloggers in my home town, or with similar interests. I can put interesting blogs on my "friends list", and post entries that only designated friends can read. I can also browse my friends' friends lists and find more interesting people. It's a new kind of social interaction. And it's not limited to the Internet. I've met several of my LJ friends, and attended local events I wouldn't otherwise been aware of.
If Florida doesn't get their shit straight most ricky-tick, they're getting kicked out of the Union and occupied by armed Yankee militias. Texas, too.
People who use needles for medical reasons are gernally responsible enough to seal them in a red plastic container before disposing of them. I wouldn't dive a residential trash bin, but business class trash is likely to be pretty clean. I'd be more concerned about ordinary cuts and bruises than some diabetic pencil-pusher's dirty needles.
Wide angle lenses don't inherently cause distortion. A cropped section of a wide-angle shot is EXACTLY the same compositionally as using a telephoto lens. (But of course it will be lower quality.)
Try the PhotoDirector software from Ritz. It retails for $29.95, but (undocumented feature) you can also get it by having a roll of film scanned or your memory card burned to a CD.
Manuals tell you what all the buttons and dials are. They don't tell you when or why you would want to use them.
I guess it makes sense. Okinawa is Japan's equivalent of South Florida: beautiful tropical paradise and major tourist trap. Not to mention home to several thousand U.S. servicemen with variable cost-of-living allowances.
More like an Americanization of the once-legendary Japanese business ethic.
Where the hell can you live in Japan on 50K yen a month? When I lived in Okinawa, I think the cheapest rent on the island was about three times that.
"In an era where programming labour is relatively cheap and computer connectivity more frequent, can artificial, marketing-driven barriers between technology products last?"
We now return you to your regularly scheduled pedantry. ;o)
A couple weeks ago I was reading the police briefs in the local rag, and there was a bit about somebody stealing dumpsters full of used cooking grease from behind restaurants. At the time, I was like, WTF? Those things smell like ass, why would somebody want to steal one? It makes a little more sense now...
I'm lucky; my SO loves playing The Sims while I play DAoC. I'll never understand, but I certainly won't complain.
OK, so your hypothetical man on the street is completely ignorant. What is that supposed to prove?
I'd be interested to know how many times people really defend themselves with their guns (and what is the ratio against "gun accidents" for instance).
Average annual incidence of self-defense actions involving firearms, 1987-1992: 82,500 (USDOJ)
Annual accidental fatalities involving firearms, 1993: 1543
Unintentional firearms-related injuries, 1993: 21,385 (CDC)
The numbers stack up pretty well, I'd say. And that's not even taking into account that the incidence of firearm-related accidents has decreased dramatically in the last decade.
That's just the thing, though; human beings aren't reading most of this stuff. I'm sure my email got through several levels of AI filters before a human ever saw it.
You might rationalize that I was being routinely monitored because I was in the military and held a "secret" clearance for the ECM gear I worked on. But... the email in question was sent via a commercial email account from my off-base apartment. I was never required to disclose my private email address to the government. So even if I was specifically being monitored at a higher level than the average citizen, it at least shows that the FBI has some way of locating and identifying you any time you go online.
Ok, Christians also gave those things, but we calmed down..they haven't.
Exactly. And look at when Christianity was founded, and when Islam was founded. Consider where Christianity was 500-1000 years ago, and you'll see that Islam is right about on schedule. Give 'em a few hundred years, they'll mellow out.
Yeah, and the assistant director of the FBI testified before Congress that Carnivore was only used to monitor suspected criminals. That was three months after Special Agent Irwin K. Summerville showed up at my door with a copy of an email I'd sent to my father, in which I called Janet Reno "the domestic enemy I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against."
Maybe they changed their policy. You know, because the FBI cares about privacy. Honestly.