I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
If you have the "VideoDownloader" extension for Firefox, it gives you three choices of downloading the video from google: flv, avi, mp4. I'm sure you can find at least one of those options suitable.
Almost all flash drives are made using cheaper & smaller NAND flash (rather then NOR flash which requires more transistors per bit of storage). This type of flash wears out much more easily then NOR flash.
If you decide to use these flash drives as a backup medium, you should definitely use some sort of encoding that allows for bit-corrections. Possibly some sort of Forward Error Correction. Or use a RAID parity/striping method.
Except evolutionists have some basis in reality. Also, they do not rule out that the process of evolution is as some deity intended. They are just describing a mechanism, not a supreme plan.
Actually it's because the patent examiners get more points for granting then they get for refusing patents. And there is a biweekly quota of points. Since each patent takes a lot of up-front research, refusing a patent also has the effect of preventing you from examining more patents to get points with. As a result patent examiners work on up to 10 patents in parallel. This ends up confusing many examiners who end up allowing patents thru because of their workload. It's a great system. PS: Maybe we should federally fund the patent system instead of having there be a fee for applications and maintainance of patent? Just a thought.
as a certain character on That 70s Show would say: Burn!
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m'kay. nevermind then. but still, damn my need for (getting-the-last-word)edness!:X
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Did you just use the New York Post in an attempt to discredit something? hm. wow. Like, seriously. I think you need to read a larger variety of news sources. Just my opinion.
On the lamb brains... oh man, you don't even know! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm lamb brains
and on the eggs, okay, you have a point. but isn't raising animals as food-slaves only to steal their unfertalized half-young wrong?;) Look, i'm just pullin your chain and I don't really think this way. But it's fun to rephrase everyday okay-to-do-things in terms of evilnesseseseses.
yes, the "abuse" claim is... um, questionable. I mean, when I cold-store those eggs, and then I abort them into a skillet before true-embryonic stage (most of the time), and then I scramble them with some permutation_of(onions, peppers, sausage, tomatoes), it sure doesn't taste like abuse.:-d (the "d" is for yumyums, not a pointing tongue) PS: have you ever had lamb brains? I'm telling you, it's freaking delicious: seriously.
sentient = responsive to or conscious of sense impressions.
sapient = possessing or expressing great sagacity.
Or at least, that's how Webster explains it. Contextually: yes, I would agree that chickens are probably not sapient, but I have a nagging hunch that they are sentient.
Man, people are way too uptight about this crap. Animals clone themselves all the time. What if a decade from now a virus hits humanity that destroys our fertility (just imagine, you don't have to figure out how exactly)... wouldn't it be nice for us to at least now how to keep humanity going somehow? And to all those people that say the clone wouldn't be "human" be because of lack of soul, well you are the inhuman one. Anyone who would treat a thinking human different based on how they were born is a very ignorant animal. And as far as harvesting goes: If a clump of cells doesn't have a brain, then it can't contain any thoughts. No thoughts = not sentient. If a stem cell is used to create just an organ without creating the rest of the entity, then it's the same as growing a tomato only to "harvest" it. *shudder* Isn't that just horribly evil?
Bab5 lost out? I thought they finished the story? I liked where it finished. I enjoyed every second of the show, and I wouldn't add anything.
Farscape, *grunt-sigh* bastards!
Well I've been using "aspect-oriented programming" for a while. It deals with code that can be extended depending on what source you overlay with each other. It's a very useful language when you are trying to develope test suites for verification of ASIC/FPGA logic. It allows you to create a basic environment, and then create a variety of smaller files that go and tweak/extend/replace parts of the environment. And the main plus is that you don't have to really "plan" for these tweaks, the language itself lets you do it. This is something that object-oriented languages didn't give me, and I ended up wasting a lot of time redesigning things. Aspect-oriented = clean-hacking.:o)
You mean Verisity's Specman Elite? I've been using that for a couple years now. The files are "E" files. It's pretty cool: Aspect oriented. Super neat. And of course it handles all the garbage collecting stuff.
I believe this is where P2P steps in?;) I got into Farscape at the begining of the 3rd season. I just got the first episode and that got me hooked. So I just caught up with the "new episodes" that way. Of course I purchase the DVDs as soon as they came out.... much better quality. If a show is good enough that you are willing to sit through 3 seasons of blocky-lossy encoding then it must be damn good.
But you are right, without some way to backtrack, these type of shows are doomed.
I didn't like the IE-only thing either. But it's a site that is nice, even the non-free features are rather cheap, and really, who doesn't have a secret wintel box sitting around somewhere. Don't be scared, nobody will find out. *wink*
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I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
If you have the "VideoDownloader" extension for Firefox, it gives you three choices of downloading the video from google: flv, avi, mp4. I'm sure you can find at least one of those options suitable.
Almost all flash drives are made using cheaper & smaller NAND flash (rather then NOR flash which requires more transistors per bit of storage). This type of flash wears out much more easily then NOR flash.
If you decide to use these flash drives as a backup medium, you should definitely use some sort of encoding that allows for bit-corrections. Possibly some sort of Forward Error Correction. Or use a RAID parity/striping method.
Except evolutionists have some basis in reality. Also, they do not rule out that the process of evolution is as some deity intended. They are just describing a mechanism, not a supreme plan.
As an NJ ex-resident, I agree completely.
Actually it's because the patent examiners get more points for granting then they get for refusing patents. And there is a biweekly quota of points. Since each patent takes a lot of up-front research, refusing a patent also has the effect of preventing you from examining more patents to get points with. As a result patent examiners work on up to 10 patents in parallel. This ends up confusing many examiners who end up allowing patents thru because of their workload. It's a great system. PS: Maybe we should federally fund the patent system instead of having there be a fee for applications and maintainance of patent? Just a thought.
Let's save up out sympathies for them Microsoft really IS the underdog. I'll totally be back on Billy's side when he's got small market share
as a certain character on That 70s Show would say: Burn!
m'kay. nevermind then. but still, damn my need for (getting-the-last-word)edness! :X
Did you just use the New York Post in an attempt to discredit something? hm. wow. Like, seriously. I think you need to read a larger variety of news sources. Just my opinion.
... cows taste good.
Amen to that! Let's go have some kabob.
On the lamb brains... oh man, you don't even know! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm lamb brains
;) Look, i'm just pullin your chain and I don't really think this way. But it's fun to rephrase everyday okay-to-do-things in terms of evilnesseseseses.
and on the eggs, okay, you have a point. but isn't raising animals as food-slaves only to steal their unfertalized half-young wrong?
yes, the "abuse" claim is... um, questionable. I mean, when I cold-store those eggs, and then I abort them into a skillet before true-embryonic stage (most of the time), and then I scramble them with some permutation_of(onions, peppers, sausage, tomatoes), it sure doesn't taste like abuse. :-d (the "d" is for yumyums, not a pointing tongue) PS: have you ever had lamb brains? I'm telling you, it's freaking delicious: seriously.
sentient = responsive to or conscious of sense impressions.
sapient = possessing or expressing great sagacity.
Or at least, that's how Webster explains it. Contextually: yes, I would agree that chickens are probably not sapient, but I have a nagging hunch that they are sentient.
I love you. That's a great point. We "abuse" the dignity of sentient beings all the time.
Man, people are way too uptight about this crap. Animals clone themselves all the time. What if a decade from now a virus hits humanity that destroys our fertility (just imagine, you don't have to figure out how exactly)... wouldn't it be nice for us to at least now how to keep humanity going somehow? And to all those people that say the clone wouldn't be "human" be because of lack of soul, well you are the inhuman one. Anyone who would treat a thinking human different based on how they were born is a very ignorant animal. And as far as harvesting goes: If a clump of cells doesn't have a brain, then it can't contain any thoughts. No thoughts = not sentient. If a stem cell is used to create just an organ without creating the rest of the entity, then it's the same as growing a tomato only to "harvest" it. *shudder* Isn't that just horribly evil?
Bab5 lost out? I thought they finished the story? I liked where it finished. I enjoyed every second of the show, and I wouldn't add anything. Farscape, *grunt-sigh* bastards!
I wanted to say exactly that, but my brain failed me. Well put Tmack.
Well I've been using "aspect-oriented programming" for a while. It deals with code that can be extended depending on what source you overlay with each other. It's a very useful language when you are trying to develope test suites for verification of ASIC/FPGA logic. It allows you to create a basic environment, and then create a variety of smaller files that go and tweak/extend/replace parts of the environment. And the main plus is that you don't have to really "plan" for these tweaks, the language itself lets you do it. This is something that object-oriented languages didn't give me, and I ended up wasting a lot of time redesigning things. Aspect-oriented = clean-hacking. :o)
You mean Verisity's Specman Elite? I've been using that for a couple years now. The files are "E" files. It's pretty cool: Aspect oriented. Super neat. And of course it handles all the garbage collecting stuff.
I believe this is where P2P steps in? ;) I got into Farscape at the begining of the 3rd season. I just got the first episode and that got me hooked. So I just caught up with the "new episodes" that way. Of course I purchase the DVDs as soon as they came out.... much better quality. If a show is good enough that you are willing to sit through 3 seasons of blocky-lossy encoding then it must be damn good.
But you are right, without some way to backtrack, these type of shows are doomed.
I suspect that some of the message boards and chat room stuff is ASP-ish. maybe. nevermind. 0;)
I didn't like the IE-only thing either. But it's a site that is nice, even the non-free features are rather cheap, and really, who doesn't have a secret wintel box sitting around somewhere. Don't be scared, nobody will find out. *wink*
Irony Games' Dice Server is pretty nice and supports PGP authentication.
I've been lurking on Macray's Keep for a while now. It seems to be a nice system so you might want to check it out.