So you think that pro bush catholic hispanics are more likly to use diebold voting systems in florida? Do you have ANYTHING to back up the rampling hypothesis or did you just not read the article?
No they cant. Not realy. Here in CA there was enough outrage that the state is sueing diebold. However we still used their systems for the vote because some one higher up in the state gov' decided it was a good idea (no idea if palms where greased here).
I work and live in the Bay Area. The job market here sucks. Sure I have a job and I see other openings out there, but the pay scale is way to low to afford to live here. The average house costs 600k while the average job pays 50k. I may not be the best in the world at math, but this isn't realy high level theoretical mathematics either. I guess I could look at it as the job market is doing better but the rest of the economy sucks, but that wont realy solver anything. In addition I still see way too many talented people with and without degrees working joe jobs. So things cant be all that great.
"Once again, a case of politicians that can't grasp the concept of a transnational entity that doesn't fit into their neat little system of sovereign nation states.
Once again a slashdot reader that failes to read the summary much less the FA. This is a bill to STOP taxs on the internet. Does that fit into your world view?
I see nothing here that my current Nokia cant do. Is Linux realy that much better a choice then Symbian? Windows and PlamOS I'll grant you due to the whole stylus problem.
I've not had the chance as it wasn't there when I did the comparison and picked the Rio. I've heard good things about it and if anything it shows that Apple is starting to feel the pressure to add features that people want. I realy dont see the point in a hard disk media player without a lossless compression option.
However, even with the new formats I still feel that the Karma wins. The sound quality was much better when I compared the two and the EQ in the Rio hardware is top notch. I find it interesting that Apple dosn't even list the acustic range in the specs for the iPod.
"That's funny, here I thought it was because it was the franchise most likely to inspire morbidly obese men to don skin-tight clothing and prostheses."
You've never been to an Anime con have you? Just picture that same obese guy with two days beard growth wearing a sailor moon outfit. I like Anime and have been to one con. I will never go to one again, I still feel unclean.
They have a good interface. The MP3 playback is average and lacking in features such as gapless playback. I for one dont care as much about the interface as I do about the sound quality. I mean, I press play and then listen for half an hour. If your using the interface more then your listing to the music there's somthing wrong. The main reason I went with the Rio Karma over the iPod or Zen is that I like clasical music. The lack of a good lossless audio format and lower quality sound (I did side by side comparisons) made me pick the Rio even though they have some quality problems (got a three year warrenty and have had zero problems with mine, but I know that others have had disk failures etc).
In releated news, due to piss poor QA you HAVE to install Counter Strike if your trying to install HL2 off of the retail CDs. If you dont select Counter Strike (which is on disk five) the installer will look for the final file "hl2.ico1" on disk four and not find it (because its not there) forcing you out of the installer after swapping four disks. If the game wasn't so good I'd be REALY pissed off, as it stands I just take my aggression out on head crabs.
Check me on this. Did you try to install without selecting Counter Strike? With the retail CDs you HAVE to install Counter Strike or the intaller will look for the hl2.ico1 file in the fourth CAB file rather then the fifth. That was a fun thing for me to figure out. Took all night.
I will never understand why we passed Proposition 71 which calls for three billion in bonds over the next few years to fund stem cell reasearch given that our state is broke. Ah well, I dont drive so I guess I dont much care.
"Guns are legal in america and the problem of people shooting one another was 'solved' by making this practise illegal."
Boy, thank God no one ever got shot in the US since they passed that law.
In truth what your talking about would be leaving the phones alone and passign a law saying that you cant take peoples pictures without their permission. Which in fact we allready have.
"I don't know, seems to work just fine for me on Windows. Maybe you should upgrade from that 128mb of RAM you're using on XP?;)"
I've got a gig in my main XP box and iTunes runs slow. Runs fine on my Macintosh however. Not sure what causes the performance problems, but they are well documented even if not everyone sees them.
However, since I have a Rio Karma I dont REALY care too much. iTunes is nice but I just dont like the limiations of the iPod (no Ogg, Flac or gapless playback).
Does it run as poorly as it does on Windows? Also, are you required to install the nagware called Quick Time? If not then how about a Windows port of Wine so I can run iTunes without QT or the performance problems?
"Dont blame Verizon then, you think they actually themselves are digging the wells? Blame it on stupid sub-contractors."
Why not blame Verizon for hiring these monkeys? Lowest bidder is not allways the best choice. When given the option of useing reputable contractors or Cletus the gapped tooth back hoe operator I would use the people with a good track record, even if Cletus is willing to work for road kill.
"Verizon crews installing fiber optic lines have hit nearly 200 water and sewer lines, costing almost $103,000 in repairs."
This takes incompetence to a whole new level. I mean, its just a cable. I've installed lots of local and wide area networks without hitting even one sewer line.
"Microsoft has already solved this particular problem with SUS (Software Update Services): you can change which server the Windows (W2K and up) machines on your network use to query and download updates from and make it one that you administer, which lets you manage/filter the updates available from Microsoft's website. (thus preventing users from downloading/installing a particular update that breaks a particular application)
Also, didn't RedHat's RHN provide something similar, where you could have up2date query a server under your organization's control instead of RedHat's, thus providing the same feature?"
This only solves the internal distrabution problem, an admin still needs to take the time to review the patches and test for instances where there are problems. There have allways been tools for getting the updates/patches out to the desktop. However checking for problems and being able to roll back an update is a major problem.
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So you think that pro bush catholic hispanics are more likly to use diebold voting systems in florida? Do you have ANYTHING to back up the rampling hypothesis or did you just not read the article?
No they cant. Not realy. Here in CA there was enough outrage that the state is sueing diebold. However we still used their systems for the vote because some one higher up in the state gov' decided it was a good idea (no idea if palms where greased here).
Becasue we have no say in the matter.
I work and live in the Bay Area. The job market here sucks. Sure I have a job and I see other openings out there, but the pay scale is way to low to afford to live here. The average house costs 600k while the average job pays 50k. I may not be the best in the world at math, but this isn't realy high level theoretical mathematics either. I guess I could look at it as the job market is doing better but the rest of the economy sucks, but that wont realy solver anything. In addition I still see way too many talented people with and without degrees working joe jobs. So things cant be all that great.
Once again a slashdot reader that failes to read the summary much less the FA. This is a bill to STOP taxs on the internet. Does that fit into your world view?
I see nothing here that my current Nokia cant do. Is Linux realy that much better a choice then Symbian? Windows and PlamOS I'll grant you due to the whole stylus problem.
But if he hooks up with the Umbrela Man when he grows up Paul Simon will write a light opera about his killing spree.
Eh? You can install Counter Strike without installing Half Life, but you can't install Half Life without Counter Strike.
However, even with the new formats I still feel that the Karma wins. The sound quality was much better when I compared the two and the EQ in the Rio hardware is top notch. I find it interesting that Apple dosn't even list the acustic range in the specs for the iPod.
You've never been to an Anime con have you? Just picture that same obese guy with two days beard growth wearing a sailor moon outfit. I like Anime and have been to one con. I will never go to one again, I still feel unclean.
They have a good interface. The MP3 playback is average and lacking in features such as gapless playback. I for one dont care as much about the interface as I do about the sound quality. I mean, I press play and then listen for half an hour. If your using the interface more then your listing to the music there's somthing wrong. The main reason I went with the Rio Karma over the iPod or Zen is that I like clasical music. The lack of a good lossless audio format and lower quality sound (I did side by side comparisons) made me pick the Rio even though they have some quality problems (got a three year warrenty and have had zero problems with mine, but I know that others have had disk failures etc).
In releated news, due to piss poor QA you HAVE to install Counter Strike if your trying to install HL2 off of the retail CDs. If you dont select Counter Strike (which is on disk five) the installer will look for the final file "hl2.ico1" on disk four and not find it (because its not there) forcing you out of the installer after swapping four disks. If the game wasn't so good I'd be REALY pissed off, as it stands I just take my aggression out on head crabs.
Check me on this. Did you try to install without selecting Counter Strike? With the retail CDs you HAVE to install Counter Strike or the intaller will look for the hl2.ico1 file in the fourth CAB file rather then the fifth. That was a fun thing for me to figure out. Took all night.
Are you talking about Apple or Creative? Both in my opinion are feature poor for the price.
I will never understand why we passed Proposition 71 which calls for three billion in bonds over the next few years to fund stem cell reasearch given that our state is broke. Ah well, I dont drive so I guess I dont much care.
Wait a second. Are you claiming that you heard him while reading his book? Did he tell you to do somthing? Like start fires?
Boy, thank God no one ever got shot in the US since they passed that law.
In truth what your talking about would be leaving the phones alone and passign a law saying that you cant take peoples pictures without their permission. Which in fact we allready have.
So you pass a law that makes all phones more anoying by having a manditory flash. Then do you outlaw the tape people will put over the flash?
The only thing I regret about the Karma is that the only case I could find is hand made by Vaja leather and cost 75$. Ah well, looks nice in its case.
I didn't think VNC could map firewire devices.
I've got a gig in my main XP box and iTunes runs slow. Runs fine on my Macintosh however. Not sure what causes the performance problems, but they are well documented even if not everyone sees them.
However, since I have a Rio Karma I dont REALY care too much. iTunes is nice but I just dont like the limiations of the iPod (no Ogg, Flac or gapless playback).
Does it run as poorly as it does on Windows? Also, are you required to install the nagware called Quick Time? If not then how about a Windows port of Wine so I can run iTunes without QT or the performance problems?
Why not blame Verizon for hiring these monkeys? Lowest bidder is not allways the best choice. When given the option of useing reputable contractors or Cletus the gapped tooth back hoe operator I would use the people with a good track record, even if Cletus is willing to work for road kill.
This takes incompetence to a whole new level. I mean, its just a cable. I've installed lots of local and wide area networks without hitting even one sewer line.
Also, didn't RedHat's RHN provide something similar, where you could have up2date query a server under your organization's control instead of RedHat's, thus providing the same feature?"
This only solves the internal distrabution problem, an admin still needs to take the time to review the patches and test for instances where there are problems. There have allways been tools for getting the updates/patches out to the desktop. However checking for problems and being able to roll back an update is a major problem.