I thought the mp3 player fee was only applied if you, the maker of the mp3 player, charged for the player itself. As I understood it, as long as the player was free, there was no royalty...?
This survey would have yielded almost exactly the same results if taken during the Clinton years, which seems to be the preferred Slashdot benchmark for awesomeness.
It wasn't until the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, made during an era of populist progressivism in 1913, that the Senate became filled by direct election.
Although, Looking it up, it was actualy the 17th ammendment, not the 16th:
Amendment XVII
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, that the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
What most people - even Americans - don't know is that in fact the Senate was not originally elected at all. It was filled with the appointees of states legislatures (two from each state), who could fill the appointments however they best saw fit. It wasn't until the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, made during an era of populist progressivism in 1913, that the Senate became filled by direct election.
That has mad me curious from time to time, if the federal government was not supposed to have so much power, then why the hell does it have so much power!?
Of course, I'm sure it was that along with 100 other little things, but thats a pretty significant one.
I have probably half a terabyte of hard drive space total and I fill it up and have to delete some things every now and then.
But a good friend of mine is a pro photographer. He shoots 10 GB worth of photos in a day easily. 20 GB some days. Plus he touches up a lot of the shots and saves the.psd files, the origional.jpg's and the final.jpg's. He just finished building a system with ten 300 GB sata drives all in RAID 1 for easy recovery from a failure. This sits beside his system with more than a terabyte of nearly full drives as well as stacks of burned dvd's. And I have no doubt that he'll have it full and be looking to buy more drives on down the road.
I've noticed that with netvibes too. None of the images appear untill I actualy visit the blog. There may be something the feed reader can do to get around it, but it is deffinately bloggers fault. Every other feed with images shows up just fine in netvibes, and after my blogger images are cached from directly visiting the site, they show up as well.
Netvibes proxys the feeds through netvibes.com, but pulls the images directly from blogger. I'll bet a feed reader that directly grabs the feed from blogger gets on the ok list.
that's actualy pretty cool.. I have heard of keyloggers that occasionaly took screenshots, but if you type it in reletively fast, theres a decent chance the screenshot would miss it.
My biggest complaint was the power source. The battery container was fairly solid, but it was batteries, and therfore wouldn't last forever. But the ac adapter was not so solid. It attached to the back of the controler, and when I was getting into a game a lot I'd shake the controler around a bit and then the system would just reset because it lost power. That drove me crazy.
I dont recal getting a headache more than once while playing it, I think some of the people who complained of headaches ignored the break points that came fairly regularly and just continued playing for hours on end.
I have a friend who got kicked out of his parents house for throwing a party a few months ago. (It was a good party)
So he was living out of his car for a little while there, and being an internet junky, found his way to the library for his daily surfing. At times all of the library computers were taken, and it usualy involved at least half of them with kids on myspace.
After that happened a couple of times my friend learned how to edit a windows HOSTS file, and well, there has always been plenty of free computers at the library ever since.
I think he got runescape while he was at it too =D
See, the dutch are switching because they're frugal.
I, OTOH, do it because it's easy to get. I own a few coppies of office, but finding the cd's in my closet would probably take longer than downloading the 200megs or whatever OO.o is.
OO.o has worked just fine for all of my school needs and I don't intend to buy any more coppies of office.
not quite an accessory, but I got my ipod through colorware with a custon black paint job. This was back before you could buy black ipods, but still mine's less of a piano black, instead its a metalic black.
I keep mine in a case that only exposes the controls, and there is one scratch on the controls, but it's hard to notice. similarly, it does pick up some fingerprints but theyr harder to notice than those on apples black ipods.
Even with the extra paint, touch controls work perfectly.
And besides the cool paint job, there customer service is great. they fixed my ipod when the firmware locked up so bad I couldn't rebood it (I thought it was dead, but they got it working that time) and they replaced it when the hard drive died 6-7 months after purchase. both times they did it without hasseling me at all.
and yes, I did notice the repeated half full. about a second after I clicked submit. and I previewed it 3 times without noticing that (I made other changes though)
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sheesh. I'm the lead developer AND the administrator. If our internet goes down I quit writing code and start fixing the net.
/I was just the lead dev. then our admin got a better job offer somewhere else, so now im both.. I think its about time to ask for a raise.
what did System Of A Down ever do to the brits?
/duck!
seems fixed now...
That's the first time I've seen any trouble with open dns.
is anybody else who uses OpenDNS having trouble visiting http://www.businessweek.com/?
I thought the mp3 player fee was only applied if you, the maker of the mp3 player, charged for the player itself. As I understood it, as long as the player was free, there was no royalty. ..?
Probably true...
I guess I won't be a monkey's uncle after all..
This survey would have yielded almost exactly the same results if taken during the Clinton years, which seems to be the preferred Slashdot benchmark for awesomeness.
That's so true!
It wasn't until the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, made during an era of populist progressivism in 1913, that the Senate became filled by direct election.
Although, Looking it up, it was actualy the 17th ammendment, not the 16th:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_AmendmenStill, giving credit where credit's due, I would of never realized that had you not pointed it out.
What most people - even Americans - don't know is that in fact the Senate was not originally elected at all. It was filled with the appointees of states legislatures (two from each state), who could fill the appointments however they best saw fit. It wasn't until the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, made during an era of populist progressivism in 1913, that the Senate became filled by direct election.
That has mad me curious from time to time, if the federal government was not supposed to have so much power, then why the hell does it have so much power!?
Of course, I'm sure it was that along with 100 other little things, but thats a pretty significant one.
I have probably half a terabyte of hard drive space total and I fill it up and have to delete some things every now and then.
.psd files, the origional .jpg's and the final .jpg's.
But a good friend of mine is a pro photographer. He shoots 10 GB worth of photos in a day easily. 20 GB some days. Plus he touches up a lot of the shots and saves the
He just finished building a system with ten 300 GB sata drives all in RAID 1 for easy recovery from a failure. This sits beside his system with more than a terabyte of nearly full drives as well as stacks of burned dvd's. And I have no doubt that he'll have it full and be looking to buy more drives on down the road.
Netvibes proxys the feeds through netvibes.com, but pulls the images directly from blogger. I'll bet a feed reader that directly grabs the feed from blogger gets on the ok list.
*assuming you choose to type the password.. just clicking it in would pretymuch guarentee its safe from a screenshot / keylogger
that's actualy pretty cool.. I have heard of keyloggers that occasionaly took screenshots, but if you type it in reletively fast, theres a decent chance the screenshot would miss it.
I had one too and I liked mine.
My biggest complaint was the power source. The battery container was fairly solid, but it was batteries, and therfore wouldn't last forever.
But the ac adapter was not so solid. It attached to the back of the controler, and when I was getting into a game a lot I'd shake the controler around a bit and then the system would just reset because it lost power. That drove me crazy.
I dont recal getting a headache more than once while playing it, I think some of the people who complained of headaches ignored the break points that came fairly regularly and just continued playing for hours on end.
Oh well, it was still a fun way to waste my time.
I have a friend who got kicked out of his parents house for throwing a party a few months ago. (It was a good party)
So he was living out of his car for a little while there, and being an internet junky, found his way to the library for his daily surfing. At times all of the library computers were taken, and it usualy involved at least half of them with kids on myspace.
After that happened a couple of times my friend learned how to edit a windows HOSTS file, and well, there has always been plenty of free computers at the library ever since.
I think he got runescape while he was at it too =D
This will make some businises cautious about carying laptops with them while they travel.
[insert TrueCrypt response here]
See, the dutch are switching because they're frugal.
I, OTOH, do it because it's easy to get. I own a few coppies of office, but finding the cd's in my closet would probably take longer than downloading the 200megs or whatever OO.o is.
OO.o has worked just fine for all of my school needs and I don't intend to buy any more coppies of office.
not quite an accessory, but I got my ipod through colorware with a custon black paint job.
This was back before you could buy black ipods, but still mine's less of a piano black, instead its a metalic black.
I keep mine in a case that only exposes the controls, and there is one scratch on the controls, but it's hard to notice. similarly, it does pick up some fingerprints but theyr harder to notice than those on apples black ipods.
Even with the extra paint, touch controls work perfectly.
And besides the cool paint job, there customer service is great. they fixed my ipod when the firmware locked up so bad I couldn't rebood it (I thought it was dead, but they got it working that time) and they replaced it when the hard drive died 6-7 months after purchase. both times they did it without hasseling me at all.
http://www.colorwarepc.com/
anybody heard of meebo? it's an AJAX frontend for gaim
http://meebo.com/
> http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/xxx.html
you gotta wonder how many porn filters will block that third link...
I figured the Microsoft alternative to jpeg wasnt going very far, but this seems like the final nail in the cofin.
and yes, I did notice the repeated half full. about a second after I clicked submit. and I previewed it 3 times without noticing that (I made other changes though)