Or on my crappy $10 headphones. Or at the gym, cranked up to distortion levels on the hifi system. Seriously folks, few people listen to FM in an environment where 'high definition' radio makes a difference. Its like playing crappy MP3s on your free-with-the-PC speakers - you can't even tell that the MP3s suck, because the speakers suck more. I guess hearing the voices on NPR at 16bit,44.1KHz may make some people's day, but this is not like the upgrade path from tape to CD. This is a product looking for a market.
Agreed. Especially since broadcast FM is free and works with the equipment I already have.
The marginal increase in quality is not worth the money required to upgrade your equipment.
If they were broadcasting raw 16 bit 44 khz wav file data, then I would probably be interested. For obvious reasons, they probably do NOT want to broadcast data in that manner.
Come now, the stock market is legalized gambling these days. It's a nice easy way to invest in a company. Investments are risks. The stock buyers are taking the risk that SCO is successful.
Um. What do you mean by "these days"? As opposed to when? "The good ole' days"? When stocks were not nice easy ways to invest in a company?
The stock buyers are NOT taking a risk that SCO is successful. Stock prices are not based on how well a company does - they are based on how well a company is EXPECTED to do. It about speculation and what the masses think about the company.
The dot com bubble clearly illustrates this. Those companies that burst had nothing to stand on - no tangible product that anyone wanted. Their stock prices were artificially inflated due to investors' speculation and expectation that they would do well - not because the companies actually did well.
It seems pretty critical of Linux. It also seems to talk about migrating from UNIX to Windows. They dont state the difference between UNIX and Linux. Linux being free, and most UNIXes being just as expensive as Windows.
You are partially right, although I think the big difference is not that Linux is free and UNIX is expensive, but that Linux is Free and UNIX is proprietary.
If you are very talented in computers, you could find a job at a tech company who reimburses related educational expenses - i.e. college degree courses in a computer field. It works for me.
Join one of the armed services. They have a multitude of college options. The Army has a "College First" program where they pay for to go get a degree, in exchange for you serving in the army for two years or something like this. Believe it or not, there are many geek jobs in the military (especially in the Navy). Wearing a uniform to work for a few years is a small price to pay for a completely free college education at the university of your choice.
how about people, like myself, that have hardware that will NOT run anything after Win98? I have a p133 laptop that I use for web, email, etc, that cannot run Win2k (it gets to the text boot screen and freezes).
Looks like MS is forcing me to upgrade my hardware too? Not cool.
The same thing happens in every other industry, why is it so shocking that it happens with software too??
You can't take your 1981 BMW to the BMW dealer for repairs - they'll tell you to go to a local independant BMW specialist.
You can't take your Nintendo (no... not N64, not SNES, but original NES) back to Nintendo and say hey - I found a bug, you need to fix it!
And you can't take your NVidia TNT2 card back to NVidia and expect them to fix a firmware bug that you found.
Products do have lifecycles, and FIVE years (in the case of win98) is a pretty long support cycle for low-cost consumer grade software.
Unlike the BMW though, there can't be any local independant Win98 support specialists - because M$ holds all the code.
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What about the disproportionate sentencing laws that say if you use cocaine (mostly white people) you get a slap on the wrist but if you an equivalent amount of crack (mostly black people) you go to jail for 10 years?
And what about Marijuana? It's equally popular among blacks and whites, is less harmful than alcohol, yet people are doing time for it? I don't think the law is perfect, but I don't think it targets any particular segment of the population. BTW I'm also curious where you got your numbers on white people using cocaine while black people use crack. I used to be good friends with a very poor black man who wouldn't come anywhere near crack - but he loved coke.
While the drug laws are certainly not perfect (what laws are??), I dont think theyre "wrong".
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Pointing out the evidence implicating Israel in 9/11.
Unfortunately, that "evidence" is a null string.
Pointing out that the war on drugs is genocide.
I think not. It's a war against drug dealers and drug users. If you aren't a user or dealer of illegal drugs, you shouldn't have a problem.
Pointing out that feminism has ruined America.
In what sense? I disagree with you here, but maybe you can provide some specific examples.
NOTE: There is a difference between heresy and lunacy, although the two do converge in several places.
Its called a firewall, I know, its quite a concept but it works!
No Windows box of mine has been hit by it, but maybe thats because I run an SUS server so the machine never needs to have an Internet connection to update.
Right. Your average Ma and Pa who just got their new Packard-Bell from CompUSA has a firewall and a SUS server. Anything you say.
I would think that msblast makes up a larger amount of the applications with network connections. I work for an ISP and there a still many customers who are afflicted with that virus.
Agreed. You should see the incoming access logs from my firewall. There are hundreds of attempts per week from random IP's which are hitting ports like 17300, 901, 35xxx, 6129, etc. which are known ports that viruses/worms use. It amazes me the number of unpatched Windoze systems out there. How does the buyer of a new PC get it online at home without catching 3 worms in the first 10 seconds??
GTA is the right course of action, but perhaps making it an "18+ ID required at checkout" type of item may help."
I agree, there, but then, it isn't a game for kids, and the ratings do indicate that...
Agreed, however many parents today rely on "the system" to keep adult materials (like GTA) out of the hands of their kids. The system is not always effective at doing this. Now these parents should step up and act like real parents and stop relying on the system to protect their kids - but the fact remains. Therefore, I believe that we need more strict controls to keep games/simulations/whatever of strong violence out of their hands.
Naked breasts trapped in green alien crust that span in enemies when you hit them with a rocket launcher.
A large blue queen aquatic alien dispatched by jamming a pipe bomb up her birth canal.
Yeah, if it weren't for the normal and healthy sexual content of Duke Nukem I wouldn't be the man I am today.
I wasn't implying that Duke Nukem was "clean".
I was merely trying to point out that between the two most controversial types of content for minors (violent and sexual), I personally video violent content as being much worse than normal sexual content. The examples you give above are certainly not "normal". By normal sexual content, I mean images of nude people. Not alien sex. Not bestiality. Not pipe bombs in birth canals.
Why the heck would they want to ban GTA while I see worse things every day when I go to my local CompUSA. I mean Duke Nukem 3d had women flashing or pole dancing in it, and I still see that on the shelf when I go to CompUSA. In GTA3, at most, with women, you see a van shaking back and forth. What is this world coming to ?
Naked breasts are a very different thing from killing cops and running people over. If I had kids (I don't), I would much rather them be exposed to normal sexual content rather than extreme violence and carnage - even if it is just a video game.
I'm a strong free speach advocate (making regular donations to the EFF - I encourage everyone to do the same), when we have high-schoolers shooting each other on school grounds, something needs to be done about the violence that kids get exposed to.
I'm don't think that banning GTA is the right course of action, but perhaps making it an "18+ ID required at checkout" type of item may help.
Isn't a European car that gets good mileage the wrong car for a right-winger to own? Perhaps you make up for it by fueling it with freshly squeezed kitten oil.
It's actually a new kitten oil / endangered sea turtle oil blend.
If you say so. My two datapoints are co-workers, one with an 02 bug, the other with an Insight. The bug gets awesome mileage, but doesn't actually reach "50 mpg" territory. I'm far more interested in torque than mileage, so neither of these vehicles appeal to me.
The milage of your co-workers bug will also depend on how many miles are on the car. I did not begin to see 50 mpg until I had about 15k miles on the car. Diesel engines take a while to get broken in, much longer than gas.
If the 150 lb/ft of torque in the 1.9 TDI isn't enough for you, wait until next year - VW is introducing a new 2.0l TDI engine which gets a claimed 54 MPG and 247 lb/ft of torque - almost 100 lb of torque more than the current model.
Partly because the Honda actually accomplishes the mileage, while the VW merely "approaches" it.
Based on my personal observations of the cars, only.
I see a solid 50 mpg in my '03 Jetta TDI. But I do almost exclusively highway driving. YMMV in mixed driving conditions.
The smaller TDI engines in europe (1.2l and 1.4l) are much more economical than the 1.9l VW TDI engine in the US. The euro cars , depending on model, get anywhere from 60 to 100 mpg.
Conservation still makes the most sense to me. We should get serious about reducing our energy needs with government incentives for energy efficiency.
Agreed. But it has to be consistant. Why does a 50 mile-per-gallon Honda hybrid car qualify for a tax deduction, but a 50 mile-per-gallon Volkswagen turbo-diesel car does not? In europe, VW/Audi are producing cars which get 100 miles per gallon (the lupo 1.2 TDI) which also meet the uber-strict euro-4 emissions standards.
I don't know about you, but when a Ford Explorer rolls over and slams into me, I'd much rather be in a big-ass Audi A6 TDI getting 50 miles per gallon than a tiny tin-can honda hybrid which gets the same fuel economy.
There is nothing wrong with using hydrocarbon based energy, so long as it is super efficient and clean. That represents an extremely small portion of the current hydrocarbon consuming cars / power plants.
If the turbines killed three people a day......well, we'd probably accept that, too, just as we do for cars.
Cars kill people because of human error. Very very very rarely does a vehicle malfunction causing the death of the occupants.
This includes SUV roll overs. It's your own damn stupidity using an off-road vehicle with high ground clearance for a commuting car / grocery-getter.
Exploding Ford pintos and faulty Firestone tires - those are due to equipment malfunction (or more precisely, failed engineering). But neither of those events had anyone "probably accept that too". Massive lawsuits and large-scale negative press were the result of those.
On the kill three people a day note, the pollution from burning coal has probably killed three people a day (certainly if you include the coal mining fatalities).
They should put these things up in New York City. Maybe then we can kill off some of these damn pigeons. They make a mockery of city statues and newly waxed cars. Rats with wings I call them.
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That isn't Mars in those photos. Those are just old movie props from Total Recall.
They can't fool me.
Or on my crappy $10 headphones. Or at the gym, cranked up to distortion levels on the hifi system. Seriously folks, few people listen to FM in an environment where 'high definition' radio makes a difference. Its like playing crappy MP3s on your free-with-the-PC speakers - you can't even tell that the MP3s suck, because the speakers suck more. I guess hearing the voices on NPR at 16bit,44.1KHz may make some people's day, but this is not like the upgrade path from tape to CD. This is a product looking for a market.
Agreed. Especially since broadcast FM is free and works with the equipment I already have.
The marginal increase in quality is not worth the money required to upgrade your equipment.
If they were broadcasting raw 16 bit 44 khz wav file data, then I would probably be interested. For obvious reasons, they probably do NOT want to broadcast data in that manner.
fp mofo!
Come now, the stock market is legalized gambling these days. It's a nice easy way to invest in a company. Investments are risks. The stock buyers are taking the risk that SCO is successful.
Um. What do you mean by "these days"? As opposed to when? "The good ole' days"? When stocks were not nice easy ways to invest in a company?
The stock buyers are NOT taking a risk that SCO is successful. Stock prices are not based on how well a company does - they are based on how well a company is EXPECTED to do. It about speculation and what the masses think about the company.
The dot com bubble clearly illustrates this. Those companies that burst had nothing to stand on - no tangible product that anyone wanted. Their stock prices were artificially inflated due to investors' speculation and expectation that they would do well - not because the companies actually did well.
It seems pretty critical of Linux. It also seems to talk about migrating from UNIX to Windows. They dont state the difference between UNIX and Linux. Linux being free, and most UNIXes being just as expensive as Windows.
You are partially right, although I think the big difference is not that Linux is free and UNIX is expensive, but that Linux is Free and UNIX is proprietary.
this is the equivalent of a 1980's RLL or MFM drive.
You DO know what MFM stood for? I'll give you a hint: it has to do with the type of technology used in making it work.
Answer: Muther-Fucking Magic. MFM.
"this is the equivalent of a 1980's RLL or MFM drive."
I still use an MFM drive you insensitive clod!
No, no, no. This is a review of a service pack BETA. Just the fact that someone reviewed it is news.
No, that someone even gives a damn about a beta of a MS service pack - now that's funny!!
If you are very talented in computers, you could find a job at a tech company who reimburses related educational expenses - i.e. college degree courses in a computer field. It works for me.
Join one of the armed services. They have a multitude of college options. The Army has a "College First" program where they pay for to go get a degree, in exchange for you serving in the army for two years or something like this. Believe it or not, there are many geek jobs in the military (especially in the Navy). Wearing a uniform to work for a few years is a small price to pay for a completely free college education at the university of your choice.
Think about it.
how about people, like myself, that have hardware that will NOT run anything after Win98? I have a p133 laptop that I use for web, email, etc, that cannot run Win2k (it gets to the text boot screen and freezes). Looks like MS is forcing me to upgrade my hardware too? Not cool.
The same thing happens in every other industry, why is it so shocking that it happens with software too??
You can't take your 1981 BMW to the BMW dealer for repairs - they'll tell you to go to a local independant BMW specialist.
You can't take your Nintendo (no... not N64, not SNES, but original NES) back to Nintendo and say hey - I found a bug, you need to fix it!
And you can't take your NVidia TNT2 card back to NVidia and expect them to fix a firmware bug that you found.
Products do have lifecycles, and FIVE years (in the case of win98) is a pretty long support cycle for low-cost consumer grade software.
Unlike the BMW though, there can't be any local independant Win98 support specialists - because M$ holds all the code.
What about the disproportionate sentencing laws that say if you use cocaine (mostly white people) you get a slap on the wrist but if you an equivalent amount of crack (mostly black people) you go to jail for 10 years?
And what about Marijuana? It's equally popular among blacks and whites, is less harmful than alcohol, yet people are doing time for it? I don't think the law is perfect, but I don't think it targets any particular segment of the population. BTW I'm also curious where you got your numbers on white people using cocaine while black people use crack. I used to be good friends with a very poor black man who wouldn't come anywhere near crack - but he loved coke.
While the drug laws are certainly not perfect (what laws are??), I dont think theyre "wrong".
Pointing out the evidence implicating Israel in 9/11.
Unfortunately, that "evidence" is a null string.
Pointing out that the war on drugs is genocide.
I think not. It's a war against drug dealers and drug users. If you aren't a user or dealer of illegal drugs, you shouldn't have a problem.
Pointing out that feminism has ruined America.
In what sense? I disagree with you here, but maybe you can provide some specific examples.
NOTE: There is a difference between heresy and lunacy, although the two do converge in several places.
Its called a firewall, I know, its quite a concept but it works! No Windows box of mine has been hit by it, but maybe thats because I run an SUS server so the machine never needs to have an Internet connection to update.
Right. Your average Ma and Pa who just got their new Packard-Bell from CompUSA has a firewall and a SUS server. Anything you say.
I would think that msblast makes up a larger amount of the applications with network connections. I work for an ISP and there a still many customers who are afflicted with that virus.
Agreed. You should see the incoming access logs from my firewall. There are hundreds of attempts per week from random IP's which are hitting ports like 17300, 901, 35xxx, 6129, etc. which are known ports that viruses/worms use. It amazes me the number of unpatched Windoze systems out there. How does the buyer of a new PC get it online at home without catching 3 worms in the first 10 seconds??
GTA is the right course of action, but perhaps making it an "18+ ID required at checkout" type of item may help." I agree, there, but then, it isn't a game for kids, and the ratings do indicate that...
Agreed, however many parents today rely on "the system" to keep adult materials (like GTA) out of the hands of their kids. The system is not always effective at doing this. Now these parents should step up and act like real parents and stop relying on the system to protect their kids - but the fact remains. Therefore, I believe that we need more strict controls to keep games/simulations/whatever of strong violence out of their hands.
Naked breasts trapped in green alien crust that span in enemies when you hit them with a rocket launcher. A large blue queen aquatic alien dispatched by jamming a pipe bomb up her birth canal. Yeah, if it weren't for the normal and healthy sexual content of Duke Nukem I wouldn't be the man I am today.
I wasn't implying that Duke Nukem was "clean".
I was merely trying to point out that between the two most controversial types of content for minors (violent and sexual), I personally video violent content as being much worse than normal sexual content. The examples you give above are certainly not "normal". By normal sexual content, I mean images of nude people. Not alien sex. Not bestiality. Not pipe bombs in birth canals.
Why the heck would they want to ban GTA while I see worse things every day when I go to my local CompUSA. I mean Duke Nukem 3d had women flashing or pole dancing in it, and I still see that on the shelf when I go to CompUSA. In GTA3, at most, with women, you see a van shaking back and forth. What is this world coming to ?
Naked breasts are a very different thing from killing cops and running people over. If I had kids (I don't), I would much rather them be exposed to normal sexual content rather than extreme violence and carnage - even if it is just a video game.
I'm a strong free speach advocate (making regular donations to the EFF - I encourage everyone to do the same), when we have high-schoolers shooting each other on school grounds, something needs to be done about the violence that kids get exposed to.
I'm don't think that banning GTA is the right course of action, but perhaps making it an "18+ ID required at checkout" type of item may help.
Isn't a European car that gets good mileage the wrong car for a right-winger to own? Perhaps you make up for it by fueling it with freshly squeezed kitten oil.
It's actually a new kitten oil / endangered sea turtle oil blend.
If you say so. My two datapoints are co-workers, one with an 02 bug, the other with an Insight. The bug gets awesome mileage, but doesn't actually reach "50 mpg" territory. I'm far more interested in torque than mileage, so neither of these vehicles appeal to me.
The milage of your co-workers bug will also depend on how many miles are on the car. I did not begin to see 50 mpg until I had about 15k miles on the car. Diesel engines take a while to get broken in, much longer than gas.
If the 150 lb/ft of torque in the 1.9 TDI isn't enough for you, wait until next year - VW is introducing a new 2.0l TDI engine which gets a claimed 54 MPG and 247 lb/ft of torque - almost 100 lb of torque more than the current model.
Okay, I'm biased, but I can't wait until we see him in prison.
I'm also biased. I'd like to see him strung up by the balls and used as a pinata.
I guess that's why I'm not a Judge in a criminal court. Oh well. Might be fun though...
Partly because the Honda actually accomplishes the mileage, while the VW merely "approaches" it. Based on my personal observations of the cars, only.
I see a solid 50 mpg in my '03 Jetta TDI. But I do almost exclusively highway driving. YMMV in mixed driving conditions.
The smaller TDI engines in europe (1.2l and 1.4l) are much more economical than the 1.9l VW TDI engine in the US. The euro cars , depending on model, get anywhere from 60 to 100 mpg.
The killing in the article is accidental. Killing an animal for no other reason than to eat it is cruel and wrong.
Killing an animal to eat it is one of the best reasons to kill an animal. Killing animals for fun is bad, but for food is not bad.
Conservation still makes the most sense to me. We should get serious about reducing our energy needs with government incentives for energy efficiency.
Agreed. But it has to be consistant. Why does a 50 mile-per-gallon Honda hybrid car qualify for a tax deduction, but a 50 mile-per-gallon Volkswagen turbo-diesel car does not? In europe, VW/Audi are producing cars which get 100 miles per gallon (the lupo 1.2 TDI) which also meet the uber-strict euro-4 emissions standards.
I don't know about you, but when a Ford Explorer rolls over and slams into me, I'd much rather be in a big-ass Audi A6 TDI getting 50 miles per gallon than a tiny tin-can honda hybrid which gets the same fuel economy.
There is nothing wrong with using hydrocarbon based energy, so long as it is super efficient and clean. That represents an extremely small portion of the current hydrocarbon consuming cars / power plants.
If the turbines killed three people a day... ...well, we'd probably accept that, too, just as we do for cars.
Cars kill people because of human error. Very very very rarely does a vehicle malfunction causing the death of the occupants.
This includes SUV roll overs. It's your own damn stupidity using an off-road vehicle with high ground clearance for a commuting car / grocery-getter.
Exploding Ford pintos and faulty Firestone tires - those are due to equipment malfunction (or more precisely, failed engineering). But neither of those events had anyone "probably accept that too". Massive lawsuits and large-scale negative press were the result of those.
On the kill three people a day note, the pollution from burning coal has probably killed three people a day (certainly if you include the coal mining fatalities).
They should put these things up in New York City. Maybe then we can kill off some of these damn pigeons. They make a mockery of city statues and newly waxed cars. Rats with wings I call them.