You can sing about whatever you want, so long as you don't make it blatantly obvious what you are singing about. It's the same method employed by poets and playwrights, for centuries.
I live in Canada, and they sell tons of un-edited explicit content CDs. They also sell the "radio-edit/clean" versions alongside them, but you have the choice of which one you want to buy. Just like on iTunes. I've always assumed things were the same in the United States.
Not only youtube, but with H.264, it would be possible to create a nice little browser based media server. I currently am using a flash solution, which technically works fine, but the video quality is pretty terrible.
The truth is, 128 KBit AAC is pretty low fidelity sound. But it didn't stop apple from selling 3 billion songs. CD Quality is low fidelity compared to SACD and DVD-Audio. Most CDs are put so loud in the mastering process, that most of the waveforms are severely clipped, creating terrible sound. My point is, most people either don't notice, or don't care. CDs took over tapes because they didn't wear out, and because you could skip to any track. DVDs took over VHS for pretty much the same reasons. HD-DVD and blu-ray don't offer any functional advantages over DVD, only differences in quality. And that's not something most people are willing to pay for.
Exactly, the 2:1 sales ratio doesn't mean much when they sold so few units. It would be like comparing Mac computer sales to Linux computer sales, and forgetting to mention that windows sales are still through the roof. The simple fact is that most people don't care about HD movies. Same way they didn't care about HD Audio. There's just too little of a quality difference for most people to justify the inflated price, and a format war doesn't help the situation in the slightest.
While I think it would be great for them to give soldiers some of their limbs back, if even in limited form, It seems that these appendages won't quite give them back what they once had for many years to come. How long until they can curl 50 lbs. How long until they have enough control to play video games, or type, or even just operate a remote control. Seems to me the 30 million would be better spent researching ways to stops getting into so many wars.
A criminal background check probably wouldn't help much. You are right. However, they should do other checks. They should make it more difficult to prove that you are who you say you are. Giving them a ssn, dob, and mother's maiden name shouldn't be valid credentials for determining your identity. They don't accept that when giving you a driver's license or passport, and it shouldn't be accepted when applying for credit. It is entirely too easy to get credit under a false identity. In the same way that people are expected to not follow phishing emails, and always check that the website they are logging into is in fact the bank's website, the banks should be required to be a lot more diligent on verifying the identity of the person applying for credit.
I'm assuming they no longer run natural gas though those pipes. Having natural gas along with copper wires carrying electrical signals could be quite dangerous.
However, with cellphone networks, it's easy to have your own little internal network for your country, and then switch to something else to communicate with the rest of the world. However, the Internet is more global, and if everybody isn't using the same technologies (http, tcp/ip, smtp, etc) to communicate, then things get hard to manage. You could have some sort of translation utility to communicate between Japan and the outside world, but I don't think it could work very well for things that require end-to-end encryption like ssl and https.
However, with the way things are going, unless you keep that old software (and operating systems) around so that you can open those files at a later date. If you're worried about printed documents matching the files, you'd be better off converting them to PDF as you get them, to ensure that they match what was printed. THere's been many times when I've opened word files on newer version of Word, only to have my documents look different then they used to.
I'm from Canada, which is why I responded to the whole "I Am Canadian" post. I don't know anybody who started drinking Molson Canadian because of those commercials. I forgot about the trendy group. The people who buy beers (Stella, Keiths, Moosehead), because they are advertised as being better beers, or from smaller breweries. People drink them to be hip, not because they like the taste. Personally, my fave is Caledonian 80.
According to the HTTP 1.1 RFC, you're allowed to have 2 connections open to any 1 webserver (public facing IP). This is the way most browsers are configured by default. So there shouldn't be any problems with a user opening too many connections to your website. If they are, they are breaking the standard and deserve to get kicked. I also agree though, that if there is content coming from multiple servers, the browser should do it's best to try to download from all those servers simultaneously.
I'm not sure how beer sales are affected. Most people that I know drink what their dad drank, and what his dad drank, and what his dad drank. I think the only ads making any influence on people's beer buying descisions are the 24 cans for $24 or the 28 cans for the price of 24. Most people just want to get drunk for cheap. Those that are interested in really having great tasting beers aren't persuaded by commercials. Most of the beer I drink I've never seen a commercial for.
Not only that, fake ATMs have been set up to steal people's account number and PIN. Really there should be some sort of challenge-response smart card for your banking card that won't return the account number to machines which can't prove they are authentic.
A single ATM probably doesn't handle $1 Billion in a day. However, a single voting machine doesn't handle 150 million votes in a day. But, lets say that each person who uses an ATM has a transaction amount of $20 (that's the minimum for most withdrawals). According to >MSNBC there are 370,000 ATMs in the United States. So if each one does 10 transactions a day, then that's 3.7 Million transactions, which makes $74 Million a day (assuming $20 transactions). Or $27 Billion a year. The voting machines only have to handle 150 million votes, on one day, once every 4 years.
Oh, that is interesting. I've seen articles that it's now possible to do Van Eck Phreaking on LCD displays as well as CRTs. Any voting method that allows voting to be monitored from the next room doesn't sound like a secret ballot to me.
What I meant when I said that Vista without Aero was painfully slow, was that it's slow enough without Aero, I'd hate to see how slow it was if I turned on Aero. My main point is, is that for some reason Linux can pull off a full 3D desktop with more flash and features than Aero (Rain, Adjustable transparency, wobbly moving windows, Rotating cube for multiple desktops, etc...) yet requires way less resources to do it. Barring any driver problems, it works flawlessly on a machine with half the horsepower even needed to try to use Aero. My biggest problem is why does Vista run so slow, when all the other OSes (Linux, MacOS) seem to be able to run so fast? You shouldn't need 1 GB of RAM just to run your OS and a browser. There is absolutely no reason for that.
I had a friend who went to a private high school. According to him, the only difference between public school and private school, was that in private school, the kids had more money to spend on drugs.
In Ontario we recently started making our high school students choose work force, college, or university upon entrance to high school. That's community college or univerity/college for the people in the US. I thought that was a little extreme. From what I understand, it's pretty hard to switch once you've chosen your path. So if you choose college, and then all of a sudden in grade 10 you find something in University that you're really interested in, it's almost impossible to actually switch over to that curriculum.
Not so at all. I have Mandriva 2007 spring with Compiz, and the animations are completely smooth. That's on a Celeron M 520 1.60GHz, with 512 MB of RAM, and an Intel GMA 950 video card. No way it would run vista with Aero. Vista without Aero is painfully slow. With Mandriva, I've never seen it slow down at all. It usually has a CPU usage of under 10%, but if I do a lot of 3D desktop stuff, it will sometimes get to 50%.
Since gravity is constant on earth we would only have to worry about speed, but also angle of liftoff. The optimal angle accounting for air resistance is about 32 degrees (I think).
Actually, it couldn't go under 50 mph. They had to bring it up to 70 so they could jump the bridge. I think 70 was the fastest they could get it being that they didn't have much room to accelerate after the onramp, and it was a big beast of a bus travelling uphill, with a bunch of people on it. 70 mph = 112 km/h, which is pretty fast for a city bus. While they can go pretty fast, I wouldn't expect they could go much faster than 150-160 km/h.
I've always found the idea of a standardized curriculum to be a little odd. I live in Canada, And while things are somewhat standardized (everyone reads Romeo and Juliet in highschool), there isn't some set list of exactly every single thing every student is supposed to know. I would rather they lay out some basic guidelines. Like at what age a child should learn reading, different math skills, geography (local, state, national, international), history (same as geography), and certain concepts in science. But I wouldn't want the school turning out kids who learned the exact same things all over the country, down to exactly which novels they read, which animals they dissected, and which math problems they did. Standardization is nice, but it can go too far.
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You can sing about whatever you want, so long as you don't make it blatantly obvious what you are singing about. It's the same method employed by poets and playwrights, for centuries.
I live in Canada, and they sell tons of un-edited explicit content CDs. They also sell the "radio-edit/clean" versions alongside them, but you have the choice of which one you want to buy. Just like on iTunes. I've always assumed things were the same in the United States.
Not only youtube, but with H.264, it would be possible to create a nice little browser based media server. I currently am using a flash solution, which technically works fine, but the video quality is pretty terrible.
The truth is, 128 KBit AAC is pretty low fidelity sound. But it didn't stop apple from selling 3 billion songs. CD Quality is low fidelity compared to SACD and DVD-Audio. Most CDs are put so loud in the mastering process, that most of the waveforms are severely clipped, creating terrible sound. My point is, most people either don't notice, or don't care. CDs took over tapes because they didn't wear out, and because you could skip to any track. DVDs took over VHS for pretty much the same reasons. HD-DVD and blu-ray don't offer any functional advantages over DVD, only differences in quality. And that's not something most people are willing to pay for.
Exactly, the 2:1 sales ratio doesn't mean much when they sold so few units. It would be like comparing Mac computer sales to Linux computer sales, and forgetting to mention that windows sales are still through the roof. The simple fact is that most people don't care about HD movies. Same way they didn't care about HD Audio. There's just too little of a quality difference for most people to justify the inflated price, and a format war doesn't help the situation in the slightest.
While I think it would be great for them to give soldiers some of their limbs back, if even in limited form, It seems that these appendages won't quite give them back what they once had for many years to come. How long until they can curl 50 lbs. How long until they have enough control to play video games, or type, or even just operate a remote control. Seems to me the 30 million would be better spent researching ways to stops getting into so many wars.
A criminal background check probably wouldn't help much. You are right. However, they should do other checks. They should make it more difficult to prove that you are who you say you are. Giving them a ssn, dob, and mother's maiden name shouldn't be valid credentials for determining your identity. They don't accept that when giving you a driver's license or passport, and it shouldn't be accepted when applying for credit. It is entirely too easy to get credit under a false identity. In the same way that people are expected to not follow phishing emails, and always check that the website they are logging into is in fact the bank's website, the banks should be required to be a lot more diligent on verifying the identity of the person applying for credit.
I'm assuming they no longer run natural gas though those pipes. Having natural gas along with copper wires carrying electrical signals could be quite dangerous.
Gives this shirt a whole new meaning.
However, with cellphone networks, it's easy to have your own little internal network for your country, and then switch to something else to communicate with the rest of the world. However, the Internet is more global, and if everybody isn't using the same technologies (http, tcp/ip, smtp, etc) to communicate, then things get hard to manage. You could have some sort of translation utility to communicate between Japan and the outside world, but I don't think it could work very well for things that require end-to-end encryption like ssl and https.
However, with the way things are going, unless you keep that old software (and operating systems) around so that you can open those files at a later date. If you're worried about printed documents matching the files, you'd be better off converting them to PDF as you get them, to ensure that they match what was printed. THere's been many times when I've opened word files on newer version of Word, only to have my documents look different then they used to.
I'm from Canada, which is why I responded to the whole "I Am Canadian" post. I don't know anybody who started drinking Molson Canadian because of those commercials. I forgot about the trendy group. The people who buy beers (Stella, Keiths, Moosehead), because they are advertised as being better beers, or from smaller breweries. People drink them to be hip, not because they like the taste. Personally, my fave is Caledonian 80.
According to the HTTP 1.1 RFC, you're allowed to have 2 connections open to any 1 webserver (public facing IP). This is the way most browsers are configured by default. So there shouldn't be any problems with a user opening too many connections to your website. If they are, they are breaking the standard and deserve to get kicked. I also agree though, that if there is content coming from multiple servers, the browser should do it's best to try to download from all those servers simultaneously.
I'm not sure how beer sales are affected. Most people that I know drink what their dad drank, and what his dad drank, and what his dad drank. I think the only ads making any influence on people's beer buying descisions are the 24 cans for $24 or the 28 cans for the price of 24. Most people just want to get drunk for cheap. Those that are interested in really having great tasting beers aren't persuaded by commercials. Most of the beer I drink I've never seen a commercial for.
No, that name is already taken for Point Of Sale systems. Most of them fit their name pretty well.
Not only that, fake ATMs have been set up to steal people's account number and PIN. Really there should be some sort of challenge-response smart card for your banking card that won't return the account number to machines which can't prove they are authentic.
A single ATM probably doesn't handle $1 Billion in a day. However, a single voting machine doesn't handle 150 million votes in a day. But, lets say that each person who uses an ATM has a transaction amount of $20 (that's the minimum for most withdrawals). According to >MSNBC there are 370,000 ATMs in the United States. So if each one does 10 transactions a day, then that's 3.7 Million transactions, which makes $74 Million a day (assuming $20 transactions). Or $27 Billion a year. The voting machines only have to handle 150 million votes, on one day, once every 4 years.
Oh, that is interesting. I've seen articles that it's now possible to do Van Eck Phreaking on LCD displays as well as CRTs. Any voting method that allows voting to be monitored from the next room doesn't sound like a secret ballot to me.
What I meant when I said that Vista without Aero was painfully slow, was that it's slow enough without Aero, I'd hate to see how slow it was if I turned on Aero. My main point is, is that for some reason Linux can pull off a full 3D desktop with more flash and features than Aero (Rain, Adjustable transparency, wobbly moving windows, Rotating cube for multiple desktops, etc...) yet requires way less resources to do it. Barring any driver problems, it works flawlessly on a machine with half the horsepower even needed to try to use Aero. My biggest problem is why does Vista run so slow, when all the other OSes (Linux, MacOS) seem to be able to run so fast? You shouldn't need 1 GB of RAM just to run your OS and a browser. There is absolutely no reason for that.
I had a friend who went to a private high school. According to him, the only difference between public school and private school, was that in private school, the kids had more money to spend on drugs.
In Ontario we recently started making our high school students choose work force, college, or university upon entrance to high school. That's community college or univerity/college for the people in the US. I thought that was a little extreme. From what I understand, it's pretty hard to switch once you've chosen your path. So if you choose college, and then all of a sudden in grade 10 you find something in University that you're really interested in, it's almost impossible to actually switch over to that curriculum.
Not so at all. I have Mandriva 2007 spring with Compiz, and the animations are completely smooth. That's on a Celeron M 520 1.60GHz, with 512 MB of RAM, and an Intel GMA 950 video card. No way it would run vista with Aero. Vista without Aero is painfully slow. With Mandriva, I've never seen it slow down at all. It usually has a CPU usage of under 10%, but if I do a lot of 3D desktop stuff, it will sometimes get to 50%.
Since gravity is constant on earth we would only have to worry about speed, but also angle of liftoff. The optimal angle accounting for air resistance is about 32 degrees (I think).
Actually, it couldn't go under 50 mph. They had to bring it up to 70 so they could jump the bridge. I think 70 was the fastest they could get it being that they didn't have much room to accelerate after the onramp, and it was a big beast of a bus travelling uphill, with a bunch of people on it. 70 mph = 112 km/h, which is pretty fast for a city bus. While they can go pretty fast, I wouldn't expect they could go much faster than 150-160 km/h.
I've always found the idea of a standardized curriculum to be a little odd. I live in Canada, And while things are somewhat standardized (everyone reads Romeo and Juliet in highschool), there isn't some set list of exactly every single thing every student is supposed to know. I would rather they lay out some basic guidelines. Like at what age a child should learn reading, different math skills, geography (local, state, national, international), history (same as geography), and certain concepts in science. But I wouldn't want the school turning out kids who learned the exact same things all over the country, down to exactly which novels they read, which animals they dissected, and which math problems they did. Standardization is nice, but it can go too far.