CD quality is generally 128kbps, regardless of the codec. That's what's used by just about all MP3 hardware vendors when they tell you how many songs you can put on their device, so that statement has been around for a while.
Stern's broadcasts on Sirius as received by the hardware satellite receivers isn't at talk quality (~32kbps), but at the same quality as their music channels (~128kbps).
The Internet service you get with Sirius that's standard is ~32kbps for all channels, which makes it sounds a little off. Doesn't matter to me all that much, but some people notice the difference. The new service that is being offered gives the channels at the higher quality bitrate.
For those of you that think that now Stern is just 4-hours of 4-letter words, it's not. They're in there, and the discussions get a bit more frank than before, but it's like the terrestrial broadcast without the bleeps for the most part. At one point early on, Stern yelled at someone (Ronnie?) and told him to quit swearing all the time because it wasn't funny.
Don't like Stern? That's fine. My dad hates him with a passion. A few months ago he asked me about my Sirius and a few weeks later he had his own radio in the car. He loves it. It's like cable TV - listen to what you want, there's a lot of variety. An unexpected gem is radio classics, playing radio shows from way back when. Jack Benny's humor still stands the test of time.
There are times Malkin makes Ann Coulter look to be the sane one.
Example: A few months ago Malkin went off in a that was in my Sunday paper about how the US Air Force was covering up the fact that muslim-looking people were found outside an air force base with rocket launchers, then went off from there. Unfortunately, the previous Thursday (i.e. days earlier), it was revealed that her basis for the claim never existed. No, Virginia, there were no muslim-looking people, no rocket launchers, no coverup.
For the most part, she represents what's wrong with blogging when it gets carried over to the "MSM" - they think they're journalists giving you the 'real story', but they never bother to make sure that what they're writing about actually happened. Now, you could say "b-b-b-b-but Dan Rather!", but you'd be wrong. Rather was sacked, and that was the end of it. Had Malkin been held to the same journalistic standards, she would have been fired long ago.
Pay more attention to how you got to the answer, even if it's wrong.
Years ago I went through something similar during an interview. VP of sales comes in, hands me a piece of paper, pencil, and calculator and asked me to figure out how many gas stations were in the US. Came back about 10 minutes later and we discussed how I got to my answer and how we got to his. Both of ours were reasonable, though we were probably both off the actual number. I think he just wanted to make sure I came up with something in the time instead of a random guess.
I'd rather go for a distro that doesn't have quite such an aggressive turnover in major versions, or at least makes the upgrade less of a chore (apt dist-upgrade).
I try to get her to do the Brain Age stuff, but she got an 80 due to the "blue" bug (for lack of a better term) and has since been turned off by it.
You can always say you can't speak, but my wife is hit by the blue bug as well, but I'm not. I think she'll be glad to hear that others are having the problem as well.
And she was the kind of person who never let us have a console game after the Apple II+ showed up (we had an Atari 2600 before that). Every $PRESENT_GETTING_TIME, we'd ask for a playstation, or nintendo, or something, but we were always told "No, you have a computer, it plays games, no consoles". So we went without. My wife bought me a PSX back in '96, but I haven't upgraded since.
Then a few weeks ago I got a DS Lite and my mom visited for a few days. She started playing Brain Age and that was it. When they left, my dad asked how much they were and where they could be purchased. A week later, she's busy playing Sudoku and Mario on her own DS Lite.
If you want to get one and your spouse gives you a wary eye, go get it and get Brain Age at the same time. You'll be a hero. But you may wind up arguing who gets to play with it.
Not terribly closely. Not recently anyway. I went to Catholic school for the first 8 years of my schooling, so I'd like to think I have a handle on the 'main bits'.
It's very clearly against gay sex, almost as much so as it's against lobster.
Old testament, for the most part. Jesus showed up and effectively said "you can drop those rules, now do this" (Luke 22:20). "This" (to me) didn't include the laws in Leviticus.
How many? As many as there are Christian-based religions. And there's a lot, ranging from the more liberal Episcopal churce to the more conservative Southern Baptist. Each has varying degrees to how they interpret the Bible. Some think it's the Word Of God (TM), others believe it is the word of God transcribed and interpreted by man and thus may be fallible.
These really are not open to interpretation. Again, I am just pointing out what Christian values are all about, because you made it seem that things like abortion or homosexuality are perfectly accepted and allowed within Christian values, but due to fanaticism of individuals, they are not - that is not true.
It is. Go back to my earlier statement. It goes back to "how accurate is the Bible"? In my belief, a lot of it has to be open to interpretation. The most common reference to why homosexuality is bad is Leviticus. When you get a chance, go read Leviticus and see how many rules you're breaking there. My guess is, a lot. Does this mean you're damned for all eternity? Not in my mind. Do I think people who get abortions or are gay are going to hell? No.
There's ~12M people (and increasing) that would disagree with you. The $12.95/mo I spend on my Sirius is well worth the selection of channels I can get anywhere I drive. The free streaming over the web is is nice too.
Yea Net Neutrality is something that the government shouldn't be regulating. But there's a reason the government is regulating it - the business community is unwilling to deal with the issue.
There have been a number of cases in the past where the government says "Clean up your room. If you don't clean it, we'll clean it for you and we guarantee you won't like what we do."
If Cisco and other large hardware vendors are so nervous of the government intruding on the Internet (as they should be), then they should be talking to AT&T. Once the major ISPs drop their crazy notion that they should be paid extra for something they're already doing, then the need for government intervention is eliminated.
Oh, and Marblehead is a roughly 3 sq mi town just south of Boston, on a small peninsula into the Atlantic. Marblehead is just north of Boston. BTW, some towns in MA generate their own power. I'm not sure if Marblehead is one of them. Though you could be thinking of Hull, also an upper-class community that is south of Boston. I'm sure they're really opposed to having a wind..oh..huh. Maybe not.
Try putting something like wind turbines in places where people don't currently have their house. There's a lot of places where you could locate something like this.
From what I heard, everywhere inside 495 was supposed to be online by June...
Move out of the city a little ways! All the 'burbs have it already.:)
I don't think so. Billerica certainly doesn't have FIOS. We don't have DSL either. Tho I do like the 750kB download over Comcast I'm getting right now.
It can get pretty darn expensive, that's the problem. I think the plan my wife and I are on is $.10 to send, $.02 to receive. If we call each other, it doesn't eat into our minutes, so we just call.
Now at work, I'll text co-workers every now and then if it's something quick (I'm not paying for it, and I can use the SMS app on my Palm to send and receive them). Very handy and discreet, so it's great for meetings.
If you took your entire post, replaced the word "patent" with "copyright" then you'd be correct. Patents can be selectively enforced at any time during its lifetime. See what happened with GIF as an example.
By the first exam I realized that the subject was a bit out of my league, so I gave up and had fun with the professor, writing stuff like "the 34th amendment says I don't have to answer this question", writing jokes instead of answers, and just making stuff up.
I knew this prof enough that I could get away with it (I previously showed up at an open-book exam wearing a hat with my notes stuffed in it and various notes written on my hands and arms). He graded on a severe curve and not out of 100% - a grade of 50 out of 300 could be passing. So he took it in stride. Mentioned that the 34th amendment didn't prevent him from giving me a negative score, pointed out the punchlines in my jokes were wrong and deducted points from that.
When I got the exam back, the front page read "-120/300, but don't worry, it'll come out in the curve".
As he's going through the answers, I and my friends are chuckling at the comments each of us made on the exam. Then the prof. got to the last question, a logic-based one (prove some theorem is correct). On that answer, I made up a rather lengthy logical path to prove the theory including a few references to handwaving. Turns out I was the closest to the correct answer.
Never went back to the class, but crypto is still cool.
No, I'm paying extra for HBO and Showtime. If I get standard cable, I'm already paying to get the broadcast channels (NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX/PBS) plus whatever else they throw in.
the wierd thing about this is that the democrats have a bigger, better online presence than the republicans do. george soros gave 25mil to moveon.org for example. i dont get why they would oppose this...what happens when the republicans start making a stink about all the liberal soft money flowing around these liberal activist web groups. up till now its been the dems having fun with the campaign finance laws, but what goes around always comes around...
You'd be right, except for a few things.
For one, every time you mention Soros, I'll bring up Richard Mellon Scaife. The amount of money he's given to conservative causes far exceeds what Soros has done (Wikipedia says Scaife has given $340 mil to conservative causes as of 2002).
Okay, so there's a bunch of liberal causes out there, with moveon.org being the big one? What about swift boat veterans? They were a 527. And then there's USA Next.
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CD quality is generally 128kbps, regardless of the codec. That's what's used by just about all MP3 hardware vendors when they tell you how many songs you can put on their device, so that statement has been around for a while.
Stern's broadcasts on Sirius as received by the hardware satellite receivers isn't at talk quality (~32kbps), but at the same quality as their music channels (~128kbps).
The Internet service you get with Sirius that's standard is ~32kbps for all channels, which makes it sounds a little off. Doesn't matter to me all that much, but some people notice the difference. The new service that is being offered gives the channels at the higher quality bitrate.
For those of you that think that now Stern is just 4-hours of 4-letter words, it's not. They're in there, and the discussions get a bit more frank than before, but it's like the terrestrial broadcast without the bleeps for the most part. At one point early on, Stern yelled at someone (Ronnie?) and told him to quit swearing all the time because it wasn't funny.
Don't like Stern? That's fine. My dad hates him with a passion. A few months ago he asked me about my Sirius and a few weeks later he had his own radio in the car. He loves it. It's like cable TV - listen to what you want, there's a lot of variety. An unexpected gem is radio classics, playing radio shows from way back when. Jack Benny's humor still stands the test of time.
There are times Malkin makes Ann Coulter look to be the sane one.
Example: A few months ago Malkin went off in a that was in my Sunday paper about how the US Air Force was covering up the fact that muslim-looking people were found outside an air force base with rocket launchers, then went off from there. Unfortunately, the previous Thursday (i.e. days earlier), it was revealed that her basis for the claim never existed. No, Virginia, there were no muslim-looking people, no rocket launchers, no coverup.
For the most part, she represents what's wrong with blogging when it gets carried over to the "MSM" - they think they're journalists giving you the 'real story', but they never bother to make sure that what they're writing about actually happened. Now, you could say "b-b-b-b-but Dan Rather!", but you'd be wrong. Rather was sacked, and that was the end of it. Had Malkin been held to the same journalistic standards, she would have been fired long ago.
Pay more attention to how you got to the answer, even if it's wrong.
Years ago I went through something similar during an interview. VP of sales comes in, hands me a piece of paper, pencil, and calculator and asked me to figure out how many gas stations were in the US. Came back about 10 minutes later and we discussed how I got to my answer and how we got to his. Both of ours were reasonable, though we were probably both off the actual number. I think he just wanted to make sure I came up with something in the time instead of a random guess.
Got the job, and no, it wasn't in sales.
If you have kids, you know that your ability to monitor what your kids are exposed to is only as stringent as the standards of your neighbors.
In other words, it takes a village to raise a child.
I'd rather go for a distro that doesn't have quite such an aggressive turnover in major versions, or at least makes the upgrade less of a chore (apt dist-upgrade).
You mean like this?
Given you'd pay almost $85/mo here for a fraction of that service, I'd call tossing in phone and TV service "free".
...so you drive around with your name, SSN, home address, and phone number written on your car?
I try to get her to do the Brain Age stuff, but she got an 80 due to the "blue" bug (for lack of a better term) and has since been turned off by it.
You can always say you can't speak, but my wife is hit by the blue bug as well, but I'm not. I think she'll be glad to hear that others are having the problem as well.
And she was the kind of person who never let us have a console game after the Apple II+ showed up (we had an Atari 2600 before that). Every $PRESENT_GETTING_TIME, we'd ask for a playstation, or nintendo, or something, but we were always told "No, you have a computer, it plays games, no consoles". So we went without. My wife bought me a PSX back in '96, but I haven't upgraded since.
Then a few weeks ago I got a DS Lite and my mom visited for a few days. She started playing Brain Age and that was it. When they left, my dad asked how much they were and where they could be purchased. A week later, she's busy playing Sudoku and Mario on her own DS Lite.
If you want to get one and your spouse gives you a wary eye, go get it and get Brain Age at the same time. You'll be a hero. But you may wind up arguing who gets to play with it.
have you read the Bible?
Not terribly closely. Not recently anyway. I went to Catholic school for the first 8 years of my schooling, so I'd like to think I have a handle on the 'main bits'.
It's very clearly against gay sex, almost as much so as it's against lobster.
Old testament, for the most part. Jesus showed up and effectively said "you can drop those rules, now do this" (Luke 22:20). "This" (to me) didn't include the laws in Leviticus.
How many? As many as there are Christian-based religions. And there's a lot, ranging from the more liberal Episcopal churce to the more conservative Southern Baptist. Each has varying degrees to how they interpret the Bible. Some think it's the Word Of God (TM), others believe it is the word of God transcribed and interpreted by man and thus may be fallible.
These really are not open to interpretation. Again, I am just pointing out what Christian values are all about, because you made it seem that things like abortion or homosexuality are perfectly accepted and allowed within Christian values, but due to fanaticism of individuals, they are not - that is not true.
It is. Go back to my earlier statement. It goes back to "how accurate is the Bible"? In my belief, a lot of it has to be open to interpretation. The most common reference to why homosexuality is bad is Leviticus. When you get a chance, go read Leviticus and see how many rules you're breaking there. My guess is, a lot. Does this mean you're damned for all eternity? Not in my mind. Do I think people who get abortions or are gay are going to hell? No.
For instance, he would like to ban stem cell research, abortion, and gay marriage because they conflict with his notion of Christian values.
/Christian
//supports abortion rights, stem cell research, and gay marriage
Had to be repeated.
There's ~12M people (and increasing) that would disagree with you. The $12.95/mo I spend on my Sirius is well worth the selection of channels I can get anywhere I drive. The free streaming over the web is is nice too.
So GTA:Washington, DC would be okay so long as you learn how a bill is passed while beating up hookers with a golf club?
Yea Net Neutrality is something that the government shouldn't be regulating. But there's a reason the government is regulating it - the business community is unwilling to deal with the issue.
There have been a number of cases in the past where the government says "Clean up your room. If you don't clean it, we'll clean it for you and we guarantee you won't like what we do."
If Cisco and other large hardware vendors are so nervous of the government intruding on the Internet (as they should be), then they should be talking to AT&T. Once the major ISPs drop their crazy notion that they should be paid extra for something they're already doing, then the need for government intervention is eliminated.
Oh, and Marblehead is a roughly 3 sq mi town just south of Boston, on a small peninsula into the Atlantic.
Marblehead is just north of Boston. BTW, some towns in MA generate their own power. I'm not sure if Marblehead is one of them. Though you could be thinking of Hull, also an upper-class community that is south of Boston. I'm sure they're really opposed to having a wind..oh..huh. Maybe not.
Try putting something like wind turbines in places where people don't currently have their house. There's a lot of places where you could locate something like this.
Like Nantucket Sound?.
The same is true of just about everyone else. I hear the Federal owns a ridiculous potion of the US; how about we use *that* land?
Because it's set aside for public use (mountains), private use (grazing, mining, forestry), or the wind isn't right.
From what I heard, everywhere inside 495 was supposed to be online by June...
:)
Move out of the city a little ways! All the 'burbs have it already.
I don't think so. Billerica certainly doesn't have FIOS. We don't have DSL either. Tho I do like the 750kB download over Comcast I'm getting right now.
It can get pretty darn expensive, that's the problem. I think the plan my wife and I are on is $.10 to send, $.02 to receive. If we call each other, it doesn't eat into our minutes, so we just call.
Now at work, I'll text co-workers every now and then if it's something quick (I'm not paying for it, and I can use the SMS app on my Palm to send and receive them). Very handy and discreet, so it's great for meetings.
Even now it's more about propperty then about love since the state doens't care if you love the one you marry.
So long as the person you may or may not love is the opposite gender of you, of course.
What they said. RT rocks.
If you took your entire post, replaced the word "patent" with "copyright" then you'd be correct. Patents can be selectively enforced at any time during its lifetime. See what happened with GIF as an example.
By the first exam I realized that the subject was a bit out of my league, so I gave up and had fun with the professor, writing stuff like "the 34th amendment says I don't have to answer this question", writing jokes instead of answers, and just making stuff up.
I knew this prof enough that I could get away with it (I previously showed up at an open-book exam wearing a hat with my notes stuffed in it and various notes written on my hands and arms). He graded on a severe curve and not out of 100% - a grade of 50 out of 300 could be passing. So he took it in stride. Mentioned that the 34th amendment didn't prevent him from giving me a negative score, pointed out the punchlines in my jokes were wrong and deducted points from that.
When I got the exam back, the front page read "-120/300, but don't worry, it'll come out in the curve".
As he's going through the answers, I and my friends are chuckling at the comments each of us made on the exam. Then the prof. got to the last question, a logic-based one (prove some theorem is correct). On that answer, I made up a rather lengthy logical path to prove the theory including a few references to handwaving. Turns out I was the closest to the correct answer.
Never went back to the class, but crypto is still cool.
No, I'm paying extra for HBO and Showtime. If I get standard cable, I'm already paying to get the broadcast channels (NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX/PBS) plus whatever else they throw in.
Again, why do you need to save a show and watch it 100 times over? That sounds more like a mental issue than a practical one.
Didn't watch this week's Family Guy, did you?
the wierd thing about this is that the democrats have a bigger, better online presence than the republicans do. george soros gave 25mil to moveon.org for example. i dont get why they would oppose this...what happens when the republicans start making a stink about all the liberal soft money flowing around these liberal activist web groups. up till now its been the dems having fun with the campaign finance laws, but what goes around always comes around...
You'd be right, except for a few things.
For one, every time you mention Soros, I'll bring up Richard Mellon Scaife. The amount of money he's given to conservative causes far exceeds what Soros has done (Wikipedia says Scaife has given $340 mil to conservative causes as of 2002).
Okay, so there's a bunch of liberal causes out there, with moveon.org being the big one? What about swift boat veterans? They were a 527. And then there's USA Next.