Uh, sir, I own a pair of Sennheiser HD590s and I've owned them for nearly a decade. The Sennheiser HD590 does indeed come with a detachable cable as I've replaced mine once. I can also attest that the rigging inside the headphone is not "a bit of rigid solder."
Have you even considered that you haven't had the same run ins that I have? When it comes down to individual experience, it makes a big difference. You've never heard of a cop use his authority to push someone around without probable cause? Come on now. Let's talk about honesty again here.
That comment says more about you than it does about cops.
For being honest enough to admit that I neither know nor can adhere to every single law to the letter? I think any honest person would admit to it. Are you an honest person?
I was making the bigger point about police who know the right time and place to get in a suspects face instead of using his better judgment and understanding that people aren't always going to follow the letter of the law but that at the same time it's not done in the name of malice.
And overall it has nothing to do with this case in particular either. Everyone on the streets has their opinion of cops. Cops get a lot of shit thrown on them because of the ex-high school jock that I described up-thread. I think a lot of your better cops know this all too well and it makes their life just as rough as the asshole cop makes the life of the little guy.
Police are there to enforce the law. Not interpret it.
Impossible. Just by the fact that you can define an event (such as a crime) you've already built a personal interpretation. Why do you think there is so many squabbles around here that sound like two lawyers going at it in a court room?
No more joking on the internet because someone could take it seriously!
Show me where I can joke in front of a cop without taking the chance of him taking it seriously and taking action based on it.
And you know, I agree, it sucks that it's come down to this but everyone is so uptight anymore and the cops like to flex their muscles a little too much. This is the end result of a bunch of old high school jocks with a chip on their shoulder and the people who get sick of their 10th grade antics with a badge.
Sorry for any cops that read this and think they're above that kind of thing, you just might be, but too many of your brothers in blue are nothing less than what I've described above. Most of us know police only when they meet them in a bad situation and all too often the asshole cops are the ones to be the most vocal. We rarely see the cop that lets small infractions slide.
It is clear you do not understand why ActiveX must be married to the operating system.
Really? Because it's not clear that you do. Seriously, would it kill people to bring the issue to the surface in an intelligent manner that might benefit those of us who are outside the loop on this? I'm not asking for a thesis but rather a simple dialog that can be researched by people who are interested in learning more about the issue at hand.
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I see your point but the fact that it appears that you have unlimited downloads of purchased games that makes it more valuable, IMHO, than a store bought game. I have no less than 4 box games that I'm missing a disc from or a disc is no longer readable to. I could get a new disc if I pay a price (assuming it's an unreadable disc, with a missing disc I'm SOL) or I can use Pirate Bay if they have it there but with Steam it's just a legal and fast download away.
I will buy a Steam version before a box version assuming that there isn't a vast difference in price (let's say 20 USD versus 50 USD). So Steam has me as a customer unless they change their policy. It's a much better deal than iTunes in that fashion.
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Are you talking about the original Opposing Forces (I don't know if there is a Source version)? I bought and played it off Steam over the holidays and didn't have any issues.
Is he just looking for some windows-GUI-admin-tool for linux? Then he should just hire someone who knows something.
You must be new here. A good 95% of all AskSlashdot questions could be answered by saying "just hire someone who knows something."
While it is an accurate answer it's also interesting to see some of the ideas that get beat around. Who knows, this series of threads may spur someone to start a project that has real impact on Linux as an enterprise desktop OS.
As a scientist, I would find it a far better thing to have my claims proven correct after my death than to have them declared correct in my lifetime only to be discredited later due to lazy peer review.
That business model has unreleased material you can get for a price. I can get entire authors works on Pirate's Bay for free. Nothing to buy. Zero. Why would I ever buy in that case? I'm still waiting for someone to prove me wrong on this.
you and the publishers are not only wrong, but in the publishers' case, possibly terminally wrong.
Actually, I'm not wrong, you're looking in the wrong places for the wrong thing. And then you go off to mention Asimov? No surprise you've missed the point that publishers have to make to remain afloat...
It's fucking *Asimov*! No shit it doesn't take strong arm techniques to keep authors like Asimov profitable but what do you do about the other 99.9% of what sits on the shelf at your local Borders? What about non-pleasure reading? Or are you telling me that the books I find on The Pirates Bay are all non-sales anyway? That's a joke of an excuse.
And don't get me wrong, free samples? Sure, that can move books but how do you sell something if all of it is available for free? I'm not saying that the model doesn't work for some under certain circumstances but it doesn't work with the current numbers of the market. That's the difference.
A vendor means money flow. Non-DRM can, and does, open itself up to free transfer of a product with no money being involved. That's a bigger headache than dealing with vendor lock in when you're trying to make a profit.
Ok. Now tell me where the return on investment is at in getting someone to the airport a potential of 20 minutes earlier so said traveler can just stand around the airport security lines?
Can you give me some reasons that the maglev they had was better than the NYC subway?
I mean this as a nice way of saying "Get beyond your sci-fi channel dreams of what should be and give me a valid ROI study that justifies it beyond the Wow! factor."
Just from my recent experiences on a cruise (Carnival using a Verizon phone); I could not use my data plan with the ships service. I tried it just to see if I was able with no luck. I was able to do voice and text but that's as far as it went. I couldn't even send a photo using SMS.
Obviously something went wrong here and different carriers may have different abilities. This is just my personal experience.
And I was told the same thing would happen. While I haven't looked over the breakdown of my bill I was only about 40 dollars more than normal and that included sending several photos and making about a half hour worth of calls from Mexico (which came up on my phone as roaming so I was not surprised)
But there seemed to be no additional charges for the calls and data usage I made from Long Beach, California. My phone never went to a roaming state while I was in port in Long Beach either. So I'm not really seeing how all of this came about or why some people seem to have different experiences with this.
Just for the record this was with Verizon. YMMV. Yadda, yadda yadda.
Also, why can't someone fix this damned text box in Idle? It's really getting old.
And that's fine in and of itself but at the same time why present it as newsworthy? While I'm sure there are many here who are concerned at the outcome of all of this it doesn't seem right to just hash the same old stuff just to pump out an article. I'm speaking more to the tone of respectable journalism than anything Childs is facing overall.
I suppose it's a tad better than the latest top 10 TechRepublic article but there is a good reason that stuff never gets too much coverage here.
I know I don't RTFA often enough but did the "interview" strike anyone as a bit thin? I'm more use to the format of question and answer and I got ten paragraphs that had a glorious 7 sentences of actual quotes from the subject of the interview. None of which touches on what he did, why he did it and only the faintest hint and why he feels that he's not guilty.
Looking at it I get the feeling that the reason I don't bother with the articles as much anymore is because web journalism is simply too lite in all the wrong places.
You think that most solar and wind projects aren't subsidized? What a joke.
There are alternatives withing the ethanol field itself that deserve another look at but simply won't be taken into consideration because people refuse to put money behind it. If the current ethanol market was such a loss it would have never made it to market. Ethanol certainly has gotten further in the last 5 years than any other alternative. That's a potential that is glossed over only by those who don't want alternative energies to come into being.
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Uh, sir, I own a pair of Sennheiser HD590s and I've owned them for nearly a decade. The Sennheiser HD590 does indeed come with a detachable cable as I've replaced mine once. I can also attest that the rigging inside the headphone is not "a bit of rigid solder."
Have you even considered that you haven't had the same run ins that I have? When it comes down to individual experience, it makes a big difference. You've never heard of a cop use his authority to push someone around without probable cause? Come on now. Let's talk about honesty again here.
That comment says more about you than it does about cops.
For being honest enough to admit that I neither know nor can adhere to every single law to the letter? I think any honest person would admit to it. Are you an honest person?
I was making the bigger point about police who know the right time and place to get in a suspects face instead of using his better judgment and understanding that people aren't always going to follow the letter of the law but that at the same time it's not done in the name of malice.
And overall it has nothing to do with this case in particular either. Everyone on the streets has their opinion of cops. Cops get a lot of shit thrown on them because of the ex-high school jock that I described up-thread. I think a lot of your better cops know this all too well and it makes their life just as rough as the asshole cop makes the life of the little guy.
Police are there to enforce the law. Not interpret it.
Impossible. Just by the fact that you can define an event (such as a crime) you've already built a personal interpretation. Why do you think there is so many squabbles around here that sound like two lawyers going at it in a court room?
No more joking on the internet because someone could take it seriously!
Show me where I can joke in front of a cop without taking the chance of him taking it seriously and taking action based on it.
And you know, I agree, it sucks that it's come down to this but everyone is so uptight anymore and the cops like to flex their muscles a little too much. This is the end result of a bunch of old high school jocks with a chip on their shoulder and the people who get sick of their 10th grade antics with a badge.
Sorry for any cops that read this and think they're above that kind of thing, you just might be, but too many of your brothers in blue are nothing less than what I've described above. Most of us know police only when they meet them in a bad situation and all too often the asshole cops are the ones to be the most vocal. We rarely see the cop that lets small infractions slide.
It is clear you do not understand why ActiveX must be married to the operating system.
Really? Because it's not clear that you do. Seriously, would it kill people to bring the issue to the surface in an intelligent manner that might benefit those of us who are outside the loop on this? I'm not asking for a thesis but rather a simple dialog that can be researched by people who are interested in learning more about the issue at hand.
I see your point but the fact that it appears that you have unlimited downloads of purchased games that makes it more valuable, IMHO, than a store bought game. I have no less than 4 box games that I'm missing a disc from or a disc is no longer readable to. I could get a new disc if I pay a price (assuming it's an unreadable disc, with a missing disc I'm SOL) or I can use Pirate Bay if they have it there but with Steam it's just a legal and fast download away.
I will buy a Steam version before a box version assuming that there isn't a vast difference in price (let's say 20 USD versus 50 USD). So Steam has me as a customer unless they change their policy. It's a much better deal than iTunes in that fashion.
Are you talking about the original Opposing Forces (I don't know if there is a Source version)? I bought and played it off Steam over the holidays and didn't have any issues.
Is he just looking for some windows-GUI-admin-tool for linux? Then he should just hire someone who knows something.
You must be new here. A good 95% of all AskSlashdot questions could be answered by saying "just hire someone who knows something."
While it is an accurate answer it's also interesting to see some of the ideas that get beat around. Who knows, this series of threads may spur someone to start a project that has real impact on Linux as an enterprise desktop OS.
This is why it's important to document your code... or your warheads. Either or.
As a scientist, I would find it a far better thing to have my claims proven correct after my death than to have them declared correct in my lifetime only to be discredited later due to lazy peer review.
Science should be a marathon, not a sprint.
That business model has unreleased material you can get for a price. I can get entire authors works on Pirate's Bay for free. Nothing to buy. Zero. Why would I ever buy in that case? I'm still waiting for someone to prove me wrong on this.
you and the publishers are not only wrong, but in the publishers' case, possibly terminally wrong.
Actually, I'm not wrong, you're looking in the wrong places for the wrong thing. And then you go off to mention Asimov? No surprise you've missed the point that publishers have to make to remain afloat...
It's fucking *Asimov*! No shit it doesn't take strong arm techniques to keep authors like Asimov profitable but what do you do about the other 99.9% of what sits on the shelf at your local Borders? What about non-pleasure reading? Or are you telling me that the books I find on The Pirates Bay are all non-sales anyway? That's a joke of an excuse.
And don't get me wrong, free samples? Sure, that can move books but how do you sell something if all of it is available for free? I'm not saying that the model doesn't work for some under certain circumstances but it doesn't work with the current numbers of the market. That's the difference.
A vendor means money flow. Non-DRM can, and does, open itself up to free transfer of a product with no money being involved. That's a bigger headache than dealing with vendor lock in when you're trying to make a profit.
Better the devil you know, so to speak.
Ok. Now tell me where the return on investment is at in getting someone to the airport a potential of 20 minutes earlier so said traveler can just stand around the airport security lines?
BTW, what about stops? Are there still stops?
I thought /. had human editors. I guess I was mistaken.
No, you were correct Slashdot had human editors at one point in time. Now it's just all Firehose silliness. Oh, those were the days.
Because it covers the 18mi between the airport and city subway system in seven minutes.
How long does this take by the current system? I'm seriously interested in the savings here. Knowing one part of this and not another doesn't help.
Can you give me some reasons that the maglev they had was better than the NYC subway?
I mean this as a nice way of saying "Get beyond your sci-fi channel dreams of what should be and give me a valid ROI study that justifies it beyond the Wow! factor."
Just from my recent experiences on a cruise (Carnival using a Verizon phone); I could not use my data plan with the ships service. I tried it just to see if I was able with no luck. I was able to do voice and text but that's as far as it went. I couldn't even send a photo using SMS.
Obviously something went wrong here and different carriers may have different abilities. This is just my personal experience.
And I was told the same thing would happen. While I haven't looked over the breakdown of my bill I was only about 40 dollars more than normal and that included sending several photos and making about a half hour worth of calls from Mexico (which came up on my phone as roaming so I was not surprised)
But there seemed to be no additional charges for the calls and data usage I made from Long Beach, California. My phone never went to a roaming state while I was in port in Long Beach either. So I'm not really seeing how all of this came about or why some people seem to have different experiences with this.
Just for the record this was with Verizon. YMMV. Yadda, yadda yadda.
Also, why can't someone fix this damned text box in Idle? It's really getting old.
I still think "Negativland" is U2's best album. I actually paid for it too.
Sadly SST Records had to pay for it too.
And that's fine in and of itself but at the same time why present it as newsworthy? While I'm sure there are many here who are concerned at the outcome of all of this it doesn't seem right to just hash the same old stuff just to pump out an article. I'm speaking more to the tone of respectable journalism than anything Childs is facing overall.
I suppose it's a tad better than the latest top 10 TechRepublic article but there is a good reason that stuff never gets too much coverage here.
I know I don't RTFA often enough but did the "interview" strike anyone as a bit thin? I'm more use to the format of question and answer and I got ten paragraphs that had a glorious 7 sentences of actual quotes from the subject of the interview. None of which touches on what he did, why he did it and only the faintest hint and why he feels that he's not guilty.
Looking at it I get the feeling that the reason I don't bother with the articles as much anymore is because web journalism is simply too lite in all the wrong places.
You think that most solar and wind projects aren't subsidized? What a joke.
There are alternatives withing the ethanol field itself that deserve another look at but simply won't be taken into consideration because people refuse to put money behind it. If the current ethanol market was such a loss it would have never made it to market. Ethanol certainly has gotten further in the last 5 years than any other alternative. That's a potential that is glossed over only by those who don't want alternative energies to come into being.