You may already have known this and just used this as an opportunity to crack an RMS joke, but for those that don't - RMS is one of several ways that the maximum output of a piece of stereo equipment is rated. In general RMS is the rating you want to look for - basically think of it as how loud you can crank them before the signal starts to distort.
It's especially important to watch for this with computer speakers as manufacturers have a tendency to rate these units with PMPO which makes the units sound far more impressive than they actually are. "1000W" desktop speakers for $6.99 anyone?:)
my current personal system == Athlon 2600 with the retail HSF. Despite living in the south and being in a room where the A/C doesn't circulate well, this thing only runs in the mid 50s. The small builder I work for here deals exclusively in AMD systems (read: no P4s) and I can't remember a system ever coming back due to overheating problems. Like another poster in the thread said, if you're having major heating problems and you're not overclocking, there's something wrong with the way you've installed the parts.
And you have missed the point completely. For one, the link you provided is the main page to the US Supreme court, so I'm not sure as to what that was supposed to prove one way or another. Secondly, the issue at hand was the nationwide count, not the Florida count, and in that case, Gore most definitely got more votes than Bush. To the tune of over half a million. Final vote count listings can be found here.
I also found this which sums things up rather well. Bush won the election, but he did not have more total votes, which was the assertion being made.
Clinton had a plurality, meaning while he didn't have over 50% over vote, he had more votes than any other candidate. In 2000, Gore received to the tune of 500,000 more votes than Bush nationwide. Yes, you're right, the popular vote doesn't really matter. You parent poster was just correcting the grandparent's incorrect statement that "Bush got more votes," when in fact, he had a half million fewer votes than Gore.
You may realize this, but I'll cover it before someone gets confused - the source does not have to be made available to "anybody who asks." It must be made available to those who receive a binary distribution of the software. Quite a bit of difference there.
As someone with an actual diagnosis of ADHD, I take offense to the idea that all ADD people are easily distracted by shin.... ooooh, look! A new slashdot article!
Actual, the initial judgement did call for the OS and other parts of MS to be broken into two seperate companies, but the court of appeals overturned that judgement, deciding that "bad Billy, bad!!" was a more appropriate punishment instead.
So I can just walk into the headquarters of Microsoft and start playing with their servers? Cool!
Somehow I don't think MS Security/Redmond Police/Judges/any sane person would agree.
You evidently didn't read your parent poster very carefully. The conversation had already drifted from private property to public assembly (the $150 public assembly permit in NYC comment). They were pointing out that the constitutional right to freely assemble in public is being slowly torn apart, and most people just seem not to care.
I was about to make a post saying the exact same thing you have. I think the web taking the place of phone communications is a more interesting thing than comparing it to TV (Which believe it or not, some people don't watch much of even without internet access).
In my circle of friends, I'd say a good 80-90% of the time we plan things online, with phones only being used when someone isn't at their computer or if we're already out and call the other's cell to directly ask "Where the hell are you??":) I think the web is interesting in this aspect to kids because while with the phone, you can only talk to one other (or two with three way calling) people at a time, whereas online, it's not unusual for me to be carrying on distinct conversations with 5 or 6 people at one time. I guess it just lends further credence to the idea that this generation WANTS what would be considered an information overload to past generations.
I've been encouraged to see over the last couple of years that a number of independent, non-RIAA labels have been growing at a rather considerable rate. Labels that are actually able to leverage for shelf space at the local cd shop. Jade Tree, Epitaph, Fat Wreck Chords, SideOneDummy, Sub-City, Hopeless Records, No Idea Records... the impressive thing, to me, being that these are all store bought CDs, all off independent labels, and they're only the ones that happen to be sitting on my desk at the moment. This is a very, very good thing for me.
There are a number of bands out there right now that I've been into for years that have recently signed to RIAA backed labels and released new albums, which if it weren't for the label, I'd have bought in an instant, but when there's such a rich collection of music available from independent labels, I find it much easier on my conscience to spend my $15 on a disc that a much higher percentage of the proceeds will go to the artist (50-50 is not unheard of in indy land. Nay, some indie artists actually have deals going 60-40 in the artists' favor and beyond) and the fact that my money will go towards supporting an independent label - allowing them to back more bands, rather than simply feeding the Beast(TM). The end result for me either way is that I get music that I like, and provide stimuli for an expansion of the amount of music available from non-RIAA sources. This is a Good Thing.
Umm.... D3 from the start has been built around pixel shading, which would require at LEAST a GF3. The TNT2 was a great card (I still have one that I use), but the lack of hardware T&L had it rendered useless for new engines well over a year ago. The UT2K3 engine requiring hardware T&L is actually the reason why I finally upgraded.... to a GF2.:)
I don't see this as "French arrogance" so much as the French trying to prevent their language from turning into a bunch of English words arranged with French grammar. The French aren't the only ones worried about this. German, for example, tends to simply "Germanize" the spelling of English word for anything new. (Do note that IANANGS - I am not a native German speaker) The result being that there are a lot of German words that are essentially the same as the English words. The worry is that, after a while, the language will cease to really be German anymore.
The easiest comparison to what the French are doing, and why, that I can think of is the example of telephone. The "actual" German word is Fernsprechen (ie: curriel), but the more "common" usage is Telefon. I don't see this as anything limited to the French, nor do I see it as arrogance. It's simply trying to keep their language from becoming something that it is not.
That'd be Machiavelli, and Machiavellian policy just plain does not work in modern international relations. That is, unless it's your goal to cause the rest of the world to work towards undermining you.
If you think it's lacking insight, you're missing the point. At this point, the our greatest accomplishment in regard to the whole Iraq situation is simply further pissing off the rest of the world. Heavy-handed US foreign policy is what lead to a 9/11 situation in the first place, and we're treading down that same path again. As the original poster pointed out, Saddam was a bad guy, but we're in this mess because we've SUPPORTED worse. Neighboring Iran is a prime example. The comment was insightful because it stated rather simply the overall effect of our invasion of Iraq.
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You may already have known this and just used this as an opportunity to crack an RMS joke, but for those that don't - RMS is one of several ways that the maximum output of a piece of stereo equipment is rated. In general RMS is the rating you want to look for - basically think of it as how loud you can crank them before the signal starts to distort.
:)
It's especially important to watch for this with computer speakers as manufacturers have a tendency to rate these units with PMPO which makes the units sound far more impressive than they actually are. "1000W" desktop speakers for $6.99 anyone?
In the USB slot. ;)
my current personal system == Athlon 2600 with the retail HSF. Despite living in the south and being in a room where the A/C doesn't circulate well, this thing only runs in the mid 50s. The small builder I work for here deals exclusively in AMD systems (read: no P4s) and I can't remember a system ever coming back due to overheating problems. Like another poster in the thread said, if you're having major heating problems and you're not overclocking, there's something wrong with the way you've installed the parts.
Ah, gotcha. It just didn't come across in text, and there are enough zealots around here that you can never be sure. :)
And you have missed the point completely. For one, the link you provided is the main page to the US Supreme court, so I'm not sure as to what that was supposed to prove one way or another. Secondly, the issue at hand was the nationwide count, not the Florida count, and in that case, Gore most definitely got more votes than Bush. To the tune of over half a million. Final vote count listings can be found here.
I also found this which sums things up rather well. Bush won the election, but he did not have more total votes, which was the assertion being made.
Clinton had a plurality, meaning while he didn't have over 50% over vote, he had more votes than any other candidate. In 2000, Gore received to the tune of 500,000 more votes than Bush nationwide. Yes, you're right, the popular vote doesn't really matter. You parent poster was just correcting the grandparent's incorrect statement that "Bush got more votes," when in fact, he had a half million fewer votes than Gore.
You may realize this, but I'll cover it before someone gets confused - the source does not have to be made available to "anybody who asks." It must be made available to those who receive a binary distribution of the software. Quite a bit of difference there.
As someone with an actual diagnosis of ADHD, I take offense to the idea that all ADD people are easily distracted by shin.... ooooh, look! A new slashdot article!
Before this gets modded offtopic, it's an Italian Job reference. Meaning, if you needed this explanation, go see the movie. :)
Actual, the initial judgement did call for the OS and other parts of MS to be broken into two seperate companies, but the court of appeals overturned that judgement, deciding that "bad Billy, bad!!" was a more appropriate punishment instead.
Anyone who can start a serious discussion with this phrase is far more geek than I shall ever be. I bow down. =)
So I can just walk into the headquarters of Microsoft and start playing with their servers? Cool! Somehow I don't think MS Security/Redmond Police/Judges/any sane person would agree.
Mmmmm broken slashcode. Gotta love it, eh? :)
You evidently didn't read your parent poster very carefully. The conversation had already drifted from private property to public assembly (the $150 public assembly permit in NYC comment). They were pointing out that the constitutional right to freely assemble in public is being slowly torn apart, and most people just seem not to care.
I was about to make a post saying the exact same thing you have. I think the web taking the place of phone communications is a more interesting thing than comparing it to TV (Which believe it or not, some people don't watch much of even without internet access). In my circle of friends, I'd say a good 80-90% of the time we plan things online, with phones only being used when someone isn't at their computer or if we're already out and call the other's cell to directly ask "Where the hell are you??" :) I think the web is interesting in this aspect to kids because while with the phone, you can only talk to one other (or two with three way calling) people at a time, whereas online, it's not unusual for me to be carrying on distinct conversations with 5 or 6 people at one time. I guess it just lends further credence to the idea that this generation WANTS what would be considered an information overload to past generations.
Take your post, replace 'radio' with 'mp3/cd player'. Now you have the answer to "so low?" in regards to radio.
I've been encouraged to see over the last couple of years that a number of independent, non-RIAA labels have been growing at a rather considerable rate. Labels that are actually able to leverage for shelf space at the local cd shop. Jade Tree, Epitaph, Fat Wreck Chords, SideOneDummy, Sub-City, Hopeless Records, No Idea Records... the impressive thing, to me, being that these are all store bought CDs, all off independent labels, and they're only the ones that happen to be sitting on my desk at the moment. This is a very, very good thing for me.
There are a number of bands out there right now that I've been into for years that have recently signed to RIAA backed labels and released new albums, which if it weren't for the label, I'd have bought in an instant, but when there's such a rich collection of music available from independent labels, I find it much easier on my conscience to spend my $15 on a disc that a much higher percentage of the proceeds will go to the artist (50-50 is not unheard of in indy land. Nay, some indie artists actually have deals going 60-40 in the artists' favor and beyond) and the fact that my money will go towards supporting an independent label - allowing them to back more bands, rather than simply feeding the Beast(TM). The end result for me either way is that I get music that I like, and provide stimuli for an expansion of the amount of music available from non-RIAA sources. This is a Good Thing.
Umm.... D3 from the start has been built around pixel shading, which would require at LEAST a GF3. The TNT2 was a great card (I still have one that I use), but the lack of hardware T&L had it rendered useless for new engines well over a year ago. The UT2K3 engine requiring hardware T&L is actually the reason why I finally upgraded.... to a GF2. :)
iD isn't. Their publisher is.
I don't see this as "French arrogance" so much as the French trying to prevent their language from turning into a bunch of English words arranged with French grammar. The French aren't the only ones worried about this. German, for example, tends to simply "Germanize" the spelling of English word for anything new. (Do note that IANANGS - I am not a native German speaker) The result being that there are a lot of German words that are essentially the same as the English words. The worry is that, after a while, the language will cease to really be German anymore.
The easiest comparison to what the French are doing, and why, that I can think of is the example of telephone. The "actual" German word is Fernsprechen (ie: curriel), but the more "common" usage is Telefon. I don't see this as anything limited to the French, nor do I see it as arrogance. It's simply trying to keep their language from becoming something that it is not.
Nice to be given advice by a lunatic. Have a nice day.
That'd be Machiavelli, and Machiavellian policy just plain does not work in modern international relations. That is, unless it's your goal to cause the rest of the world to work towards undermining you.
LOL No. Bush was governer of Texas, but Ken Lay was a close "associate" of his.
If it makes you feel any better, I read it as "telnet" as first too. =)
If you think it's lacking insight, you're missing the point. At this point, the our greatest accomplishment in regard to the whole Iraq situation is simply further pissing off the rest of the world. Heavy-handed US foreign policy is what lead to a 9/11 situation in the first place, and we're treading down that same path again. As the original poster pointed out, Saddam was a bad guy, but we're in this mess because we've SUPPORTED worse. Neighboring Iran is a prime example. The comment was insightful because it stated rather simply the overall effect of our invasion of Iraq.