The number is right, if you RTFA: The dual-layer discs will be slower to burn than single-layer discs -- the drives will be rated as burning at 2.4 times faster than playback speed, versus eight times for single-layer discs.
Though doing the math, then 45 minutes is a bit fast, if you double the amount of time it will take to burn a disc.
He tries to project and image of a "small-government" President? Since when? He touts as his achievements his supposed expansion of Medicare, an amendment to extend federal control over the institution of civil marriage, the creation of a new beaurocracy (the Homeland Security Department), a federal education standards act (and yes, it's cheap for the federal budget thanks to the lack of funding, but that's not something one brags about), widening the invasion of privacy and the scope of the powers of the Justice Department and the expansion of military spending and commitments.
Does he talk about how he's streamlined the government and cut costs, thus restoring fiscal responsibility? Okay, let me rephrase that: does anyone keep a straight face when he talks of his fiscal responsibility? The closest he comes to a "small-government" image are his "faith-based" initiatives and tax-cuts, neither of which are about cutting costs. Well, that and occasionally gutting regulatory agencies, but he tends to brag about the "Healthy Forest Initiative" instead.
That said, if he gets a second term, he might have to abandon Mars anyway, because eventually someone has to start to pay the piper, no matter how much they believe in "borrow and spend" government.
I'm not quite sure how, but I have an image of divx in a WWI-era helmet, holded up in a trench as bombs explode around it in big pixelated blocks and firing at a giant blue Quicktime logo. War is hell.
You need to brush up on your philosophy. Lie has a conventional meaning, and from this we extract the so-called definition. Yet this defintion is A) a stupid one with terrible holes for cases of deliberate deception with untruths that aren't known to be untruthful (because, say, the justification is faulty) or truths believed to be false and probably lots of other cases that mean your definition sucks. And B) definitions of this sort are usually dumb and useless unless you're a mathematician.
True, if lie is defined as a knowingly untruthful statement made with the intent of deceiving, it is a knowingly untruthful statement made with the intent of deceiving, but this isn't really relevant unless it is actually what we mean by lie. I could just as well say "a lie is a hot apple", and point out how you can't unconciously lie because hot apples are hard to come by in the unconcious realm of your mind. But this is silly and pointless. Which is what the reference to Wittgenstein is probably about (who, by the way, is ALSO philosophy).
If you have some moral compunction against using an affiliate link, please have the decency to inform unwitting readers that they won't get any closer to the actual article by clicking on the provided link than they would by leaving Slashdot, going to news.google.com, searching for and executing the link there.
Good Point! You don't get any closer to the actual article by clicking on the link Slashdot provides than clicking on the link anywhere else provides, and they don't even tell us? What is with that bullshit? And another thing: clicking on that link didn't give me several million dollars in cold hard cash, and no one had the decency to warn me. I am not impressed.
I'll bet all those federalists who helped design the consitution would agree with you. I guess all those CHECKS and BALANCES were probably just there for shits and giggles too, not to prevent abuse they knew would happen. And hey, the Civil War was probably fought over slavery!
Not that originalist constitutional interpretation is ever anything besides a buzzword for an "ideology uber alles" mindset.
This was on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me last week. NPR got something wrong, now all my illusions are shattered. Next thing you know, it'll turn out that Click and Clack don't know exactly what's wrong with my car.
That's not a prank, that's just being a shithead. Pranks are supposed to be funny, and what you're describing isn't, it's just stupid and sadistic.
Just because it's sadistic doesn't mean it's stupid, and just because you were FOOLED doesn't mean the person who FOOLED you on April FOOLS is a shithead.
otherwise they'd have commited suicide. If you're really so cynical, why don't you?
if it is, it's a very poor one. Why wouldn't they do something like this? It's a good idea and apparently alot of people want to see it happen.
Which is part of why it IS a good prank. While it didn't fool me (I'm too cynical to believe anything that nice would happen, if they did this, next thing you know pigs fly and Lucasarts goes back to making great adventure games), if a prank like this gets you to believe it, and then lets you down, it's done it's job.
So can we say that "if the RIAA doesn't watch it, they'll find a lot of young people getting pictures of office holders with dead hookers and changing laws."?
And talking about drug users supporting terrorists (wich I am sure some or much of the money might be coming from from various groups, but it isn't like there is a shortage of commodities for them to choose from), that means a lot of people in our goverment are or were agents of the Taliban.
Actually, some members of our government were agents of the Taliban (in the sense that they supported them) when they were trying to STOP drugs. Remember all that money we gave them about year and a half ago?
Yes, they are PA citizens, but are under the rule of Israel. To say that they are all citizens, and could enjoy the same rights is like saying that the american colonists were citizens, just like those in GB, and could enjoy the same rights. PA citizenship is not the same as citizenship of soverign nation, they are in Israel, and Israeli policies, arrived at by non-democratic exclusion of the PA citizens, deprives them of rights. America got founded on the idea that everyone should have the illusion of self-determination, a third of the population of Israel doesn't even have that.
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The dual-layer discs will be slower to burn than single-layer discs -- the drives will be rated as burning at 2.4 times faster than playback speed, versus eight times for single-layer discs.
Though doing the math, then 45 minutes is a bit fast, if you double the amount of time it will take to burn a disc.
Does he talk about how he's streamlined the government and cut costs, thus restoring fiscal responsibility? Okay, let me rephrase that: does anyone keep a straight face when he talks of his fiscal responsibility? The closest he comes to a "small-government" image are his "faith-based" initiatives and tax-cuts, neither of which are about cutting costs. Well, that and occasionally gutting regulatory agencies, but he tends to brag about the "Healthy Forest Initiative" instead.
That said, if he gets a second term, he might have to abandon Mars anyway, because eventually someone has to start to pay the piper, no matter how much they believe in "borrow and spend" government.
I'm not quite sure how, but I have an image of divx in a WWI-era helmet, holded up in a trench as bombs explode around it in big pixelated blocks and firing at a giant blue Quicktime logo. War is hell.
Finally, I can play Toe Jam and Earl the way it was supposed to be played: fast.
I've always thought of that as more of a feature than a bu- slowdown.
You need to brush up on your philosophy. Lie has a conventional meaning, and from this we extract the so-called definition. Yet this defintion is A) a stupid one with terrible holes for cases of deliberate deception with untruths that aren't known to be untruthful (because, say, the justification is faulty) or truths believed to be false and probably lots of other cases that mean your definition sucks. And B) definitions of this sort are usually dumb and useless unless you're a mathematician.
True, if lie is defined as a knowingly untruthful statement made with the intent of deceiving, it is a knowingly untruthful statement made with the intent of deceiving, but this isn't really relevant unless it is actually what we mean by lie. I could just as well say "a lie is a hot apple", and point out how you can't unconciously lie because hot apples are hard to come by in the unconcious realm of your mind. But this is silly and pointless. Which is what the reference to Wittgenstein is probably about (who, by the way, is ALSO philosophy).
Well, Portland is Ground Zero for a lot of rain.
Okay, what was the fifth?
Heart. And what a terrible form of matter that was. All it could do was sit around talking to animals and bosons.
Yeah, I don't understand the insightful bit either.
So now "troll" applies to anyone who fails to be funny?
I'm fairly certian it's sabatoge on the part of the Martians.
Not that originalist constitutional interpretation is ever anything besides a buzzword for an "ideology uber alles" mindset.
I dunno, I think the pic of Ady Hershcovitch was really informative. For one thing, I know that he wears a watch. I always wanted to know that.
You're welcome.
But I REALLY LIKE Kabuki.
This was on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me last week. NPR got something wrong, now all my illusions are shattered. Next thing you know, it'll turn out that Click and Clack don't know exactly what's wrong with my car.
Personally, I'm holding out for a mod that lets me turn my Barton XP into a Barton GP, because I really want to buy that next armor class.
Just because it's sadistic doesn't mean it's stupid, and just because you were FOOLED doesn't mean the person who FOOLED you on April FOOLS is a shithead.
otherwise they'd have commited suicide. If you're really so cynical, why don't you?
*shrug*
I heard that death sucks?
Which is part of why it IS a good prank. While it didn't fool me (I'm too cynical to believe anything that nice would happen, if they did this, next thing you know pigs fly and Lucasarts goes back to making great adventure games), if a prank like this gets you to believe it, and then lets you down, it's done it's job.
So can we say that "if the RIAA doesn't watch it, they'll find a lot of young people getting pictures of office holders with dead hookers and changing laws."?
Actually, some members of our government were agents of the Taliban (in the sense that they supported them) when they were trying to STOP drugs. Remember all that money we gave them about year and a half ago?
Hey, is that a beta?
His handle is "Sai".
Yes, they are PA citizens, but are under the rule of Israel. To say that they are all citizens, and could enjoy the same rights is like saying that the american colonists were citizens, just like those in GB, and could enjoy the same rights. PA citizenship is not the same as citizenship of soverign nation, they are in Israel, and Israeli policies, arrived at by non-democratic exclusion of the PA citizens, deprives them of rights. America got founded on the idea that everyone should have the illusion of self-determination, a third of the population of Israel doesn't even have that.