"i don't think macdonalds would have a vested interest in this though."
i take that back. it'll be freaky if macdonalds released a new burger called the McCosmos. given their track record that might not be too far off. they could get dr hannibal lector to promote it though.
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given how stringent the selection criteria is for their astronauts and how few people subsequently qualify, i think they should start developing lab-grown astonauts. i don't think macdonalds would have a vested interest in this though.
exactly....i'm chinese too. the reason why people might have the impression chinese are short, is because a lot of chinese from the past generation were malnourished due to poverty, and that stunted their growth. i'm taller than both my parents, so it surely isn't genetic.
i'm still slightly shorter than the average chinese male here though....so i think i'd have been shot by mistake had i been involved in the liberation of machuria;)
how is the parent post a troll? this is one of the most insightful posts i've read in a while. perhaps it hits the truth too closely for some US-centric moderator to stomach. sheesh....grow up and quit whining. the fact is that the US is quickly losing its competitive edge due to widespread affluence which has bred arrogance and complacency.
i listen to mp3s all the time and i can still tune my guitar or violin as accurately as an electronic tuner. sounds like that article was written by a conspiracy-theorists + audiophile pseudo-scientist.
one of the links mentioned that the sonic cruiser would reduce flight times by about 15% to 20% though...not 50%. if it did reduce the flight times by 50%, chances are they would not have shelved it since the benefits would be more substantial.
"Let's realize that they haven't factored in the cost of 52X certified media"
one thing i haven't really quite figured out is why the cdr media has to be "certified" up to a certain speed. the same way cars that can go faster have to make up for the increased speed with better tyres, aerodynamics, etc, shouldn't the increase in rotational speed of the cdrw drive be made up for by a stronger laser to make up for the decreased amount of time the cdr media is exposed to the laser?
don't mean to start another technical debate but i can't seem to figure this one out.
i'm a windows user, and i don't consider myself clueless. i don't use linux because the only things i use my computer for is browsing the internet, gaming, and reading slashdot. i would help someone else, whether he or she was a linux, windows, or mac user.
nice story, and congrats to the guy, but i did find the mac elitism a bit annoying. if he had approached me for help and i was able to help him, i wouldn't bother if he was a mac or pc user.
i agree. worse still, the danger the wearable airbag poses should it inflate when its not supposed to would be immense. will the company be held liable in such an event?
true....the quality of some rips are decent, but still the average divx rip beats them. not only is the quality of the average divx rip better, the resolution is usually rather high, in the 700 x 300 ballpark, whereas SVCD rips are usually approximately 300 x 200.
with the divx rips, you can blow it up to full screen, and it still looks good.
you gotta know which kind of rips to download. always download the divx encoded DVD rip of movies; those have the best quality, and are sometimes indistinguishable from the original DVD itself. there are some divx-encoded DVD rips that are split into two 600-700 meg files, and the quality is akin to a 256kbit/sec mp3. when i say indistinguishable, i mean it. you can play the oringinal DVD side by side with it, and you -cannot- tell the difference at all.
never download those SVCD rips or divx encoded VCD rips. you can usually tell because the former are in mpeg format, and the latter are usually only a few hundred megs, as compared to about 700 megs for a DVD ripped divx movie.
in my experience, the rips with the best quality are those from sharereactor.
this is interesting....i know this is a little off-topic, but i've been having a problem with my geforce2 and geforce4 graphics cards having a redish tint to it. i can adjust it through the nvidia drivers, but when i try to play games it changes back to the default settings which give it a reddish tint, and its very annoying. do you have any idea how to go about setting a permanent colour tweak in the bios or something?
blind people don't make up the majority of internet users. if they did, i think the advertising companies would find some way to market their ads to the blind people, and blind people would no longer not have to hear/feel the ads.
its the same reason why countries with conscription exempt individuals who are not physically fit from serving in the military. do the same rules apply to the minority? of course not. if 90% of the country's population was physically unfit, with back problems and such, then i think the country's government would have to review its conscription criteria or policies.
i would mod you up if i had the points and didn't already participate in this discussion:)
sorry for the assumption i made about blind people and the web, but i still feel that there should be some way or another to expose them to ads, if possible.
i suppose at the moment blind people kinda get away with not having ads, as they're still the minority when compared to the rest. but should blind people suddenly make up 80% of the people using the web, then i think companies would find some way to get their ads to them.
show me some links, and show me some proof that those devices are in widespread usage by throngs of blind people to access the web, then maybe your rebuttal might hold some weight with me.
i can't possibly fathom a way a pop-up or website might manifest itself on a braille pad to the same effect as on a computer monitor.
text to speech? fine, then the pop-up ad should be read out in the background whilst the main content of the website is being read out. any attempt by the blind person to purposely cancel out the background "pop-up" ad would be theft.
like i said to another poster, poke holes in my logic, not my examples and analogies. clearly, you don't have much of a case against me.
"But most sites offer an alternative form of payment."
most, not all. what if the website you're visiting only has pop-ups for ads? in that case, the pop-up ads would be the only source of revenue for them and by blocking those ads, you would be in effect stealing the right to view the content on the site.
"And plus, like an earlier poster pointed out, people who block pop-up ads are sure as hell not going to disable them to see a website."
of course they're not. a burglar is sure as hell not going to return a wallet full of cash he stole from some poor sod. does that mean the burglar is in the right?
"And even if they did, do you really think they'd click on them!?"
i don't think they'll click on them. the number of people who actually click on ads are the sparse minority. all that you have to do is look at the ad. that's all. you don't have to click on it, you don't have to buy the products, and you don't have to sell your soul to view the website's content.
like i mentioned in another post, if pop-ups were frequently used for purposes other than for showing ads then fine, block pop-ups. but since everyone here knows that pop-ups are almost always used for showing ads, then blocking ads with that knowledge in mind is as good as stealing. its comparable to leaving bricks in the middle of the highway. since you know that the bricks in the middle of the highway is very likely to cause a serious car accident, then placing the bricks in the middle of the highway should be a crime.
"Except nobody told me I had to listen to a salesman to get a 30% discount."
ok, i didn't specify that, but my analogy is that you agree to listen to a salesman to get that 30% discount.
if websites used pop-ups for other stuff, then fine, there's nothing wrong with blocking pop-ups. the problem is, most people know that pop-ups are 99.9% of the time used for showing ads. blocking ads with that in mind, is as good as stealing the content on the websites, in my opinion.
no offence, but poke holes in my logic instead of my analogies.
there's no such thing as braille computer monitors (as far as i know), so i'll go out on a limb and assume that if you're blind, you won't be able to see the content on the websites, much less navigate the web.
since you're blind and therefore don't have access to the content on the sites, then there's no way you can steal the content.
actually i do agree with you. i've had my fair share of killer pop-ups, and those are blatant cases of java or html exploits that border on malicious.
those usual pop-ups you get at geocities or other web-hosting services is ok with me, and i think blocking them out would be rather unethical, since that's where they get the money to recoup their losses or make profits.
i guess its my fault that i didn't state clearly in my original post which kind of pop-up ads i was referring to. my bad:p its just that the whole "free beer" mentality that some/. posters subscribe to gets at me sometimes.
because if you do, the 30% discount you enjoyed would be something you didn't deserve to have, since "payment" for that 30% discount was to hear out the salesman's sales pitch.
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"i don't think macdonalds would have a vested interest in this though."
i take that back. it'll be freaky if macdonalds released a new burger called the McCosmos. given their track record that might not be too far off. they could get dr hannibal lector to promote it though.
given how stringent the selection criteria is for their astronauts and how few people subsequently qualify, i think they should start developing lab-grown astonauts. i don't think macdonalds would have a vested interest in this though.
exactly....i'm chinese too. the reason why people might have the impression chinese are short, is because a lot of chinese from the past generation were malnourished due to poverty, and that stunted their growth. i'm taller than both my parents, so it surely isn't genetic.
;)
i'm still slightly shorter than the average chinese male here though....so i think i'd have been shot by mistake had i been involved in the liberation of machuria
yea i got the first post so kiss my sweet nigger ass honey.
how is the parent post a troll? this is one of the most insightful posts i've read in a while. perhaps it hits the truth too closely for some US-centric moderator to stomach. sheesh....grow up and quit whining. the fact is that the US is quickly losing its competitive edge due to widespread affluence which has bred arrogance and complacency.
i listen to mp3s all the time and i can still tune my guitar or violin as accurately as an electronic tuner. sounds like that article was written by a conspiracy-theorists + audiophile pseudo-scientist.
one of the links mentioned that the sonic cruiser would reduce flight times by about 15% to 20% though...not 50%. if it did reduce the flight times by 50%, chances are they would not have shelved it since the benefits would be more substantial.
"Let's realize that they haven't factored in the cost of 52X certified media"
one thing i haven't really quite figured out is why the cdr media has to be "certified" up to a certain speed. the same way cars that can go faster have to make up for the increased speed with better tyres, aerodynamics, etc, shouldn't the increase in rotational speed of the cdrw drive be made up for by a stronger laser to make up for the decreased amount of time the cdr media is exposed to the laser?
don't mean to start another technical debate but i can't seem to figure this one out.
i'm a windows user, and i don't consider myself clueless. i don't use linux because the only things i use my computer for is browsing the internet, gaming, and reading slashdot. i would help someone else, whether he or she was a linux, windows, or mac user.
elitism stinks.
nice story, and congrats to the guy, but i did find the mac elitism a bit annoying. if he had approached me for help and i was able to help him, i wouldn't bother if he was a mac or pc user.
i agree. worse still, the danger the wearable airbag poses should it inflate when its not supposed to would be immense. will the company be held liable in such an event?
true....the quality of some rips are decent, but still the average divx rip beats them. not only is the quality of the average divx rip better, the resolution is usually rather high, in the 700 x 300 ballpark, whereas SVCD rips are usually approximately 300 x 200.
with the divx rips, you can blow it up to full screen, and it still looks good.
you gotta know which kind of rips to download. always download the divx encoded DVD rip of movies; those have the best quality, and are sometimes indistinguishable from the original DVD itself. there are some divx-encoded DVD rips that are split into two 600-700 meg files, and the quality is akin to a 256kbit/sec mp3. when i say indistinguishable, i mean it. you can play the oringinal DVD side by side with it, and you -cannot- tell the difference at all.
never download those SVCD rips or divx encoded VCD rips. you can usually tell because the former are in mpeg format, and the latter are usually only a few hundred megs, as compared to about 700 megs for a DVD ripped divx movie.
in my experience, the rips with the best quality are those from sharereactor.
someone please mod the parent up, and mod the parent of the parent down.
its high time people faced the reality that pot is less harmful than either tobacco or alcohol. stupid jokes by the uninformed are NOT funny.
this is interesting....i know this is a little off-topic, but i've been having a problem with my geforce2 and geforce4 graphics cards having a redish tint to it. i can adjust it through the nvidia drivers, but when i try to play games it changes back to the default settings which give it a reddish tint, and its very annoying. do you have any idea how to go about setting a permanent colour tweak in the bios or something?
he's not an idiot. he represents the average computer user, and the average computer user would be unable to install linux on his/her own.
i guess you fit into the anal-retentive fuckwit category.
well the irony kinda stings i think. perhaps the dot-com bubble burst was some form of fore-shadowing of the fate of electronic news.
blind people don't make up the majority of internet users. if they did, i think the advertising companies would find some way to market their ads to the blind people, and blind people would no longer not have to hear/feel the ads.
its the same reason why countries with conscription exempt individuals who are not physically fit from serving in the military. do the same rules apply to the minority? of course not. if 90% of the country's population was physically unfit, with back problems and such, then i think the country's government would have to review its conscription criteria or policies.
i would mod you up if i had the points and didn't already participate in this discussion :)
sorry for the assumption i made about blind people and the web, but i still feel that there should be some way or another to expose them to ads, if possible.
i suppose at the moment blind people kinda get away with not having ads, as they're still the minority when compared to the rest. but should blind people suddenly make up 80% of the people using the web, then i think companies would find some way to get their ads to them.
show me some links, and show me some proof that those devices are in widespread usage by throngs of blind people to access the web, then maybe your rebuttal might hold some weight with me.
i can't possibly fathom a way a pop-up or website might manifest itself on a braille pad to the same effect as on a computer monitor.
text to speech? fine, then the pop-up ad should be read out in the background whilst the main content of the website is being read out. any attempt by the blind person to purposely cancel out the background "pop-up" ad would be theft.
like i said to another poster, poke holes in my logic, not my examples and analogies. clearly, you don't have much of a case against me.
"But most sites offer an alternative form of payment."
most, not all. what if the website you're visiting only has pop-ups for ads? in that case, the pop-up ads would be the only source of revenue for them and by blocking those ads, you would be in effect stealing the right to view the content on the site.
"And plus, like an earlier poster pointed out, people who block pop-up ads are sure as hell not going to disable them to see a website."
of course they're not. a burglar is sure as hell not going to return a wallet full of cash he stole from some poor sod. does that mean the burglar is in the right?
"And even if they did, do you really think they'd click on them!?"
i don't think they'll click on them. the number of people who actually click on ads are the sparse minority. all that you have to do is look at the ad. that's all. you don't have to click on it, you don't have to buy the products, and you don't have to sell your soul to view the website's content.
like i mentioned in another post, if pop-ups were frequently used for purposes other than for showing ads then fine, block pop-ups. but since everyone here knows that pop-ups are almost always used for showing ads, then blocking ads with that knowledge in mind is as good as stealing. its comparable to leaving bricks in the middle of the highway. since you know that the bricks in the middle of the highway is very likely to cause a serious car accident, then placing the bricks in the middle of the highway should be a crime.
"Except nobody told me I had to listen to a salesman to get a 30% discount."
ok, i didn't specify that, but my analogy is that you agree to listen to a salesman to get that 30% discount.
if websites used pop-ups for other stuff, then fine, there's nothing wrong with blocking pop-ups. the problem is, most people know that pop-ups are 99.9% of the time used for showing ads. blocking ads with that in mind, is as good as stealing the content on the websites, in my opinion.
no offence, but poke holes in my logic instead of my analogies.
there's no such thing as braille computer monitors (as far as i know), so i'll go out on a limb and assume that if you're blind, you won't be able to see the content on the websites, much less navigate the web.
since you're blind and therefore don't have access to the content on the sites, then there's no way you can steal the content.
actually i do agree with you. i've had my fair share of killer pop-ups, and those are blatant cases of java or html exploits that border on malicious.
:p its just that the whole "free beer" mentality that some /. posters subscribe to gets at me sometimes.
those usual pop-ups you get at geocities or other web-hosting services is ok with me, and i think blocking them out would be rather unethical, since that's where they get the money to recoup their losses or make profits.
i guess its my fault that i didn't state clearly in my original post which kind of pop-up ads i was referring to. my bad
because if you do, the 30% discount you enjoyed would be something you didn't deserve to have, since "payment" for that 30% discount was to hear out the salesman's sales pitch.