I read as far as 'typo' and thought the joke was they meant 64KBps vs 64Kbps, which would be a typo and explain it.
64KBps=512Kbps, dunno if that's cd quality as I don't do wma unless it's embedded in some game I've played, though alot of those are starting to use ogg and mp3.
To me, all of the downsides you mentioned are vastly outweighed by a spirit of "give me something new and different"
But what about fm music, what justifies that? hint: if you find fm 'music' provides something new and/or something different you eigther live in a rare (from the us perspective anyway) area where the fm dial isn't owned by one big conglomerate, or you are very new to fm listening (most likely because of age) or have heard so precious little else as to have no basis of comparison. Or suffer some odd form of brain-damage.
I'm not a big music fan really, I don't know the names of everyone in all the big mega bands, I've paid for two or three concerts in my 34+ years of life, and the only band I've seen in person more than once (and paid the cover to see) includes 2 good friends of mine. And even I can tell that most fm muzak stations just regurgitate the same crap or variations thereof. And my musicaly inclined friends think MY tastse are too pedestrain and middle of the road ho-hum.
Unless you meant just in your area there are also oldies and country.
But yeah they pretty much play the same narrow slices of overplayed stuff. The local rock station has stretches of good stuff, but then it driffs back to modern and near modern top40-pablum.
This is why I mostly listen to one talk show (the station is mostly right wing junk, but the local guy is off the wall to serious to paranormal and a pretty good jog, esp when you consider he's a reformed lawyer). And some npr, but mostly sci-fri and such. Oh and Coast to Coast AM sometimes for fun.
But fm music? more like fm muzak, at best.
You make some intersting points. Except I find one humoursly circular and self feeding.
Use credit so you have a better credit rating so you can use more credit. I find it amazing that 'credit' ratings have become so all important, even if you don't live a lifestyle that needs significant credit, esp in relation to your ongoing expenses.
A trivial loan to someone without any established credit, but a good paying job and no debts, is gonna be very difficult and have a hugamoungus intrest. Why are people penalized in this society for NOT tending to live in debt? I don't get it (actually I do, it's more profitable, what I don't get is why people buy into this myth).
IOW: f*ck keeping up with the jones, when thier 75 and in a nursing home tied to bed because they owed 10years salary to 'the man' and got sick I'll still be getting by on what actually is good enough in most areas and few nice things where it's important to me.
Around here ATM's charge $.75 to $3.00 with the lower half of that range being most common.
However as NONE charge if you bank with atm's owner/sponser/whatever or if you are not a us resident. So I strongly suspect that's a matter of law not policy as everyone's atm's are the same and it's not only less proffitable, but adds complexity to the system.
So of course all YOU need to do is fly out here to do all your atm transactions:) (or maybe not), but if it's a federal law creating the distinction then should you visit the US you won't at least have to deal with LOCAL atm charges.
The protection from fraudulant usage of a cc (after the first $50 per incedent) that is mandated by law is specifically targetted at credit cards, not checking debit cards or stored value cards. So unless the law has changed you don't automatically get protection on your checking acount debit card.
Of course if Visa and/or Mastercard have implemented policy to extend such coverage then you get whatever is in the policy.
However as I understand the cards are issued by banks and other orgs and not directly by MC or Visa, but the structure there is not one I know much about.
It used to be a CC purchase would cost you extra, it was the merchant passing on what it cost him to accept cc's.
I was under the impression it was the CC companies that put a stop to this as it was a disincentive to using plastic. Of course they could have done with a few pet congresscritters as well as simply changing thier merchant agreements.
Only if his time is worthless. Most of us would not consider our time worthless.
Even at minimum wage (many of here are eigther in school or making considerably more than that, some both) $80 is only 16 hours.
And that's exactly what he said, he said in time he valued his losses at more than 8k. Now admittedly it's eigther hyperboly, or he values his time very highly or he's had a LOT of time spent fixing such issues or most likely some mix of the above.
To anyone else I do realize I've probably just fed a troll, but just in case someone really didn't get it.
Still even if they used about the same total power I don't think having both the computers and fences dependant on the same power supply makes much sense.
Especially considering the sudden variences in draw possible with an electric fence of that scale, imagine if one determined dino of good size managed to get stuck.
I know I'd want good isolation between a normal electric fence and a home lan's power system.
I think most theories involving the universe going through a period where space itself was expaning faster than light have it occuring for a short time early on.
It seems simple in all but the remote execution case to me.
If you have the machine that runs the code, you have the binary, and thus the gpl requires the source be made available to you.
It seems to me if it's using gpl'd code anywhere in the machine they are indeed distributing binaries when they distribute the machine.
I fail to see any difference of a meaningfull nature between code on a (flash)rom on a cd.
Of course I'm not a lawyer so there could be some braindamaged distiction written in some law or rulling somewhere. But such a thing would be false to fact imho.
I'm regurgitating vague memories here, but IIRC the controll room we normally saw was only the backup (with lots of manual controlls for what was normally automatic) The Doctor used for some reason related to his Tardis being a bit finicky.
The main controll room looked more like a den with nice dark woodwork and such with the controlls all in a center collum that had something that looked like a shaving mirror on top for a viewer and wooden cabinet doors over the few knobs needed during normal operation.
Actually IIRC the park was run on a network of some type. The problems were caused by the entire places power going down to reset them. (I find it odd that the fences were under the SAME fuse as the computers, a 110-220 voltish system running a few kilowats on the same circuit as those fences with killovolt and major wattage?!?)
A bit more precise answer would account for the expansion of the universe as well. We can see farther than c*AOU(age of universe) would imply as objects were closer once uppon a time. Even moreso if the universe went through a period of ftl expansion as some theorize.
Because it's a false distinction to say everyone must choose the same. Besides that it would stupid for everyone to just work one problem. While everyone's working on curing cancer et al folding at home we completly miss the aliens giving us 30 gooflack notice of intent to invade and the fact that there is a fatal flaw in current best/most popular encryption scheme used by banks and the statistical fluctuations that show our planet is gonna crash into the sun next year.
Tunnel vision is bad m'kay.
All it leaves out is that the vitamin suplement a vegan needs to be healthy is usually derived from animal sources.
Technically a few of the nutrients we need to be healthy CANNOT be gotten from purely plant sources and also cannot be derived from raw chemicals(yet) and thus must have an animal source.
A human requires both animal and plant foods to survive, and while with a carefull juggling act (simplified by vitamins and vitamin fortification of other foods and so on) it's possible to almost eliminate animal sources of nutrition, your essentially running the machine out of spec.
If one has a moral compunction about some or all aspects of modern animal food sources that's fine, but saying a 'purely' non animal food base is healthier than what the body is elvoved to use natively is like saying a car can run better with the wrong mix of gas/air and a different type of lubricant. You might make it work, but it's sub-optimal. Though fast food and the food choices made by many today is often even less healthy.
The ideal would be to find the mixture of foods that work best for you.
IIRC I've heard that there is some statistical link between blood type (just the a,b,ab,o part) and balance between plant and animal food, with type o having the strongest preferences for meats and ab the least.
The real problem is our tastes are geared to prefer things that used to be needed but rare so that we wouldn't short ourselves on critical nutrients easilly. Unfortunately we now can produce large amounts of the 'rare' foods easily and even produce the flavours in non-rare foods and our tastes haven't caught up so we tend to eat too much of foods that while necessary in smaller amounts are downright harmfull in large amounts.
Even if Bose had only one good idea, he still did better than most of us. Plus a good teacher, especially in the 'hard' subjects, isn't to be sneered at eigther. Not that you seemed to be putting him down.
I just helped a lady fix her computer because it was running really slowly sometimes.
My first thought on hearing the symptoms was of course a malware app as she admitted upfront she had no firewall or any real protection other than an out of date norton anti-virus.
I get there and do the obvious things and discover it's running slow only because it's borderline on ram and she was trying to edit to big a document on it with swap turned off somehow.
She's been online with the same install for about five years without doing anything to the system other than using it and ONCE clearing up some space on the hard-drive, and that just a day before calling me.
Her system? A pIII at 866mhz with 64megs ram and all integrated stuff (video, sound, modem and usb all on the motherboard) running windows ME. The least liked version of windows, no patches or updates or firewall or anything and hooked up to broadband so she could do her job (editing manuscripts and such). She's not a technical person eigther.
No broadband available. So If I can't get it on disk it has to be small.
I'll probably wait a while before trying it again. From what I saw it looked a bit young and unmatured yet, to much of what little was there wasn't very well integrated and it has issues other distros have gotten past.
If it's that simple then why the hell isn't that built into the install, or at least a readme in an obvious place or a config setting (ubuntu's config app is nearly useless).
I could understand if it was a rare thing, but needing to dual boot is the norm, not an exception, let alone rare.
Not trying to be negative on ubuntu, but it's a bit upsetting to have it fail on a standard item like that, and not even warn you it's incapable of handling normal stuff. Like buying a new car and the dealership doesn't bother to tell you it lacks a working reverse gear by design.
Just curious, how did you get Ubuntu to reliably burn disks? or was it just copying.
I tried Ubuntu 4.10/amd64 and it kept insisting half my iso images were acutally mp3's (based on an assumed mime type I couldn't find a way to change).
This in a addition to it's other glaring problems caused me to delete it.
I'm tempted to try the regular x86 version in the hopes it's better behaved (on the assumption the amd64 version is not as well done being newer), but I'm afraid I'll find it has the same problems.
I'd really like to have a working amd64 linux distro, but Ubuntu isn't what I'd call working yet.
You installed Ubuntu for amd64 and can boot something else? how did you manage that.
I tried installing it on the second hard drive, never once was anything said about boot options or the primary hard drive, yet it quite happilly overwrote the boot sector and set itself as the only thing to boot.
That and the fact that it couldn't keep straight what various file types were (I had a bunch of.iso files in one dir, none music cd's, yet it insisted that some were for burning to disc and some were mp3's, not mp3 cd's but actual.mp3 files, and gave me NO way to change these assumptions).
I did at one point try the 'expert' install, but that hit a point where it looped through the same 3 steps over and over again because I didn't want to set up a lan. Just because my mainboard (like most these days it seems) has built in ethernet doesn't mean a lan exists. If I couldn't give it valid networking info it would jump back about three steps or so and loop.
I was seriously dissapointed by the whole mess.
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I read as far as 'typo' and thought the joke was they meant 64KBps vs 64Kbps, which would be a typo and explain it.
64KBps=512Kbps, dunno if that's cd quality as I don't do wma unless it's embedded in some game I've played, though alot of those are starting to use ogg and mp3.
Mycroft
But what about fm music, what justifies that? hint: if you find fm 'music' provides something new and/or something different you eigther live in a rare (from the us perspective anyway) area where the fm dial isn't owned by one big conglomerate, or you are very new to fm listening (most likely because of age) or have heard so precious little else as to have no basis of comparison. Or suffer some odd form of brain-damage.
I'm not a big music fan really, I don't know the names of everyone in all the big mega bands, I've paid for two or three concerts in my 34+ years of life, and the only band I've seen in person more than once (and paid the cover to see) includes 2 good friends of mine. And even I can tell that most fm muzak stations just regurgitate the same crap or variations thereof. And my musicaly inclined friends think MY tastse are too pedestrain and middle of the road ho-hum.
Mycroft
Unless you meant just in your area there are also oldies and country.
But yeah they pretty much play the same narrow slices of overplayed stuff. The local rock station has stretches of good stuff, but then it driffs back to modern and near modern top40-pablum.
This is why I mostly listen to one talk show (the station is mostly right wing junk, but the local guy is off the wall to serious to paranormal and a pretty good jog, esp when you consider he's a reformed lawyer). And some npr, but mostly sci-fri and such. Oh and Coast to Coast AM sometimes for fun.
But fm music? more like fm muzak, at best.
Mycroft
You make some intersting points. Except I find one humoursly circular and self feeding.
Use credit so you have a better credit rating so you can use more credit. I find it amazing that 'credit' ratings have become so all important, even if you don't live a lifestyle that needs significant credit, esp in relation to your ongoing expenses.
A trivial loan to someone without any established credit, but a good paying job and no debts, is gonna be very difficult and have a hugamoungus intrest. Why are people penalized in this society for NOT tending to live in debt? I don't get it (actually I do, it's more profitable, what I don't get is why people buy into this myth).
IOW: f*ck keeping up with the jones, when thier 75 and in a nursing home tied to bed because they owed 10years salary to 'the man' and got sick I'll still be getting by on what actually is good enough in most areas and few nice things where it's important to me.
Mycroft
Around here ATM's charge $.75 to $3.00 with the lower half of that range being most common. :) (or maybe not), but if it's a federal law creating the distinction then should you visit the US you won't at least have to deal with LOCAL atm charges.
However as NONE charge if you bank with atm's owner/sponser/whatever or if you are not a us resident. So I strongly suspect that's a matter of law not policy as everyone's atm's are the same and it's not only less proffitable, but adds complexity to the system.
So of course all YOU need to do is fly out here to do all your atm transactions
Mycroft
The protection from fraudulant usage of a cc (after the first $50 per incedent) that is mandated by law is specifically targetted at credit cards, not checking debit cards or stored value cards. So unless the law has changed you don't automatically get protection on your checking acount debit card.
Of course if Visa and/or Mastercard have implemented policy to extend such coverage then you get whatever is in the policy.
However as I understand the cards are issued by banks and other orgs and not directly by MC or Visa, but the structure there is not one I know much about.
Mycroft
It used to be a CC purchase would cost you extra, it was the merchant passing on what it cost him to accept cc's.
I was under the impression it was the CC companies that put a stop to this as it was a disincentive to using plastic. Of course they could have done with a few pet congresscritters as well as simply changing thier merchant agreements.
Mycroft
Only if his time is worthless. Most of us would not consider our time worthless.
Even at minimum wage (many of here are eigther in school or making considerably more than that, some both) $80 is only 16 hours.
And that's exactly what he said, he said in time he valued his losses at more than 8k. Now admittedly it's eigther hyperboly, or he values his time very highly or he's had a LOT of time spent fixing such issues or most likely some mix of the above.
To anyone else I do realize I've probably just fed a troll, but just in case someone really didn't get it.
Mycroft
Still even if they used about the same total power I don't think having both the computers and fences dependant on the same power supply makes much sense.
Especially considering the sudden variences in draw possible with an electric fence of that scale, imagine if one determined dino of good size managed to get stuck.
I know I'd want good isolation between a normal electric fence and a home lan's power system.
Mycroft
I think most theories involving the universe going through a period where space itself was expaning faster than light have it occuring for a short time early on.
Mycroft
It seems simple in all but the remote execution case to me.
If you have the machine that runs the code, you have the binary, and thus the gpl requires the source be made available to you.
Mycroft
It seems to me if it's using gpl'd code anywhere in the machine they are indeed distributing binaries when they distribute the machine.
I fail to see any difference of a meaningfull nature between code on a (flash)rom on a cd.
Of course I'm not a lawyer so there could be some braindamaged distiction written in some law or rulling somewhere. But such a thing would be false to fact imho.
Mycroft
I'm regurgitating vague memories here, but IIRC the controll room we normally saw was only the backup (with lots of manual controlls for what was normally automatic) The Doctor used for some reason related to his Tardis being a bit finicky.
The main controll room looked more like a den with nice dark woodwork and such with the controlls all in a center collum that had something that looked like a shaving mirror on top for a viewer and wooden cabinet doors over the few knobs needed during normal operation.
Mycroft
You obviously haven't been to the same websites I used to get spam for.
Mycroft
Actually IIRC the park was run on a network of some type. The problems were caused by the entire places power going down to reset them. (I find it odd that the fences were under the SAME fuse as the computers, a 110-220 voltish system running a few kilowats on the same circuit as those fences with killovolt and major wattage?!?)
Mycroft
A bit more precise answer would account for the expansion of the universe as well. We can see farther than c*AOU(age of universe) would imply as objects were closer once uppon a time.
Even moreso if the universe went through a period of ftl expansion as some theorize.
Mycroft
Nope, I get them on stock 1.0 (unless you meant the devs are responsible for misstweaking the defaults).
Mycroft
Because it's a false distinction to say everyone must choose the same. Besides that it would stupid for everyone to just work one problem. While everyone's working on curing cancer et al folding at home we completly miss the aliens giving us 30 gooflack notice of intent to invade and the fact that there is a fatal flaw in current best/most popular encryption scheme used by banks and the statistical fluctuations that show our planet is gonna crash into the sun next year.
Tunnel vision is bad m'kay.
Mycroft
All it leaves out is that the vitamin suplement a vegan needs to be healthy is usually derived from animal sources.
Technically a few of the nutrients we need to be healthy CANNOT be gotten from purely plant sources and also cannot be derived from raw chemicals(yet) and thus must have an animal source.
A human requires both animal and plant foods to survive, and while with a carefull juggling act (simplified by vitamins and vitamin fortification of other foods and so on) it's possible to almost eliminate animal sources of nutrition, your essentially running the machine out of spec.
If one has a moral compunction about some or all aspects of modern animal food sources that's fine, but saying a 'purely' non animal food base is healthier than what the body is elvoved to use natively is like saying a car can run better with the wrong mix of gas/air and a different type of lubricant. You might make it work, but it's sub-optimal. Though fast food and the food choices made by many today is often even less healthy.
The ideal would be to find the mixture of foods that work best for you.
IIRC I've heard that there is some statistical link between blood type (just the a,b,ab,o part) and balance between plant and animal food, with type o having the strongest preferences for meats and ab the least.
The real problem is our tastes are geared to prefer things that used to be needed but rare so that we wouldn't short ourselves on critical nutrients easilly. Unfortunately we now can produce large amounts of the 'rare' foods easily and even produce the flavours in non-rare foods and our tastes haven't caught up so we tend to eat too much of foods that while necessary in smaller amounts are downright harmfull in large amounts.
Mycroft
Even if Bose had only one good idea, he still did better than most of us. Plus a good teacher, especially in the 'hard' subjects, isn't to be sneered at eigther. Not that you seemed to be putting him down.
Mycroft
I just helped a lady fix her computer because it was running really slowly sometimes.
My first thought on hearing the symptoms was of course a malware app as she admitted upfront she had no firewall or any real protection other than an out of date norton anti-virus.
I get there and do the obvious things and discover it's running slow only because it's borderline on ram and she was trying to edit to big a document on it with swap turned off somehow.
She's been online with the same install for about five years without doing anything to the system other than using it and ONCE clearing up some space on the hard-drive, and that just a day before calling me.
Her system? A pIII at 866mhz with 64megs ram and all integrated stuff (video, sound, modem and usb all on the motherboard) running windows ME. The least liked version of windows, no patches or updates or firewall or anything and hooked up to broadband so she could do her job (editing manuscripts and such). She's not a technical person eigther.
Mycroft
No broadband available. So If I can't get it on disk it has to be small.
I'll probably wait a while before trying it again. From what I saw it looked a bit young and unmatured yet, to much of what little was there wasn't very well integrated and it has issues other distros have gotten past.
Mycroft
If it's that simple then why the hell isn't that built into the install, or at least a readme in an obvious place or a config setting (ubuntu's config app is nearly useless).
I could understand if it was a rare thing, but needing to dual boot is the norm, not an exception, let alone rare.
Not trying to be negative on ubuntu, but it's a bit upsetting to have it fail on a standard item like that, and not even warn you it's incapable of handling normal stuff. Like buying a new car and the dealership doesn't bother to tell you it lacks a working reverse gear by design.
Mycroft
Just curious, how did you get Ubuntu to reliably burn disks? or was it just copying.
I tried Ubuntu 4.10/amd64 and it kept insisting half my iso images were acutally mp3's (based on an assumed mime type I couldn't find a way to change).
This in a addition to it's other glaring problems caused me to delete it.
I'm tempted to try the regular x86 version in the hopes it's better behaved (on the assumption the amd64 version is not as well done being newer), but I'm afraid I'll find it has the same problems.
I'd really like to have a working amd64 linux distro, but Ubuntu isn't what I'd call working yet.
Mycroft
Mycroft
You installed Ubuntu for amd64 and can boot something else? how did you manage that. .iso files in one dir, none music cd's, yet it insisted that some were for burning to disc and some were mp3's, not mp3 cd's but actual .mp3 files, and gave me NO way to change these assumptions).
I tried installing it on the second hard drive, never once was anything said about boot options or the primary hard drive, yet it quite happilly overwrote the boot sector and set itself as the only thing to boot.
That and the fact that it couldn't keep straight what various file types were (I had a bunch of
I did at one point try the 'expert' install, but that hit a point where it looped through the same 3 steps over and over again because I didn't want to set up a lan. Just because my mainboard (like most these days it seems) has built in ethernet doesn't mean a lan exists. If I couldn't give it valid networking info it would jump back about three steps or so and loop.
I was seriously dissapointed by the whole mess.
Mycroft