Ok... I've got a 300Mhz machine with 256mb of ram and 60GB of space, with a Matrox Marvel-200 Video Capture card I bought 2nd hand for $35, running on Win98SE, plugged into my cable. It records either by schedule or by listening for keywords in close captioning (for getting news of interest). it captures in Mjpeg at 720x480 30fps with no dropped frames, but since I usually burn VCD's for stuff I want to keep, I usually capture at 352x240 which gives me about 100-120 hours of recording space; the Matrox has video out so if I don't want to burn it, I can watch straight from the hard drive. With a copy of TMPEG thrown on to make the VCD's, it's a complete system aside from not stripping out the commercials, which I really don't care about anyway, and no remote. There. Done. now, what were you talking about?
Well, that actually was probably another thing you are thinking about,
whether people could form their own private armies. According to
U.S. Code, you most
likely are already a member of the militia, if you are between 16 and 46 years
old.
It ( U.S. Code) actually explains thing pretty completely.
As to the 2nd amendment, it's not written in current everyday language, it's
written using common Lawyer-speak of the 18th century; all you have to do to
find out EXACTLY what it means is read the
discussions written by the
people who composed the Constitution, they were very clear about what it meant.
Just as Wil is much cooler than weasley (even if he won't return my e-mails), Kirk is not in the same category as WFS and would never, ever employ a sonic attack of that nature.
That would ROCK. 2 more episodes, aside from what they have in the can already, leading up to the revelation that Wesley is behind it all. Then 2 more episodes leading up to the awesome screaming death of Crusher, as performed by the trio of Toupee Kirk, CGI ST:TOS Kirk, and a time traveling Wil Wheaton. I'd not only watch it, I'd kick in some money.
Welll..... I own 2 sets of the original blueprints, and have since they came out. I camped out in front of the theatre for ST:TMP tickets. This is just to set the stage for home much a Trek Fanatic I was. I refused to pay to see Nemisis because of the crappy way they treated WIl Wheaton. Wesley Crusher was an evil little twit, and they should have had him die of slow torture on Nemesis, But WIl seems very cool.
I started noticing what felt like buffeting on the rear end of my 70 'cuda around 110. I was considering adding some canards(?) once upon a time, to help in high speed turns.
The Back story: I had a Evil 6th grade Grammer teacher (at Raccoon Elementary school, Raccoon township, illinois) who insisted that unless you learned the predicates, prepositions, participles, etc, you could not survive in society. As I was reading Asimov & Niven at the time, and could write sentences that were completely understandable, I thought this was a load of crap. So, I didn't bother paying any attention whatsoever to grammer until 12th grade, and then managed to ace the tests while still ignoring homework, so received a bare passing grade. I continued on this course through college; I have everything credit-wise I need for 1 or 2 bachelors degrees except English Comp 1 & 2. To this day, whenever anyone starts talking about this crap, I only hear "blah, blah blah, blah blah blah". To make a long story less long, I must have stopped paying attention when that little gem was handed out. It does suck not being able to help my kids with their (woohoo!) homework in grammer.
I've never, ever posted one of these lame jokes before, I just couldn't help myself. BTW, I'm of the opinion that if there is a disease or imbalance, there is a natural/herbal treatment for it; we may not ever find it, but I bet it is their. Um. does anyone have a mnemonic for when to use "there" as opposed to "their" in a sentence? I've been having problems with it for like 30 years.
Push my kids into becoming professional liars? I think not. The United States is NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY SCREWING UP THE PLANET. There is no acceptable solution to maintaining the habitability of earth; mankind will slash & burn, pollute, drill, mine etc to increase it's standard of living as long as it's able. Earth will self-correct eventually, doing something fun like evolving a genocidal virus, flipping it's magnetic poles, massive ice age, getting hit with a few big rocks, whatever, and if we want our descendants to enjoy what we think of as an acceptable standard of living, we need to provide them with new places to slash, burn, mine & pollute. I suppose we could all become strict socialists, switch over to a hive mentaility, and initiate involuntary euthanisia & birth control, but then we wouldn't really have much point of existing, would we?
It may just be a symptom of my generation, but I really think
the reason we need a moon base is obvious.
I take it as a given that we need to establish a self-sufficient
human presence off of this planet; we are screwing this one up at a amazing
rate, and so many things exist that can destroy the race in a relatively short
period of time it's ridiculous; from Planet killer asteroids, to mutant Ebola,
to a new cold war, to killing all the plankton which produce the majority of our
oxygen... etc.
In order to have a self -sufficient human presence in space, raw
materials are going to be necessary; it's stupid to boost all the construction
materials out of the earth's gravity well, when we can just mine the moon;
alternately, I could see
towing a asteroid
to a
LaGrange point, but that's possibly beyond us currently.
Once we have the moon, we have it all; a electromagnetic
catapult
to put processed raw materials back into orbit or shoot them to the earth would
easily pay off the cost of putting a base there. The only problem I can see
would be water, if ice turns out to not exist at the poles as some think (I
don't); the easy availability of selenium, and abundant Solar power, should make
making our own water out of elemental H & O a snap.
And, the best argument; President-for-life Bush will be able to
drop gigantic canisters of rock anywhere on the planet he wants to suppress
dissidents terrorists! peace in our time!.
Which is why I'm encouraging my kids to either pursue mechanical
engineering or aerospace tech; I want them OFF this planet as soon as its
possible.
I would have said freenet, but the various FITH developers have taken all the joy out of using it, especially FROST.
Overnet. I see 1,032,192 users; a search for REO Speedwagon reveals 157 hits; the users and files on the network are higher than ever, most likely because of how & spyware filled gnutella apps have become.
Note: win installing Overnet, disable your internet connection to keep from downloading the optional spyware.
I really hate to do this to my poor little server, but if you still have your spy kids 3d glasses, and / or want to see the beginning of the latest "life on mars" craze, check out this page I just put up:
I've still got my 1997 external Parallel Zip drive, and use it on a relatively frequent basis; only had 1 disk go bad, and that was after it fell out the window of the car during a high speed turn.
I know about the regular one, but what's the secret "administrator" account? I'm kinda curious. Being a MCSE and all, shouldn't they have told me when I got the implant & swore the blood oath?
I really can not understand that. I'm constantly being amazed at the amount of crap the Brits are putting up with; the spy cameras everywhere, the banning of the right to self defense, etc. I always thought of the Monarchy / royals in the same way I think of the U.S. right to call a constitutional convention; if the elected liars, spin doctors, and appointed idiots get too much out of hand, you have a last resort short of just shooting them to straighten things out. The Royals not only have the technical right, but the sworn duty to kick the existing administrators out if they are screwing up too much. In the U.S. we have to get a majority of the population to actually DO SOMETHING in order to change governments.
Doesn't every fucking person he's supposed to work for, AKA the english peoples, hate blair? is he representing anyone besides himself and a couple of corporations? I saw elsewhere that the Queen would get deposed if she fired him, or started actually trying to cool his jets; WHY? If we had a royal family there would be a mile long line of 10' stacked mailbags at the castle door asking them to fire Bush.
I've had (and still have an old Fast Movie Machine Pro (ISA, 1994)) that won't quit; TV/video on screen and captures 320x240 at 20fps, which is pretty awesome for 1994 tech. My main card is a Matrox Marvel-200; this is a AGPx2 card, does decent with games, and captures 720x480 at 30fps with absolutely no problems, in Win98 and Mandrake, and with a little work, in Win2k. It will also listen in on close captioning for keywords and start recording when it hears one, do recording by a schedule, etc. If it was more than a 16mb card, I never would have gotten a Geforce2, but morrowind just wouldn't play.
I was going to point out how full of it you were, when I discovered you were apparently right. Supposedly it "Tele Aid", primarily used in Mercedes. Since this probably wasn't around before the.com crash, most/. readers shouldn't be concerned.
I bet if you gave him enough supplies, a place to sit, and a way to possibly get back, he would jump all over it. However, I think the currently missing craft would require a convicted spammer as pilot.
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I've got a 300Mhz machine with 256mb of ram and 60GB of space, with a Matrox Marvel-200 Video Capture card I bought 2nd hand for $35, running on Win98SE, plugged into my cable.
It records either by schedule or by listening for keywords in close captioning (for getting news of interest). it captures in Mjpeg at 720x480 30fps with no dropped frames, but since I usually burn VCD's for stuff I want to keep, I usually capture at 352x240 which gives me about 100-120 hours of recording space; the Matrox has video out so if I don't want to burn it, I can watch straight from the hard drive.
With a copy of TMPEG thrown on to make the VCD's, it's a complete system aside from not stripping out the commercials, which I really don't care about anyway, and no remote.
There. Done. now, what were you talking about?
Well, that actually was probably another thing you are thinking about, whether people could form their own private armies. According to U.S. Code, you most likely are already a member of the militia, if you are between 16 and 46 years old.
It ( U.S. Code) actually explains thing pretty completely.
As to the 2nd amendment, it's not written in current everyday language, it's written using common Lawyer-speak of the 18th century; all you have to do to find out EXACTLY what it means is read the discussions written by the people who composed the Constitution, they were very clear about what it meant.
Just as Wil is much cooler than weasley (even if he won't return my e-mails), Kirk is not in the same category as WFS and would never, ever employ a sonic attack of that nature.
That would ROCK.
2 more episodes, aside from what they have in the can already, leading up to the revelation that Wesley is behind it all.
Then 2 more episodes leading up to the awesome screaming death of Crusher, as performed by the trio of Toupee Kirk, CGI ST:TOS Kirk, and a time traveling Wil Wheaton.
I'd not only watch it, I'd kick in some money.
I watched the first couple of shows, then got bored. I accidentally watched this season 1st ep, and got hooked; it seems very TOS-like.
William Shatner wants to appear on Enterprise; they should let him, every trekker would tune in.
Put Wil Wheaton on the next week (maybe let Kirk kill Wesley Crusher? ahh, the visuals), that's another additional 200,000 viewers above normal.
Kill the time-travel aspect after that, it sucks.
Welll.....
I own 2 sets of the original blueprints, and have since they came out. I camped out in front of the theatre for ST:TMP tickets.
This is just to set the stage for home much a Trek Fanatic I was.
I refused to pay to see Nemisis because of the crappy way they treated WIl Wheaton.
Wesley Crusher was an evil little twit, and they should have had him die of slow torture on Nemesis, But WIl seems very cool.
I liked Jake 2.0, but it was always on opposite shows I watch religiously.
Ahh, the days of Operation Sundevil.
The first attempt by the JBT's to appear like they had something resembling a clue.
I started noticing what felt like buffeting on the rear end of my 70 'cuda around 110.
I was considering adding some canards(?) once upon a time, to help in high speed turns.
Thats Insane!
But, it just. might. work.
The Back story: I had a Evil 6th grade Grammer teacher (at Raccoon Elementary school, Raccoon township, illinois) who insisted that unless you learned the predicates, prepositions, participles, etc, you could not survive in society. As I was reading Asimov & Niven at the time, and could write sentences that were completely understandable, I thought this was a load of crap.
So, I didn't bother paying any attention whatsoever to grammer until 12th grade, and then managed to ace the tests while still ignoring homework, so received a bare passing grade.
I continued on this course through college; I have everything credit-wise I need for 1 or 2 bachelors degrees except English Comp 1 & 2.
To this day, whenever anyone starts talking about this crap, I only hear "blah, blah blah, blah blah blah".
To make a long story less long, I must have stopped paying attention when that little gem was handed out.
It does suck not being able to help my kids with their (woohoo!) homework in grammer.
4. ??
5. Profit!
I've never, ever posted one of these lame jokes before, I just couldn't help myself.
BTW, I'm of the opinion that if there is a disease or imbalance, there is a natural/herbal treatment for it; we may not ever find it, but I bet it is their.
Um. does anyone have a mnemonic for when to use "there" as opposed to "their" in a sentence? I've been having problems with it for like 30 years.
Push my kids into becoming professional liars? I think not.
The United States is NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY SCREWING UP THE PLANET.
There is no acceptable solution to maintaining the habitability of earth; mankind will slash & burn, pollute, drill, mine etc to increase it's standard of living as long as it's able.
Earth will self-correct eventually, doing something fun like evolving a genocidal virus, flipping it's magnetic poles, massive ice age, getting hit with a few big rocks, whatever, and if we want our descendants to enjoy what we think of as an acceptable standard of living, we need to provide them with new places to slash, burn, mine & pollute.
I suppose we could all become strict socialists, switch over to a hive mentaility, and initiate involuntary euthanisia & birth control, but then we wouldn't really have much point of existing, would we?
It may just be a symptom of my generation, but I really think the reason we need a moon base is obvious.
I take it as a given that we need to establish a self-sufficient human presence off of this planet; we are screwing this one up at a amazing rate, and so many things exist that can destroy the race in a relatively short period of time it's ridiculous; from Planet killer asteroids, to mutant Ebola, to a new cold war, to killing all the plankton which produce the majority of our oxygen... etc.
In order to have a self -sufficient human presence in space, raw materials are going to be necessary; it's stupid to boost all the construction materials out of the earth's gravity well, when we can just mine the moon; alternately, I could see towing a asteroid to a LaGrange point, but that's possibly beyond us currently.
Once we have the moon, we have it all; a electromagnetic catapult to put processed raw materials back into orbit or shoot them to the earth would easily pay off the cost of putting a base there. The only problem I can see would be water, if ice turns out to not exist at the poles as some think (I don't); the easy availability of selenium, and abundant Solar power, should make making our own water out of elemental H & O a snap.
And, the best argument; President-for-life Bush will be able to drop gigantic canisters of rock anywhere on the planet he wants to suppress dissidents terrorists! peace in our time!.
Which is why I'm encouraging my kids to either pursue mechanical engineering or aerospace tech; I want them OFF this planet as soon as its possible.
I would have said freenet, but the various FITH developers have taken all the joy out of using it, especially FROST.
Overnet. I see 1,032,192 users; a search for REO Speedwagon reveals 157 hits; the users and files on the network are higher than ever, most likely because of how & spyware filled gnutella apps have become.
Note: win installing Overnet, disable your internet connection to keep from downloading the optional spyware.
Ditto. I didn't submit it as a topic, just posted in the last discussion: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=91495&cid=7873 622
SO which one of us was REALLY first?
Win2k professional.
The RAM is a little limited, but it'll still run fine.
or, you could try the MS-DOS 6.22 and Geoworks route...
I really hate to do this to my poor little server, but if you still have your spy kids 3d glasses, and / or want to see the beginning of the latest "life on mars" craze, check out this page I just put up:
http://www.changestorm.com/mars/
I've still got my 1997 external Parallel Zip drive, and use it on a relatively frequent basis; only had 1 disk go bad, and that was after it fell out the window of the car during a high speed turn.
I know about the regular one, but what's the secret "administrator" account? I'm kinda curious.
Being a MCSE and all, shouldn't they have told me when I got the implant & swore the blood oath?
I really can not understand that.
I'm constantly being amazed at the amount of crap the Brits are putting up with; the spy cameras everywhere, the banning of the right to self defense, etc.
I always thought of the Monarchy / royals in the same way I think of the U.S. right to call a constitutional convention; if the elected liars, spin doctors, and appointed idiots get too much out of hand, you have a last resort short of just shooting them to straighten things out.
The Royals not only have the technical right, but the sworn duty to kick the existing administrators out if they are screwing up too much. In the U.S. we have to get a majority of the population to actually DO SOMETHING in order to change governments.
Doesn't every fucking person he's supposed to work for, AKA the english peoples, hate blair? is he representing anyone besides himself and a couple of corporations? I saw elsewhere that the Queen would get deposed if she fired him, or started actually trying to cool his jets; WHY?
If we had a royal family there would be a mile long line of 10' stacked mailbags at the castle door asking them to fire Bush.
I just don't get it.
Hey, I'd buy it.
I'm curious; what is the watt limit for a CB in the UK? or do you prefer to express it in joules?
I've had (and still have an old Fast Movie Machine Pro (ISA, 1994)) that won't quit; TV/video on screen and captures 320x240 at 20fps, which is pretty awesome for 1994 tech.
My main card is a Matrox Marvel-200; this is a AGPx2 card, does decent with games, and captures 720x480 at 30fps with absolutely no problems, in Win98 and Mandrake, and with a little work, in Win2k.
It will also listen in on close captioning for keywords and start recording when it hears one, do recording by a schedule, etc.
If it was more than a 16mb card, I never would have gotten a Geforce2, but morrowind just wouldn't play.
I was going to point out how full of it you were, when I discovered you were apparently right. .com crash, most /. readers shouldn't be concerned.
Supposedly it "Tele Aid", primarily used in Mercedes.
Since this probably wasn't around before the
I bet if you gave him enough supplies, a place to sit, and a way to possibly get back, he would jump all over it.
However, I think the currently missing craft would require a convicted spammer as pilot.