Yes, but mor pretty much has an evil connotation with it, and would have even before the Khazad-dum was carved, because of Morgoth, the Black Foe of the World.
Moria was renamed such by the Elves after the Dwarves mined too deeply and released the imprisoned, sleeping Balrog. If you really wish, I could find a source to cite. I'm just too sleepy now.:)
Nope. mor always meant 'black' and ia was pretty much always a chasm. Mor also appears in Mordor, Minas Morgul, and other such constructions.
Sometimes there are just mistakes, and this is one of those unfortunate places. Fortunately, it's also one of the places where I've never had too much trouble (after the intial disappointment of realization) just ignoring it.
I hate you tell you this, but MP3 is also a proprietary music format. The only popular open format I know of for audio is Ogg Vorbis.
Anyhow, when you go into the Tools|Options... menu on Windows Media Player 7 and higher, you set whether or not you want DRM in your ripped files or not, right alongside where you set the bitrate and other settings. It's hardly hidden. It's just activated by defaults. Some portable music players require it.
Actually, working part-time as a student, I never had enough for a savings account at my bank. So I used PayPal to save $100 every month, and then tried as best I could to pay my bills with the debit card (I'd transfer extra along with the $100) and any other unnecessary purchases. I'd just transfer the money over to PayPal and then go buy the videogame or whatever (or the other way around).
I got 1.21% interest or so (but that's 1.04% now) plus 1.5% on any purchase I made with the card. I actually have $19.00 that I made just for buying things. It was really a nice, free, easy way to seperate my money. And if I needed it, I never had any fees because there's no minimum balance. Also, only $1 for ATM withdrawals, which isn't too shabby, I think.
As far as I know, PayPal would *not* pull money from your checking account--debit card purchases are only checked against your PayPal account balance.
Anyhow, I've since opened an account at NetBank and will use that (free checking, higher interest), but PayPal was great. I'll keep using it until they crack down on the PayPal Preferred requirements (I'm not an eBayer, really).
I agree on this! I stayed with a friend in Germany for a month this summer. I had maps of the two cities I knew we'd be in on my PDA, and AutoRoute 2002 on my laptop.
Since he was in the middle of moving, he planned on taking a more scenic route from his new place to his old place where we first stayed. We managed to *really* take the scenic route, and pulled out the laptop and got back. Aside from a newly changed street in one small town, we had no difficulties finding our way--including when he missed the exchange on the Autobahn and had to quickly find the next exit.
I highly recommend Streets & Trips, which is what I regularly use for myself. I just like the ability to quickly customize my own maps and zoom and pan over an area. (Not to mention the landmarks and points of interests features!)
My last two MSI motherboard do support IDE RAID on board. I donno how reliable that is, since I never have enough money to buy two harddrives at once, but I assume it's fairly robust. Maybe not what you want to use for a huge international company.
Anyhow, you might want to look into a motherboard with RAID features. What better time for an upgrade? If not, you should be able to find something at CompUSA. I like PC Club (http://www.pcclub.com/) which is owned by the same company. But somehow the employees really know their stuff and can be found when you need them (because they're behind the counter).
But we must be careful to be fair and sane about using this argument, because otherwise it could seriously hurt us.
For instance, that x-ray example makes no sense. Copyright protects the right of the holder to control public publication and exhibition of his works. Most copyrighted works are literary in nature--and viewing a pad of paper on which the work is written/printed has nothing to do with your copyright. In fact, even if it were some sculpture you had made, display on an x-ray scanner is hardly a public performance.
So yes, in an effort to discredit the DMCA, we should look for ways it can be misused. But we should wait until we *find* some before going off and railing against it.
Well, the Danish site is here, but it's pretty bad off.
Let it load, and the link is the QuickTime-looking window graphic on the left. It pops up in a seperate window to let you choose your download size, so make sure your pop-up blockers are in check.:)
Actually, voice telecomm data is digital--it's digitized at 8kHz, I believe, rather close the to local loop for transmission across the backbone. This allows for virtual circuits and all that.
That's why it's impossible to connect at more than 53.3kps with an analog modem--any higher speeds would be rendered unintelligible by the compression.
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Nope! LiveJournal always has been and always will be completely ad-free.
There is a nice paid-users sorta thing that's... well, I'm cheap, and *I'm* a paid user. You get some nice extra features, but it really feels like you're donating, and not like they're trying to squeeze money out of you. I can see them wanting to keep AOLers who've donated happy.
But I don't really see them bending over backwards to make AOL happy. Not more than their users want, anyhow. I don't know. I just don't see it being motivated by greed. I think that's what I want to say. They'll try and do right by their users, but they won't go after AOL just because they're hoping for money.
Does that make sense? I donno. I'm biased 'cause I like LJ, but I honestly think they're all pretty decent over there.
Ah, mod points for the second time ever, and they're no use now. I'll post a reply instead, about why I think this one isn't that interesting.
The thing is that the Brüder Grimm didn't go around writing these fairy tales. They travelled around Germany collecting them. These Märchen or fairy tales were stories that had been told and retold throughout different parts of the region, and the Brothers Grimm went and gathered them all up, and published them as a collection.
Even Disney didn't copy the stories verbatim. Snow White, for instance, is mostly the same but there are quite a lot of differences between that and the story of Schneewittchen. Although this is a meaningless difference, I like how the evil Queen asked the hunter to bring back Snow White's lungs and liver so that she could have them cooked and eat them, so that she would be the most beautiful in all the country. I eat meat but not organs. Yuck.:P
Oh, yeah. A point. Err, well, I doubt that the Brothers Grimm could have claimed copyright for each story (although they certainly could for the actual collection of stories). And Disney made plenty of modifications to make it more suitable for kids. I do enjoy the grittier and gorier original published version, but Disney's Snow White is charming and magical and worthwhile all the same.
Uh, he didn't say they celebrated their *own* birthdays. How many people do you know who buy themselves a birthday card? People send cards to *others* for their birthdays. It's just a note of appreciation or friendship, whether there's an actual get-together or not.
As for failed weddings, well, maybe they can send condolence or congrats cards.;)
Actually, those antiquities aren't Iraq's. They're Babylonian and Sumerian and Hittite, and who knows what else. They are humankind's--evidence and records of the earliest great human civilizations we know to exist dating up to 7,000 years ago--and I think the fact that people are just grabbing them and breaking them to sell on the blackmarket is horrible.
I'm sure the grandparent poster would simply rather they stayed safe in the museum, preserved and available undamaged for study and research, as well as to visit and observe. I certainly would.
I've gotten three or four rebates from Microsoft, and I sent one a week late after the deadline and the other same day/day after sort of thing. I have never had any trouble with this from Microsoft.
Furthermore, when the Intellimouse I bought started going wonky, and they asked if I could take it back to Best Buy, I said, "Well, I'm not sure if I can find the receipt and it's close to the two weeks, and they throw a fit without the receipt," he interrupted me and I had to talk him *out* of sending me a free replacement.
In true form, I didn't get to Best Buy, and didn't call back for the replacement--he'd given me his name and a case number; a free mouse was mine for the taking. But the point is that Microsoft has, if nothing else, been great for rebates.
Now if only I could say the same for most other companies....
I totally agree--and I was even able to follow along the conversation a bit and gain some small insight (it would be more if I could be bothered to get up and get my pocket dictionary from the other side of the room).
I was just thinking, "Man, it's so great some stupid American didn't fsck it up and complain about the non-English thread." Then the grandparent post went and did just that. Oh well, I give him bonus points for speaking in Italian (but if he speaks Italian, he didn't recognize the non-Romance language being used?). And I agree that dual-language posts can be *nice*. I use them sometimes when I post in German, but only to spare people from my German.;)
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Yes, but mor pretty much has an evil connotation with it, and would have even before the Khazad-dum was carved, because of Morgoth, the Black Foe of the World.
Moria was renamed such by the Elves after the Dwarves mined too deeply and released the imprisoned, sleeping Balrog. If you really wish, I could find a source to cite. I'm just too sleepy now. :)
Nope. mor always meant 'black' and ia was pretty much always a chasm. Mor also appears in Mordor, Minas Morgul, and other such constructions.
Sometimes there are just mistakes, and this is one of those unfortunate places. Fortunately, it's also one of the places where I've never had too much trouble (after the intial disappointment of realization) just ignoring it.
I hate you tell you this, but MP3 is also a proprietary music format. The only popular open format I know of for audio is Ogg Vorbis.
Anyhow, when you go into the Tools|Options... menu on Windows Media Player 7 and higher, you set whether or not you want DRM in your ripped files or not, right alongside where you set the bitrate and other settings. It's hardly hidden. It's just activated by defaults. Some portable music players require it.
Actually, working part-time as a student, I never had enough for a savings account at my bank. So I used PayPal to save $100 every month, and then tried as best I could to pay my bills with the debit card (I'd transfer extra along with the $100) and any other unnecessary purchases. I'd just transfer the money over to PayPal and then go buy the videogame or whatever (or the other way around).
I got 1.21% interest or so (but that's 1.04% now) plus 1.5% on any purchase I made with the card. I actually have $19.00 that I made just for buying things. It was really a nice, free, easy way to seperate my money. And if I needed it, I never had any fees because there's no minimum balance. Also, only $1 for ATM withdrawals, which isn't too shabby, I think.
As far as I know, PayPal would *not* pull money from your checking account--debit card purchases are only checked against your PayPal account balance.
Anyhow, I've since opened an account at NetBank and will use that (free checking, higher interest), but PayPal was great. I'll keep using it until they crack down on the PayPal Preferred requirements (I'm not an eBayer, really).
I agree on this! I stayed with a friend in Germany for a month this summer. I had maps of the two cities I knew we'd be in on my PDA, and AutoRoute 2002 on my laptop.
Since he was in the middle of moving, he planned on taking a more scenic route from his new place to his old place where we first stayed. We managed to *really* take the scenic route, and pulled out the laptop and got back. Aside from a newly changed street in one small town, we had no difficulties finding our way--including when he missed the exchange on the Autobahn and had to quickly find the next exit.
I highly recommend Streets & Trips, which is what I regularly use for myself. I just like the ability to quickly customize my own maps and zoom and pan over an area. (Not to mention the landmarks and points of interests features!)
My last two MSI motherboard do support IDE RAID on board. I donno how reliable that is, since I never have enough money to buy two harddrives at once, but I assume it's fairly robust. Maybe not what you want to use for a huge international company. Anyhow, you might want to look into a motherboard with RAID features. What better time for an upgrade? If not, you should be able to find something at CompUSA. I like PC Club (http://www.pcclub.com/) which is owned by the same company. But somehow the employees really know their stuff and can be found when you need them (because they're behind the counter).
But we must be careful to be fair and sane about using this argument, because otherwise it could seriously hurt us.
For instance, that x-ray example makes no sense. Copyright protects the right of the holder to control public publication and exhibition of his works. Most copyrighted works are literary in nature--and viewing a pad of paper on which the work is written/printed has nothing to do with your copyright. In fact, even if it were some sculpture you had made, display on an x-ray scanner is hardly a public performance.
So yes, in an effort to discredit the DMCA, we should look for ways it can be misused. But we should wait until we *find* some before going off and railing against it.
Well, the Danish site is here, but it's pretty bad off.
Let it load, and the link is the QuickTime-looking window graphic on the left. It pops up in a seperate window to let you choose your download size, so make sure your pop-up blockers are in check. :)
Actually, voice telecomm data is digital--it's digitized at 8kHz, I believe, rather close the to local loop for transmission across the backbone. This allows for virtual circuits and all that.
That's why it's impossible to connect at more than 53.3kps with an analog modem--any higher speeds would be rendered unintelligible by the compression.
Or in some dimensions, 1963. :P
Of course it doesn't--but LiveJournal is happily Open Source. :)
Nope! LiveJournal always has been and always will be completely ad-free.
There is a nice paid-users sorta thing that's... well, I'm cheap, and *I'm* a paid user. You get some nice extra features, but it really feels like you're donating, and not like they're trying to squeeze money out of you. I can see them wanting to keep AOLers who've donated happy.
But I don't really see them bending over backwards to make AOL happy. Not more than their users want, anyhow. I don't know. I just don't see it being motivated by greed. I think that's what I want to say. They'll try and do right by their users, but they won't go after AOL just because they're hoping for money.
Does that make sense? I donno. I'm biased 'cause I like LJ, but I honestly think they're all pretty decent over there.
Ah, mod points for the second time ever, and they're no use now. I'll post a reply instead, about why I think this one isn't that interesting.
:P
The thing is that the Brüder Grimm didn't go around writing these fairy tales. They travelled around Germany collecting them. These Märchen or fairy tales were stories that had been told and retold throughout different parts of the region, and the Brothers Grimm went and gathered them all up, and published them as a collection.
Even Disney didn't copy the stories verbatim. Snow White, for instance, is mostly the same but there are quite a lot of differences between that and the story of Schneewittchen. Although this is a meaningless difference, I like how the evil Queen asked the hunter to bring back Snow White's lungs and liver so that she could have them cooked and eat them, so that she would be the most beautiful in all the country. I eat meat but not organs. Yuck.
Oh, yeah. A point. Err, well, I doubt that the Brothers Grimm could have claimed copyright for each story (although they certainly could for the actual collection of stories). And Disney made plenty of modifications to make it more suitable for kids. I do enjoy the grittier and gorier original published version, but Disney's Snow White is charming and magical and worthwhile all the same.
Phobos and Deimos are moons. They orbit Mars. ;)
Yeah, how about:
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Seriously, if you're hoping to put it on your gravestone, you might want to learn Latin yourself. Don't ask people like me, leastwise!
"fsck" usually isn't a typo!
Captain: Launch all legal team for great justice!!
"natural beef flavoring." Some sort of extract.
If only I were using Fast TCP, this could have been first post!
Uh, that's "Pointy-Haired Boss".
Uh, he didn't say they celebrated their *own* birthdays. How many people do you know who buy themselves a birthday card? People send cards to *others* for their birthdays. It's just a note of appreciation or friendship, whether there's an actual get-together or not.
;)
As for failed weddings, well, maybe they can send condolence or congrats cards.
Actually, those antiquities aren't Iraq's. They're Babylonian and Sumerian and Hittite, and who knows what else. They are humankind's--evidence and records of the earliest great human civilizations we know to exist dating up to 7,000 years ago--and I think the fact that people are just grabbing them and breaking them to sell on the blackmarket is horrible.
I'm sure the grandparent poster would simply rather they stayed safe in the museum, preserved and available undamaged for study and research, as well as to visit and observe. I certainly would.
Okay, so this comic came out 19 years ago, in 1984?
*Now* I understand why I keep hearing people complain about Slashdot being slow to post news stories!
I've gotten three or four rebates from Microsoft, and I sent one a week late after the deadline and the other same day/day after sort of thing. I have never had any trouble with this from Microsoft.
Furthermore, when the Intellimouse I bought started going wonky, and they asked if I could take it back to Best Buy, I said, "Well, I'm not sure if I can find the receipt and it's close to the two weeks, and they throw a fit without the receipt," he interrupted me and I had to talk him *out* of sending me a free replacement.
In true form, I didn't get to Best Buy, and didn't call back for the replacement--he'd given me his name and a case number; a free mouse was mine for the taking. But the point is that Microsoft has, if nothing else, been great for rebates.
Now if only I could say the same for most other companies....
I totally agree--and I was even able to follow along the conversation a bit and gain some small insight (it would be more if I could be bothered to get up and get my pocket dictionary from the other side of the room).
;)
I was just thinking, "Man, it's so great some stupid American didn't fsck it up and complain about the non-English thread." Then the grandparent post went and did just that. Oh well, I give him bonus points for speaking in Italian (but if he speaks Italian, he didn't recognize the non-Romance language being used?). And I agree that dual-language posts can be *nice*. I use them sometimes when I post in German, but only to spare people from my German.