Actually - TFA says "broadcast TV". You know, the networks. A lot of the stuff on "cable" isn't worth watching, by any demographic, so of course the audience for Network programming is skewed towards the older, wiser crowd. Even my 18 year old daughter shakes her head at the crap on MTV, for example. (I tell her it WAS cool, in the 80's, but that is dating myself)
I don't watch much TV either, but I do find I would rather watch something like "House" over the crap on MTV now-a-days. Although, the cable channels like Discovery actually win out in the end.
Most "TV" consumed in my house is first encoded to a disk drive, then watched in as close to 44 minutes per hour as possible.
With the passing of George Carlin, I am reminded that there are at least 7 very offensive words.
So, any license plate that has one or more of these letters is suspect; S, P, F, C, M, or T. (C appears twice in the list, so any license plate that has two Cs in it is especially bad.)
Bureaucrats who worry about this kind of shit are as worthless as tits on a boar. Those cocksucking motherfuckers really piss me off. What a bunch of cunts. Fuck them.
Edit down a "best of" video once in a while. If you don't do it as you go along you never will.
A few good pictures and a handful of short videos become "precious memories".
A slag heap of hundreds of hours of raw material become a burden that someone will eventually stop maintaining because it is such a chore.
Lots of pictures are less of a problem than video both because they are smaller, but because you can look at them faster to see if there are any worth copying, printing etc.
Send copies of your "best of" to friends and family so that you have off-site storage should your house burn down.
Heres a few random tests on some flash drives I have:
a) Sony Tiny 2GB: 6.2 MB/sec
b) SanDisk Cruzer 2GB: 7.1 MB/sec
c) Patriot Xporter 2G: 14.2 MB/sec
d) Patriot Xporter 8G: 11.7 MB/sec
e) PQI 4GB: 1.5 MB/sec
a & b seem like "typical" drives. c was supposed to be fast, and it is! I liked it so much I bought d. Drive e was a big mistake - impulse buy without knowing the specs. It is too slow to use (45 minutes to fill it up.)
Alas, the Patriot 2GB just went in under RMA yesterday. It was the most used, but became unreliable after 18 months.
The crappy PQI stick, by far, has the nicest case - anodized blue aluminum. The Patriot units are kind of bulky rubbery things that are often too fat to fit next to an in-use usb port. I wish they were smaller.
The Sony Micro Vault Tiny units are the best form factor - the size of a thumbnail stuck to just the guts of a usb connector. This unit is great for plugging into the front of the DVD player without fear that someone will walk into it hanging out the front of the stereo shelves.
Anyhow, I will never buy a flash drive again without looking at reviews and speed ratings to at least have some hope that it is no worse than average, and I will pay extra for faster.
What is the current status of producing "fake ID", for non-fraudulent reasons? How about general "you must produce ID" law? I know it has been getting harder and harder to be legally anonymous the last few years. If you are a "regular looking white guy" you can probably get by for a few more years...
Seems to me, making up names was no crime, if you weren't trying to get away with anything. I imagine committing it to paper, however, is a problem.
I suppose producing "fake ID" for domestic air travel ID, in the US is a crime, even if you have no other motive than "privacy", right?
Yahoo users - don't be fooled by simple "Web 2.0", and "AJAX" magic. It's just a bunch of javascripts refreshing your browswer... on a time delay.
On occasion, I have seen quotes for FDRXX (money market fund) report 123,000%+ on finance.yahoo.com, so you still have to think once in a while, as wonderful as the Internet is, it is not perfect.
And to be a bit off-topic and rambling, it will not be technical hurdles that "kill" the Internet, it will be lawyers and legislators, mark my words.
I doubt you can even buy the same science kits anymore.
My brother and I had hours of fun doing all sorts of "science", but it usually ended it burning or blowing up something.We probably took years off our lives hacking out great clouds of purple smoke from god knows what... but it usually involved sulpher and potasium chloride, and magnesium (gotta let the retinas get some fun too - no use ruining just your lungs.)
We did eventually develop an appreciation for goggles, ventilation and gloves.
Back then, the cops would just say "don't launch rockets in your yard anymore" and that was it.
I also remember carrying.22 rifles thru suburban San Diego, on the way to a gravel pit for plinking. Only once were we stopped by a sheriff, who admonished us to make sure those weapons were unloaded and to go home.
This was all just a couple of years before Brenda Spencer of "I Don't Like Mondays" fame. Talk about ruining it for the rest of us.
I think we even had some Jarts.
If we did that now, we'd be surrounded by SWAT and branded terrorists. Same stuff, different perceptions.
Ah... it seems to me, Doolittle...
Sorry, I've drawn a blank. Hold it.
I'll have it again in a minute. I
forget so many things in here, so
many things. Hold on, just a minute,
let me think...
Well, your honor, I thought I was working on a SETI project, you know, searching for ET. Damn if I didn't discover it was just HBO, not aliens, after all.
I am guessing that whatever magic hex string is used for creating authentication keys/session keys/cookie keys, or whatever is not the same as it was before.
No, I can't explain better than that, those details are for sys admins to deal with. I just know enough to be dangerous.
The maximum length of this competition test will be two weeks. At that stage we'll we'll take a hair dryer to it, turn the heating up in the room, anything to make it crash!
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I don't watch much TV either, but I do find I would rather watch something like "House" over the crap on MTV now-a-days. Although, the cable channels like Discovery actually win out in the end.
Most "TV" consumed in my house is first encoded to a disk drive, then watched in as close to 44 minutes per hour as possible.
So, any license plate that has one or more of these letters is suspect; S, P, F, C, M, or T. (C appears twice in the list, so any license plate that has two Cs in it is especially bad.)
Bureaucrats who worry about this kind of shit are as worthless as tits on a boar. Those cocksucking motherfuckers really piss me off. What a bunch of cunts. Fuck them.
TLD is a TLA.
A few good pictures and a handful of short videos become "precious memories".
A slag heap of hundreds of hours of raw material become a burden that someone will eventually stop maintaining because it is such a chore.
Lots of pictures are less of a problem than video both because they are smaller, but because you can look at them faster to see if there are any worth copying, printing etc.
Send copies of your "best of" to friends and family so that you have off-site storage should your house burn down.
a) Sony Tiny 2GB: 6.2 MB/sec
b) SanDisk Cruzer 2GB: 7.1 MB/sec
c) Patriot Xporter 2G: 14.2 MB/sec
d) Patriot Xporter 8G: 11.7 MB/sec
e) PQI 4GB: 1.5 MB/sec
a & b seem like "typical" drives. c was supposed to be fast, and it is! I liked it so much I bought d. Drive e was a big mistake - impulse buy without knowing the specs. It is too slow to use (45 minutes to fill it up.)
Alas, the Patriot 2GB just went in under RMA yesterday. It was the most used, but became unreliable after 18 months.
The crappy PQI stick, by far, has the nicest case - anodized blue aluminum. The Patriot units are kind of bulky rubbery things that are often too fat to fit next to an in-use usb port. I wish they were smaller.
The Sony Micro Vault Tiny units are the best form factor - the size of a thumbnail stuck to just the guts of a usb connector. This unit is great for plugging into the front of the DVD player without fear that someone will walk into it hanging out the front of the stereo shelves.
Anyhow, I will never buy a flash drive again without looking at reviews and speed ratings to at least have some hope that it is no worse than average, and I will pay extra for faster.
Ok, I had a bit more than a hand in creating them, but still.
Have you seen the cost of schooling lately! It's killing me.
Just google "Vallejo bankrupt" when you get a chance to get a glimpse at how well legislating economic nonsense works out in the long run.
Clearly some very mean people are not paying their fair share!
It doesn't look like anything special to me. I guess I don't need to upgrade my current monitor.
Seems to me, making up names was no crime, if you weren't trying to get away with anything. I imagine committing it to paper, however, is a problem.
I suppose producing "fake ID" for domestic air travel ID, in the US is a crime, even if you have no other motive than "privacy", right?
The fact that you don't want it coming back to YOU if it all goes to shit and you have to drop it and run.
Please do not play your own life-like maps in your own jurisdiction. Just swap your "High School" map for someone else's and everything is fine.
Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Therefore, the VP must be able to be President...
More Americans speak English than English speak English, go figure.
On occasion, I have seen quotes for FDRXX (money market fund) report 123,000%+ on finance.yahoo.com, so you still have to think once in a while, as wonderful as the Internet is, it is not perfect.
And to be a bit off-topic and rambling, it will not be technical hurdles that "kill" the Internet, it will be lawyers and legislators, mark my words.
I doubt you can even buy the same science kits anymore.
My brother and I had hours of fun doing all sorts of "science", but it usually ended it burning or blowing up something.We probably took years off our lives hacking out great clouds of purple smoke from god knows what... but it usually involved sulpher and potasium chloride, and magnesium (gotta let the retinas get some fun too - no use ruining just your lungs.)
We did eventually develop an appreciation for goggles, ventilation and gloves.
Back then, the cops would just say "don't launch rockets in your yard anymore" and that was it.
I also remember carrying .22 rifles thru suburban San Diego, on the way to a gravel pit for plinking. Only once were we stopped by a sheriff, who admonished us to make sure those weapons were unloaded and to go home.
This was all just a couple of years before Brenda Spencer of "I Don't Like Mondays" fame. Talk about ruining it for the rest of us.
I think we even had some Jarts.
If we did that now, we'd be surrounded by SWAT and branded terrorists. Same stuff, different perceptions.
Oh yeah, Get off my lawn!
Ah... it seems to me, Doolittle... Sorry, I've drawn a blank. Hold it. I'll have it again in a minute. I forget so many things in here, so many things. Hold on, just a minute, let me think...
Well, your honor, I thought I was working on a SETI project, you know, searching for ET. Damn if I didn't discover it was just HBO, not aliens, after all.
Oh, wait, this is a service the FCC will approve only if it is offered for "free"? Then I guess it will be a SPAM sponsored service.
At least there will be some motivation to filter unpaid spam...
Of people who's job can be replaced by a robot.
Or is that more of an environmental thing?
No, I can't explain better than that, those details are for sys admins to deal with. I just know enough to be dangerous.
Logistical? Political? Tax (dis)advantages?
Just curious.
The maximum length of this competition test will be two weeks. At that stage we'll we'll take a hair dryer to it, turn the heating up in the room, anything to make it crash!
It can be either alive or dead or both alive and dead.
We call these three states alive, dead and zombie.
There, I hope that sheds some photons on the matter.
I got him, not you! God! what a karma whore!
Grim Reaper