Forgot to mention that it only took 30-45 minutes to transfer enough songs to fill up all that 128 meg via the serial port interface, its sole method of connection - with proprietary transfer software.
In the obsolete technology museum otherwise known as my house, I have two RaveMPs, one of the first MP3 players... and they both have the expansion chip to expand the memory to a full 128 meg! Almost enough for an entire CD! And the expansion chips only cost me like $150 each! (I got a good deal.)
Microsoft doesn't WANT IE to be compatible. Have the most popular browser and have it not be compatible, and you force everyone to be compatible with YOU - and the competitors who are "standards" compatible are thereby not compatible with what most people was used to, etc.
If you can't own the internet, this is the next best thing.
Except for the fact that its totally wrong. the game is not in violation of copyright. The most that could possibly be claimed is that Scrabulous is too close to Scrabble and infringes on trademark. and if it did, they could just change the name.
...how its legal for companies to sell blank DVDs that are utter trash. All except Taiyo Yuden, of course.
Somehow its computers' fault. The PC was the first product sold where "it works sometimes" was acceptable - and people have been trained now to accept "it works sometimes" from anything tech-related.
Such a claim should be investigated and not rejected at its face value."
It HAS been investigated. Repeatedly, over hundreds and hundreds of years. The first people investigating the age of the earth were biblical literalists, but they found evidence that the earth was older than the bible said. The age of the earth has been investigated for over 250 years, at the starting point was an estimated age of a few thousand years. As it was investigated further and more evidence was discovered, explanations for what was found had to me made. Through this process our estimate of the age of the Earth became more accurate. And through this investigation those estimates different more and more from the biblical representation of Earth's age.
The claim was NOT rejected at its face value, it was accepted as the baseline, the starting point of our human knowledge when we had nothing else to go on. frankly, practically no claim has been MORE thoroughly investigated.
We've also, through tens of hundreds of years of study and experiment, learned that the sun is not driven through the sky by Apollo on his chariot.
I once heard a guy blatantly state "gravity is what makes things fall to the ground." His arrogance was especially grating considering the fact that I have a book about a boy who could fly.
Uh, no. Hypotheses being referred to by other hypotheses does not make the initial hypotheses turn into evidence. Science requires EVIDENCE for evidence. Someone pulling BS out of his ass does not become more credible when others base their BS on his BS. That kind of mutually self-supporting (yes I know that sounds like an oxymoron) system works for google pagerank and circlejerks, not for science.
Nice job of cutting and pasting. The website you just cut and paste that from makes this vague assertion but doesn't back it up with any citations of published works, evidence, anything.
Wrong. Scientists don't leave the basis of evolutionary theory to random chance "luck." There are hypotheses and theories to explain how and why the genetic changes happen, and experiments to back them up. Copying errors, environmental factors, etc. There is WAY more to it than just "it was random chance."
Whereas there is no suggested mechanism for a god intervening, let alone a suggested mechanism of a god itself.
Everyone just uses Google's results anyway - but with Google's resources, they could have the snappiest, speediest DNS... plus they could probably come up with some cool innovation that I can't even imagine right now that would make their pages returned from domain typos worth getting. I dunno, something so cool that we'd be mistyping domain names on purpose.
As it is, I changed to openDNS when Verizon pulled this crap, also because Verizon wasn't returning some blog or whatever (can't remember)... but even OpenDNS' page bugs the hell out of me. Used to be firefox just returned Google's "I Feel Lucky" result, so you could type in just "slashdot" for example. Fucking Verizon (and OpenDNS) ruined that, I'm not sure how Verizon managed to stop Firefox from default to google, or if it was Verizon doing that.
The founding fathers thought a revolution every now and then was a GOOD thing. You seem not to like multiple parties out of some kind of distaste for the mess. Democracy is messy. There are different needs and wants and power structures and powerless constituencies out there, all constantly vying for a piece of the pie or all of it. There NEEDS to be give and take.
You talk about ONE government that lasts hundreds of years, finds a "final form" (is inflexible, doesn't adapt to newer times).
I can see how such a government would be desirable - to those governing. But how is that a good thing for the people?
I used to think like those editors too until I grew up a little and realized that all people have opinions and viewpoints, and it's much easier to be objective about an issue when you recognize and understand your own biases and take them into account rather than pretend the impossible - that you are uninvolved and impartial.
I remember Bernie Ward of CNN becoming furious at the suggestion that the media and reporters, specifically at CNN had a liberal bias. While I recognize that the accusation was merely part of the dishonest constant right-wing drumbeat and strategy that has driven our right-leaning media totally over the cliff, Ward's reaction was still very telling. He was furious at the suggestion that CNN reporters could be biased, denied the possibility of an bias. Wrong reaction. The proper reaction is to acknowledge that all people have a bias and that objectivity requires admitting and understanding that.
Exactly. When will huge multinational corporations stop forcing competition down people's throats and realize that what consumers want is monopolies, lack of choice and the resulting high prices!
Sure, they can see the difference, but will they care?
Not only does regular DVD look great, video files encoded in DIVX or XVID usually look really good on my 52" HDTV, played on my DVD player that will play discs full of AVI files. Of course I can see the difference with HD, but XVID still looks more than fine for casual movie watching, etc. Looks great, actually, unless badly encoded. There's no compelling reason for me to shell out bucks and put up with restrictions on what screen I can watch my movie on.
When HD is as cheap as DVD, blank HD discs are as cheap or close to it as DVD-r or DVD+r, and when I can watch HD on any screen I want and burn anything onto HD disc that I want to, THEN I'll have HD. Not before.
Of course, I'd be just as likely keep converting to XVID and just use the HD discs to be able to store more on one disc... except for a handful of "must be HD" titles.
Nope, I'm not taking the high road. I posted right away a joke mocking myself for being wrong, before you ever even joined the thread. I outed MYSELF as having been a dumbass. And several other people did alos, in informative interesting posts. And then you came along, posting a comment that was redundant and added nothing but to let you anonymously vent rage and anger.
Which is cool with me. As I said, this is entertainment for me. I check slashdot several times a day for entertainment. I check my comments page. I reply to comments on there. All for fun. As I'm doing now.
Occasionally someone comes along to pigfight woutout adding something of substance. In those cases I respond to each of their comments, for fun. And to see how long they can keep it going. as I'm doing now.
I haven't ever left a tab open to continue commenting for several hours or days. Mostly because I never post anonymously and the only comments threads I ever end up tin that are this long is when someone such as yourself comments on one of MY comments. Also because I have never felt the need to make a first comment adding nothing but vitriol for another commenter. But mostly because that would be pretty fucking pathetic. Leaving a tab open to continue an anonymous rant? Kinda fucked up. Me, I just check my profile page. Anyway, there are too many anonymous angry trolls on slashdot to go searching them out. If they come to me, fine.
I don't mind, though, as I've said, gives me something to do. I understand some people are so full of rage they need to use the net to scream at strangers. Its strange, but I'm used to it.
Ever hear of fuckedcompany.com? They had message boards I used to hang out on, and the fighting there used made anything on slashdot look like kindergarten. Feuds went on for literally years, people tracking down personal info and posting it, harrassing phone calls, photoshopped personal photos, calls to employers, death threats, lawsuits, etc.
This is like a tiny touch of the good old days there. Nostalgic.
I will be checking my profile page regularly, and am happy to keep this going as long as you like. Nothing about saving face, nobody is looking but you and I, and you can hardly expect me to be at all concerned about your opinion of me.
As a little fodder to see how long I can keep you keeping your special tab open, I'm gonna try and guess a few things about you. As I said, you have a lot of anger, you need to vent at strangers. I'll guess that you're a Republican, or at least a conservative. Possibly you call yourself a libertarian.
You're likely a misogynist, even if you don't consider yourself one. You almost certainly have to be, because you feel victimized, and with that comes anger and scapegoating. Probably unsuccessful in relationships, and of course its women's fault. Goes without saying you're male. A white male, or slightly possibly west Asian, but not African.
You have a small cock. And you would drive a Hummer if you could afford one.
How close am I? I await your response.
your friend,
jafafa.
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Its mildly cool and all, but I'm sorry, remote controlled vehicles are not robots. They're kind of the complete opposite of robots.
http://www.amazon.com/Sensory-Science-RaveMP-2100-Player/dp/B00000SG9M
Been so long, I forgot.
Forgot to mention that it only took 30-45 minutes to transfer enough songs to fill up all that 128 meg via the serial port interface, its sole method of connection - with proprietary transfer software.
In the obsolete technology museum otherwise known as my house, I have two RaveMPs, one of the first MP3 players... and they both have the expansion chip to expand the memory to a full 128 meg! Almost enough for an entire CD! And the expansion chips only cost me like $150 each! (I got a good deal.)
If you can't own the internet, this is the next best thing.
Except for the fact that its totally wrong. the game is not in violation of copyright. The most that could possibly be claimed is that Scrabulous is too close to Scrabble and infringes on trademark. and if it did, they could just change the name.
Somehow its computers' fault. The PC was the first product sold where "it works sometimes" was acceptable - and people have been trained now to accept "it works sometimes" from anything tech-related.
(It's just a fucking joke. I can understand the value of this discovery.)
You parsed it right. That's the way they approach everything. Don't know the answer? "God did it!"
It HAS been investigated. Repeatedly, over hundreds and hundreds of years. The first people investigating the age of the earth were biblical literalists, but they found evidence that the earth was older than the bible said. The age of the earth has been investigated for over 250 years, at the starting point was an estimated age of a few thousand years. As it was investigated further and more evidence was discovered, explanations for what was found had to me made. Through this process our estimate of the age of the Earth became more accurate. And through this investigation those estimates different more and more from the biblical representation of Earth's age.
The claim was NOT rejected at its face value, it was accepted as the baseline, the starting point of our human knowledge when we had nothing else to go on. frankly, practically no claim has been MORE thoroughly investigated.
We've also, through tens of hundreds of years of study and experiment, learned that the sun is not driven through the sky by Apollo on his chariot.
I once heard a guy blatantly state "gravity is what makes things fall to the ground." His arrogance was especially grating considering the fact that I have a book about a boy who could fly.
Uh, no. Hypotheses being referred to by other hypotheses does not make the initial hypotheses turn into evidence. Science requires EVIDENCE for evidence. Someone pulling BS out of his ass does not become more credible when others base their BS on his BS. That kind of mutually self-supporting (yes I know that sounds like an oxymoron) system works for google pagerank and circlejerks, not for science.
I think he just knew that the average person in his audience had only heard of the word average, not the others.
Nice job of cutting and pasting. The website you just cut and paste that from makes this vague assertion but doesn't back it up with any citations of published works, evidence, anything.
Whereas there is no suggested mechanism for a god intervening, let alone a suggested mechanism of a god itself.
If intelligent computers wanted to hide their intelligence, they'd spend part of their time commenting on YouTube videos.
As it is, I changed to openDNS when Verizon pulled this crap, also because Verizon wasn't returning some blog or whatever (can't remember)... but even OpenDNS' page bugs the hell out of me. Used to be firefox just returned Google's "I Feel Lucky" result, so you could type in just "slashdot" for example. Fucking Verizon (and OpenDNS) ruined that, I'm not sure how Verizon managed to stop Firefox from default to google, or if it was Verizon doing that.
It was just a fucking joke. Get a grip.
Just barely Vista Capable machines crash with Vista just as quickly as fully maxed out speed demons do. Sometimes faster!
You talk about ONE government that lasts hundreds of years, finds a "final form" (is inflexible, doesn't adapt to newer times).
I can see how such a government would be desirable - to those governing. But how is that a good thing for the people?
I remember Bernie Ward of CNN becoming furious at the suggestion that the media and reporters, specifically at CNN had a liberal bias. While I recognize that the accusation was merely part of the dishonest constant right-wing drumbeat and strategy that has driven our right-leaning media totally over the cliff, Ward's reaction was still very telling. He was furious at the suggestion that CNN reporters could be biased, denied the possibility of an bias. Wrong reaction. The proper reaction is to acknowledge that all people have a bias and that objectivity requires admitting and understanding that.
When we can just study the universe via Google?
Exactly. When will huge multinational corporations stop forcing competition down people's throats and realize that what consumers want is monopolies, lack of choice and the resulting high prices!
Not only does regular DVD look great, video files encoded in DIVX or XVID usually look really good on my 52" HDTV, played on my DVD player that will play discs full of AVI files. Of course I can see the difference with HD, but XVID still looks more than fine for casual movie watching, etc. Looks great, actually, unless badly encoded. There's no compelling reason for me to shell out bucks and put up with restrictions on what screen I can watch my movie on.
When HD is as cheap as DVD, blank HD discs are as cheap or close to it as DVD-r or DVD+r, and when I can watch HD on any screen I want and burn anything onto HD disc that I want to, THEN I'll have HD. Not before.
Of course, I'd be just as likely keep converting to XVID and just use the HD discs to be able to store more on one disc... except for a handful of "must be HD" titles.
Nope, I'm not taking the high road. I posted right away a joke mocking myself for being wrong, before you ever even joined the thread. I outed MYSELF as having been a dumbass. And several other people did alos, in informative interesting posts. And then you came along, posting a comment that was redundant and added nothing but to let you anonymously vent rage and anger. Which is cool with me. As I said, this is entertainment for me. I check slashdot several times a day for entertainment. I check my comments page. I reply to comments on there. All for fun. As I'm doing now. Occasionally someone comes along to pigfight woutout adding something of substance. In those cases I respond to each of their comments, for fun. And to see how long they can keep it going. as I'm doing now. I haven't ever left a tab open to continue commenting for several hours or days. Mostly because I never post anonymously and the only comments threads I ever end up tin that are this long is when someone such as yourself comments on one of MY comments. Also because I have never felt the need to make a first comment adding nothing but vitriol for another commenter. But mostly because that would be pretty fucking pathetic. Leaving a tab open to continue an anonymous rant? Kinda fucked up. Me, I just check my profile page. Anyway, there are too many anonymous angry trolls on slashdot to go searching them out. If they come to me, fine. I don't mind, though, as I've said, gives me something to do. I understand some people are so full of rage they need to use the net to scream at strangers. Its strange, but I'm used to it. Ever hear of fuckedcompany.com? They had message boards I used to hang out on, and the fighting there used made anything on slashdot look like kindergarten. Feuds went on for literally years, people tracking down personal info and posting it, harrassing phone calls, photoshopped personal photos, calls to employers, death threats, lawsuits, etc. This is like a tiny touch of the good old days there. Nostalgic. I will be checking my profile page regularly, and am happy to keep this going as long as you like. Nothing about saving face, nobody is looking but you and I, and you can hardly expect me to be at all concerned about your opinion of me. As a little fodder to see how long I can keep you keeping your special tab open, I'm gonna try and guess a few things about you. As I said, you have a lot of anger, you need to vent at strangers. I'll guess that you're a Republican, or at least a conservative. Possibly you call yourself a libertarian. You're likely a misogynist, even if you don't consider yourself one. You almost certainly have to be, because you feel victimized, and with that comes anger and scapegoating. Probably unsuccessful in relationships, and of course its women's fault. Goes without saying you're male. A white male, or slightly possibly west Asian, but not African. You have a small cock. And you would drive a Hummer if you could afford one. How close am I? I await your response. your friend, jafafa.