o...how nice (sarcasm)....but you forgot one thing, it was the southern democrats who fought against ANY sort of equal rights (racially based ones) back in the 60's and back prior and around the Civil War. Then they got their asses wooped and they turned coat to avoid political backlash in a sense (from newly eligible voters) and became Southern "Republicans" 'cuz they didn't like what the Federal govt was making them do (states' rights issue); give equal rights to all.
Hell, it wasn't until 1995 that Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment (that abolishes slavery).
Of course all this doesn't mean I like EITHER democrats or republicans (or even the green party; quote from Nader in a SNL skit "They don't call us the Green Party for nothing"!). A republican president who was almost assassinated by a pretzel who did at least graduate from college vs a mono-toned automaton who couldn't even complete college.
(Kinda scary, huh? About our education system in more ways than one and not to mention pathetic for.....well.... you know who to be less "smart" than a pretzel victim)
Now, let's at least keep to the topic; Rambus, the Enron of the semiconductor industry. It's too bad Rambus or even Enron for that matter don't have an automatic lie-detector like Pinocchio.
Thank goodness. I thought I was the only one who noticed that GWB style math.
Even if Yahoo doesn't write it themselves, they can always do a check to see if it makes sense or they look like an a.s.s. (antiquated stupid slouch).
O well....it's California....(I gotta get the hell outta here)
I don't know who to blame again....the Recording Industry Ass. of America or the US Patent Office and their....well..."easily-dooped"-ability. (Maybe US stands for Ultra Stupid)
I wonder if I can patent a sperm delivery method using a revolutionary "new" tool to eliminate the need for using test tubes and petri dishes and even the collection of eggs prior to delivery. Or "a method of sperm collection using multiple mobile locations with one on one care." Jerry Springer, here I come.
Damn politicians.
Why can't they cut their salaries to a buck a year like the CEO of Cisco? (in addition, donate half their kickbacks^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign-contributions to help the state budget.)
Besides, just like there's no point in trying to repair a decrepit bridge with termite infested wood, increasing taxes to an already crappy economy doesn't help. It might backfire.
What my dad have always said when I tried to get my allowance when I was a kid comes to mind: "You can't get blood from a turnip."
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"We don't have what we don't have." -- DUH!
There have been nice PVR's in Japan for a while now (at least a year) that also interface with your computer via USB1.1/2.0 (I'm sure there's a firewire version too and maybe a networked one) so you can copy and backup recorded shows as well as program it from your computer (not just on the TV). You can "explore" the contents of the PVR as you would your hard drive and copy, cut, paste, delete, rename at pretty much, will.
Maybe it's 'cuz of the DMCA, which doesn't exist elsewhere. (And they wonder why OUR economy is in the sh!ts)
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"You can't get blood from a turnip" - My dad back when I was a kid asking him for money.
I still prefer my anime raw. And thx goodness I already have Trigun DVDs (R2). It cost me a fortune (though Excel Saga cost more).
Of course, subs are the lesser of two evils.
The thing I don't get is...in Japan, they air anime that has been translated into english in dual-language, aka SAP like how CBS and some other networks air soaps with Spanish on the Second Audio channel. They do this to Pokemon, Power Puff Girls, Beast Wars, etc. Hell....I know it can be done. I use to watch The A-team and it had SAP! Not only that, they can implement subtitles into closed-captioning ahead of time. This way, ppl can turn off and on subs as they please and listen to the japanese portion as they please.
As far as editing goes, I don't get it. I've seen worse on FOX! And the stuff on Adult Swim (non-anime) isn't any less raunchier. It makes anime look like a Buddhist monk and the other stuff like [insert city-name like Boston, etc. here] Catholic priests.
Don't know if you see the direct correlation between the two.
Because the drives aren't as reliable as their SCSI cousins, the warranty administration costs were too much to bear thus they cut the warranty down. That's Business 101. Cut expenses, especially ones that are huge. Think of it this way, why else would a company include a long warranty on a product unless they had at least some faith in the quality of it. It wouldn't be smart if one didn't. Hell, if Craftsman (renowned for their quality and lifetime warranty) were to sell tools made out of earwax instead of the good steel they use now, do you seriously think that they would include the same warranty on the product made out of earwax!?
MANY ppl claim their warranties when their hard drives so they have a working hard drive again (not for the data recovery). It's hard enough to lose the data but to also not have a drive because of a flaky warranty? That's a double-whammy.
Technology is always getting cheaper so the argument that warranties were reduced to coup with it are weaker than one would think.
You can even think of warranties as a bet that the manufacturer places that the product will not break. So reasonably and logically, if the manufacturer didn't have the same about of faith in one product, it would make business sense to have different terms in the warranty for it.
Besides, you, Mr. Anonymous Coward said it yourself that reducing warranties helps reduce warranty administration costs. One would have to think WHY were the administration costs were high enough to force them in the first place.
I don't know about the next man but for me, I've learned from experience that IDE drives aren't reliable (why else would a majority of the hard drive manufacturers reduce the warranty periods to "save money"?). Maybe it has to do with out of the 9 IBM hard drives I've had over the years, 6 of those "Death"-stars blew up in my face within the first year of getting them. Of course, IBM isn't the only one. WhoreD and MaxWhore as affectionately called by my circle of friends/victims have their share, too. The only good thing with WD and Maxtor unlike IBM is that those two have developed better warranty and customer services to promptly deal with it. (For which I am very grateful for, BTW). While I can get my WD and Maxtor drives RMA'ed, my IBM drives still there as paperweights as IBM points fingers to some other company and they point it back at IBM. (Though IBM should be accountable for the "quality" of their craftsmanship, they deny it).
And yes, even WITH the dead DEATHSTARS, my collective data pool is over a terabyte now. I'm just waiting on C-3D and Inphase Technologies and their 100+GB per disc storage medium. It's cheaper, more reliable, and the size of a CD.
Usually, Republicans are the ones in for the quick buck but from the looks of it, most of the Republicans on the list supported the Child Online Protection Act, which had a notable motive but wasn't executed right while most of the Democrats voted for the ones that had a monetary motive aka the right-to-buttf*ck-consumers-bills.
Hell, look at California's own Feinstein with almost $400,000. I voted against her every time and yet that b^Hwitch is still here. (same goes for the one b^Hwitch).
Thank god it's over!
And I'm referring to the cruel punishment that CN was doing to all the anime fans of the world by slaughtering and butchering anime and f*cking it up. Now if u want anime, go watch I-channel on Sundays (they air undubbed anime which are sometimes subtitled, though I don't like subs either at least they are better than dubs)
Awww...the benefits of being a bilingual. I gotta remind my parents how thankful I am (though when I was a kid, I hated speading my Saturdays in school).
The good: SCSI command set, ability to use more than 4 per controller per pci slot, can have drives externally using an old SCSI case and thus chain it outside of the main comp. case (finally, I can reuse my old NAS case) The bad : IDE drives are crappier than ever, so much so they most companies shortened the warranty periods to a year to save money, which in other words means, there were so many warranty returns that they were losing money. The ugliest: the Price, my budget, and lack of future funds, D'oh
Well, there's also SerialATA which does incorporate some benefits of the SCSI command set (so you can burn, rip, play CS all on the same computer at the same time....awww...the benefits of a SCSI burner). The only downside other than the limitation on the number of drives per controller for SerialATA is that there's no external configuration.....yet. With SCSI, you can have a second case that has drives that would otherwise not fit in the main computer case (just look at the SCSI NAS stuff they sell...though they are hella expensive).
Fingers - a digit-al device sometimes used to play music, tap music, whistle music, and snap music. And sometimes, more often than not a digital birdie is used for processing.
Fight piracy - regulate fingers!
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
And.... One man's terrorist is another man's patriot...(hey....to the Tory/Loyalists, we American colonists were terrorists back in the 18th century)
Just imagine what would happen if it was a site on Berkeley's server that the school wanted to take off.
Either way, since its conception I saw the Patriot Act as the most unpatriotic act ever (even more than Communism in some extent) mainly because it throws the Constitution that many patriotic Americans fought for, including my dad in the dumps. And as far as I'm concerned, as long as this continues, the terrorists pretty much won if their intent was to make us change our values.:,-(
man....my DSC-F707.....it's....it's....not bluetooth!
Though I think 802.11b based would be better (for speed).
wonder if they plan on making a bluetooth-memorystick adapter....for memorystick enabled digicams. (my VAIO has bluetooth support so it's perfect).
From true democracy to corporate democracy to now corporate communism all under 250 years.
I bet Stalin and Lenin are laughing their perserved asses off.
Like that guy who fathered the GNU movement said, it's "Digital Restrictions Management".
Or "Democrat's Right to Mug you" (And any republican that is for the current state of DRM is a democrat in disguise).
I wonder what's next....the corporate version of slavery? So much for the free-market concept.
democrat - acronym for "demoralized communist rat" or "demoralized capitalist rat"
BestCrypt has been around for quite some time.
Some years ago, they also had a hardware version (the hardware helped speed things up).
It's just like PGPDisk but with more features and it's the original.
http://www.jetico.com
They even have a Linux version.
One of the few things I wished they add is the ability for ppl to write algorithms for it without a compiler (via a scripting language) though it'll take a performance hit.
correction: 1024GB = 1TB (remember.....as far as storage capacities are concerned, it's a power of 2...usually a multiple of 1024bytes [1K])
man....1TB...it's about time...I can finally backup my harddrives (I have about a TB of storage.....backing it up on CDRs is not every economical or logical....let alone using floppies....)
Movie? French? AHAHAHHAHAAHHAHA
wasn't that by Edison?
Car? French? naw.....The internal-combustion engine used today in cars, aka a four-stroke engine by the name of the Otto-cycle engine was invented by a German engineer and the Diesel engine was invented by a German engineer (born in France).
But it's not like the French didn't contribute.....the first automobile that ran on stream was by a french inventor and the first internal-combustion, a single cylinder two-stroke engine was also by a french inventor. However, they weren't all that good. 2mph (with frequent stops) for the steam engine and 4mph for the two-stroke (which burned kerosene). The Austrian, German, British, and American inventors perfected it. (so it was a global accomplishment....and not just a french thing).
It's like the paradox of the electric light blub. Edison didn't invent it, he perfected it and made it practical.
Besides, I like Italian and German cars, not Renault or Peugeot though I have a Peugeot bicycle.
But like I said....no offense. Hell I like French cruisines. It's not like American and British cruisines are as distinct as French and Italian cruisines.
And such bad grammar. Learn some english....o wait...I forgot the French policy of not using foreign languages in their own. Just please think about things you say before saying them.
(hell, you think I'm ignorant and arrogant....look at yourself, your no better).
besides, your own comments prove the comments made about "french engineers" (cooks are different....they NEED to be artistic).
hmmmm....now there's an oxymoron....french engineers.....LOL No offense....I mean...The French did come up with French Fries....among other things.
but damn.....I really want/need this. Living on crappy dialup (19.2k) in the heart of the Silicon Valley all because broadband isn't available in my area.....
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yea...I know....like I said....scary huh? I think it's more scary than the Rambus thing in the long run. (SEE! it isn't that OT).
Anyways, the Oval Office scene now looks like something from "Revenge of the Nerds" (Guess who the nerds are.....)
o...how nice (sarcasm)....but you forgot one thing, it was the southern democrats who fought against ANY sort of equal rights (racially based ones) back in the 60's and back prior and around the Civil War. Then they got their asses wooped and they turned coat to avoid political backlash in a sense (from newly eligible voters) and became Southern "Republicans" 'cuz they didn't like what the Federal govt was making them do (states' rights issue); give equal rights to all.
.....well.... you know who to be less "smart" than a pretzel victim)
Hell, it wasn't until 1995 that Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment (that abolishes slavery).
Of course all this doesn't mean I like EITHER democrats or republicans (or even the green party; quote from Nader in a SNL skit "They don't call us the Green Party for nothing"!). A republican president who was almost assassinated by a pretzel who did at least graduate from college vs a mono-toned automaton who couldn't even complete college. (Kinda scary, huh? About our education system in more ways than one and not to mention pathetic for
Now, let's at least keep to the topic; Rambus, the Enron of the semiconductor industry. It's too bad Rambus or even Enron for that matter don't have an automatic lie-detector like Pinocchio.
Thank goodness. I thought I was the only one who noticed that GWB style math.
Even if Yahoo doesn't write it themselves, they can always do a check to see if it makes sense or they look like an a.s.s. (antiquated stupid slouch).
O well....it's California....(I gotta get the hell outta here)
I don't know who to blame again....the Recording Industry Ass. of America or the US Patent Office and their....well..."easily-dooped"-ability. (Maybe US stands for Ultra Stupid)
I wonder if I can patent a sperm delivery method using a revolutionary "new" tool to eliminate the need for using test tubes and petri dishes and even the collection of eggs prior to delivery.
Or "a method of sperm collection using multiple mobile locations with one on one care." Jerry Springer, here I come.
Man....it's lawyers like them that add gasoline (among other things) to an already enflamed hatred of lawyers.
There needs to be requirements of contact BEFORE they can EVEN file or threaten to sue since threatening to sue is like extortion.
So now where am I gonna find a good list of PCI device vendor list?
Damn politicians.
Why can't they cut their salaries to a buck a year like the CEO of Cisco? (in addition, donate half their kickbacks^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign-contributions to help the state budget.)
Besides, just like there's no point in trying to repair a decrepit bridge with termite infested wood, increasing taxes to an already crappy economy doesn't help. It might backfire.
What my dad have always said when I tried to get my allowance when I was a kid comes to mind: "You can't get blood from a turnip."
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"We don't have what we don't have." -- DUH!
There have been nice PVR's in Japan for a while now (at least a year) that also interface with your computer via USB1.1/2.0 (I'm sure there's a firewire version too and maybe a networked one) so you can copy and backup recorded shows as well as program it from your computer (not just on the TV). You can "explore" the contents of the PVR as you would your hard drive and copy, cut, paste, delete, rename at pretty much, will.
Maybe it's 'cuz of the DMCA, which doesn't exist elsewhere. (And they wonder why OUR economy is in the sh!ts)
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"You can't get blood from a turnip" - My dad back when I was a kid asking him for money.
or here's a novel idea.....have it dubbed in JAPANESE!! I still prefer raw vs even subbed. Hell, they can put subs into the closed captioning.
I still prefer my anime raw. And thx goodness I already have Trigun DVDs (R2). It cost me a fortune (though Excel Saga cost more).
Of course, subs are the lesser of two evils. The thing I don't get is...in Japan, they air anime that has been translated into english in dual-language, aka SAP like how CBS and some other networks air soaps with Spanish on the Second Audio channel. They do this to Pokemon, Power Puff Girls, Beast Wars, etc. Hell....I know it can be done. I use to watch The A-team and it had SAP! Not only that, they can implement subtitles into closed-captioning ahead of time. This way, ppl can turn off and on subs as they please and listen to the japanese portion as they please.
As far as editing goes, I don't get it. I've seen worse on FOX! And the stuff on Adult Swim (non-anime) isn't any less raunchier. It makes anime look like a Buddhist monk and the other stuff like [insert city-name like Boston, etc. here] Catholic priests.
Don't know if you see the direct correlation between the two.
Because the drives aren't as reliable as their SCSI cousins, the warranty administration costs were too much to bear thus they cut the warranty down. That's Business 101. Cut expenses, especially ones that are huge. Think of it this way, why else would a company include a long warranty on a product unless they had at least some faith in the quality of it. It wouldn't be smart if one didn't. Hell, if Craftsman (renowned for their quality and lifetime warranty) were to sell tools made out of earwax instead of the good steel they use now, do you seriously think that they would include the same warranty on the product made out of earwax!?
MANY ppl claim their warranties when their hard drives so they have a working hard drive again (not for the data recovery). It's hard enough to lose the data but to also not have a drive because of a flaky warranty? That's a double-whammy.
Technology is always getting cheaper so the argument that warranties were reduced to coup with it are weaker than one would think.
You can even think of warranties as a bet that the manufacturer places that the product will not break. So reasonably and logically, if the manufacturer didn't have the same about of faith in one product, it would make business sense to have different terms in the warranty for it.
Besides, you, Mr. Anonymous Coward said it yourself that reducing warranties helps reduce warranty administration costs. One would have to think WHY were the administration costs were high enough to force them in the first place.
I don't know about the next man but for me, I've learned from experience that IDE drives aren't reliable (why else would a majority of the hard drive manufacturers reduce the warranty periods to "save money"?). Maybe it has to do with out of the 9 IBM hard drives I've had over the years, 6 of those "Death"-stars blew up in my face within the first year of getting them. Of course, IBM isn't the only one. WhoreD and MaxWhore as affectionately called by my circle of friends/victims have their share, too. The only good thing with WD and Maxtor unlike IBM is that those two have developed better warranty and customer services to promptly deal with it. (For which I am very grateful for, BTW). While I can get my WD and Maxtor drives RMA'ed, my IBM drives still there as paperweights as IBM points fingers to some other company and they point it back at IBM. (Though IBM should be accountable for the "quality" of their craftsmanship, they deny it).
And yes, even WITH the dead DEATHSTARS, my collective data pool is over a terabyte now. I'm just waiting on C-3D and Inphase Technologies and their 100+GB per disc storage medium. It's cheaper, more reliable, and the size of a CD.
"Lawyers are like pubic hair, u'll get 'em and there's lots of 'em but they don't really seem to be doing anything." The side-lines spectators....
Man....I gotta remind myself to tell that to one of my friends who's going to law school to become a corporate lawyer.
AHAHAH
anyways, if u have any analogies or jokes about lawyers (esp if it deals with it in a Slashdot-way) just reply.
It's all in good fun.
Usually, Republicans are the ones in for the quick buck but from the looks of it, most of the Republicans on the list supported the Child Online Protection Act, which had a notable motive but wasn't executed right while most of the Democrats voted for the ones that had a monetary motive aka the right-to-buttf*ck-consumers-bills. Hell, look at California's own Feinstein with almost $400,000. I voted against her every time and yet that b^Hwitch is still here. (same goes for the one b^Hwitch).
Thank god it's over! And I'm referring to the cruel punishment that CN was doing to all the anime fans of the world by slaughtering and butchering anime and f*cking it up. Now if u want anime, go watch I-channel on Sundays (they air undubbed anime which are sometimes subtitled, though I don't like subs either at least they are better than dubs) Awww...the benefits of being a bilingual. I gotta remind my parents how thankful I am (though when I was a kid, I hated speading my Saturdays in school).
The good: SCSI command set, ability to use more than 4 per controller per pci slot, can have drives externally using an old SCSI case and thus chain it outside of the main comp. case (finally, I can reuse my old NAS case)
The bad : IDE drives are crappier than ever, so much so they most companies shortened the warranty periods to a year to save money, which in other words means, there were so many warranty returns that they were losing money.
The ugliest: the Price, my budget, and lack of future funds, D'oh
Well, there's also SerialATA which does incorporate some benefits of the SCSI command set (so you can burn, rip, play CS all on the same computer at the same time....awww...the benefits of a SCSI burner). The only downside other than the limitation on the number of drives per controller for SerialATA is that there's no external configuration.....yet. With SCSI, you can have a second case that has drives that would otherwise not fit in the main computer case (just look at the SCSI NAS stuff they sell...though they are hella expensive).
damn....wish money grew on a tree in my backyard.
Fingers - a digit-al device sometimes used to play music, tap music, whistle music, and snap music. And sometimes, more often than not a digital birdie is used for processing. Fight piracy - regulate fingers!
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
:,-(
And....
One man's terrorist is another man's patriot...(hey....to the Tory/Loyalists, we American colonists were terrorists back in the 18th century)
Just imagine what would happen if it was a site on Berkeley's server that the school wanted to take off.
Either way, since its conception I saw the Patriot Act as the most unpatriotic act ever (even more than Communism in some extent) mainly because it throws the Constitution that many patriotic Americans fought for, including my dad in the dumps. And as far as I'm concerned, as long as this continues, the terrorists pretty much won if their intent was to make us change our values.
man....my DSC-F707.....it's....it's....not bluetooth! Though I think 802.11b based would be better (for speed). wonder if they plan on making a bluetooth-memorystick adapter....for memorystick enabled digicams. (my VAIO has bluetooth support so it's perfect).
From true democracy to corporate democracy to now corporate communism all under 250 years.
I bet Stalin and Lenin are laughing their perserved asses off.
Like that guy who fathered the GNU movement said, it's "Digital Restrictions Management". Or "Democrat's Right to Mug you" (And any republican that is for the current state of DRM is a democrat in disguise).
I wonder what's next....the corporate version of slavery? So much for the free-market concept.
democrat - acronym for "demoralized communist rat" or "demoralized capitalist rat"
BestCrypt has been around for quite some time. Some years ago, they also had a hardware version (the hardware helped speed things up). It's just like PGPDisk but with more features and it's the original. http://www.jetico.com They even have a Linux version. One of the few things I wished they add is the ability for ppl to write algorithms for it without a compiler (via a scripting language) though it'll take a performance hit.
correction: 1024GB = 1TB (remember.....as far as storage capacities are concerned, it's a power of 2...usually a multiple of 1024bytes [1K])
man....1TB...it's about time...I can finally backup my harddrives (I have about a TB of storage.....backing it up on CDRs is not every economical or logical....let alone using floppies....)
Movie? French? AHAHAHHAHAAHHAHA wasn't that by Edison? Car? French? naw.....The internal-combustion engine used today in cars, aka a four-stroke engine by the name of the Otto-cycle engine was invented by a German engineer and the Diesel engine was invented by a German engineer (born in France). But it's not like the French didn't contribute.....the first automobile that ran on stream was by a french inventor and the first internal-combustion, a single cylinder two-stroke engine was also by a french inventor. However, they weren't all that good. 2mph (with frequent stops) for the steam engine and 4mph for the two-stroke (which burned kerosene). The Austrian, German, British, and American inventors perfected it. (so it was a global accomplishment....and not just a french thing). It's like the paradox of the electric light blub. Edison didn't invent it, he perfected it and made it practical. Besides, I like Italian and German cars, not Renault or Peugeot though I have a Peugeot bicycle. But like I said....no offense. Hell I like French cruisines. It's not like American and British cruisines are as distinct as French and Italian cruisines. And such bad grammar. Learn some english....o wait...I forgot the French policy of not using foreign languages in their own. Just please think about things you say before saying them. (hell, you think I'm ignorant and arrogant....look at yourself, your no better). besides, your own comments prove the comments made about "french engineers" (cooks are different....they NEED to be artistic).
hmmmm....now there's an oxymoron....french engineers.....LOL
No offense....I mean...The French did come up with French Fries....among other things.
but damn.....I really want/need this.
Living on crappy dialup (19.2k) in the heart of the Silicon Valley all because broadband isn't available in my area.....
*sigh*