The real problem here is that from what I've seen, deviant sexual tendencies are more common in people who were raised in a more puritanical manner. The guys I know who have a lot of sexual experience and were exposed to that sort of thing early are fairly normal, whereas the guys I know that were kept away from that sort of thing have some really f-ed up tastes.
You can learn a lot about people by finding their pron collection.
Yeah, but if you're doing 250+, who cares? Cop doesn't have time to read your license plate, and is never gona catch up with you. All he'll know is that come guy in a Beetle just flew past him.
For that matter, this can be achieved at speeds much lower than that, as long as you're going considerably faster than the cop. I've passed a cop while doing 100. He was just turning onto the highway. He hit his lights for a second, but by the time he even got to highway speeds, I was about a mile ahead, so he turned them back off and continued on his way.
I was doing research in which the number of plants was entirely irrelevant, and thus neither looked for that information nor retained it if I did see it. I was doing far more technical research, and in fact, was not using google. I was using an energy database. I'm also sorry you seem to be so offended by me believing you. I apologize.
MiGs were deathtraps. They put guns and a jet engine on something that was about as stable as if it'd been taped together. Yeah, they were fast... If you put a rocket engine on a cardboard box, it'd haul ass. That's basically what they did. No ejection system, no failsafes. In typical Soviet style, the pilot was unimportant, all that mattered was that it could fly and had guns. They messed up all the time, but they scared the shit out of the US, cause they were so fast. Till we got our hands on one and realized how ineffective it would really be in battle.
Are there that many? hmm. I've done research on usage of nuclear power, but never really looked into the number in use. I needed the information for something I was working on (I work at an energy consultant company). Thanks for the info.
But the pipeline would stop animals from being able to walk to the other side, and destroy their natural roaming patterns! Plus, we could SEE the pipeline.
People will complain about anything, I promise.
Also, the pipeline idea's not bad, but not particularly economical. Long pipelines are expensive and break a lot, and for the amount of power generated, wouldn't work out very well. Windmills are cheaper and easier to maintain.
Really, what we need to do is build nuclear powerplants, but people get all freaked out because "OH NOES! NUCULAR!" Just because the Soviets couldn't build a proper power plant (the last set of Soviet MIGs were made of ALUMINUM and PLYWOOD, what do you expect?!) doesn't mean it's a bad idea. Three Mile Island was perfectly contained and is still in operation, despite almost every failsafe going wrong at once. If you build the plant properly, they work great. There's something like 20 in operation currently around the world (mostly in Europe) and they work great.
All I was doing was pointing out that there are other formats out there that are important and wanted. It somehow turned into a personal attack on me (stuff like "well no one cares what you think because you're an audiophile" and the long post about how stupid audiophiles are.
My comment was just a passing bit of information I felt I should add in. I didn't expect anyone to care and certainly not to bother to respond. I was just putting my 2 cents in. I shall refrain from that in the future, because everything on slashdot turns into an argument ad hominem.
And as to who slashdot pisses off, read though some comments and see how many of them are people getting angry about some thing or another.
Apple's high quality encoder helps, yeah. And I wasn't saying that LAME was nonstandard so much as not the standard. For some unknown reason, lots of cd ripping programs use lower quality encoders. I can't listen to most of my friends' music collection because it's either so lossy or has compressed the highs and lows (LAME has more range issues than m4a, though it's way better than most mp3 encoders). By the same token, listening to the radio is almost physically painful to me. Viva la HD Radio!
I was comparing standard mp3 formats to m4a, not LAME, because most of the people I know don't use LAME. Why? I have no clue. So I don't see my assesment of mp3 sucking being untrue in that case. Sorry I didn't clarify though.
I have a 25+ GB (almost exclusively m4a) music collection and an iPod, so m4a is perfect for what I need. I again apologize for being hyperbolic in my first post, but I was mostly trying to make the point that just mp3 compatibility was not acceptable for some of us, as the parent of my first post was suggesting.
So, what you're saying is that I should settle for mp3 because it's "just as good?" By your own admission, if I go with m4a, it's smaller at the same quality. Sounds like a pretty good reason to use m4a to me. And why am I getting ripped on because I prefer my audio to sound nice? I'm not one of those guys who drops huge sums of money to make everything perfect. I couldn't afford it anyways. But I do the little things that can make a big difference. Like ripping cds to m4a instead of standard mp3.
For some reason my comment that mp3 isn't necessarily the format we all want to use started a flame war. The proliferation of idiots around here and stupid shit like this is why slashdot pisses people off (though it's still exponentially better than Digg).
Have you een reading any of this thread of comments? My original post was in response to a guy saying he didn't use anything that was DRMed because of a rights issue. Pay attention.
Just because the DRM has been broken doesn't change anything. The whole issue here was the rights issue inherent in companies' use of DRM. ANY DRM is eventually going to be broken if sufficiently talented people put their minds to it. No protection scheme is unbreakable. The original argument is that companies are screwing their customers by trying to stop them from playing the DVDs/music/whatever on an unauthorized (ie- linux)platform.
Yes they do have a DRM. Have you ever tried to make a backup copy of a DVD? There's a reason it took a while to get Linux working with DVDs. It's also why playing a DVD takes so much cpu usage (ever noticed how fast it drops laptop batteries?), because it's encrypted. It's not just the compression, it's also a lot to do with the DRM.
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Very similar to the first, the more letters the better.
Also, you should be doing your research with video cards ANYWAYS.
Good rule of thumb: the higher the number, the better.
It's pretty easy.
"Q:Why couldn't Helen Keller drive?
A:Because she was a woman."
Q: Why can't Ray Charles drive?
A: Because he's blind. Racist.
Yeah.. go and build yourself a full gaming system for $500. Let us know how that works out for ya.
The real problem here is that from what I've seen, deviant sexual tendencies are more common in people who were raised in a more puritanical manner. The guys I know who have a lot of sexual experience and were exposed to that sort of thing early are fairly normal, whereas the guys I know that were kept away from that sort of thing have some really f-ed up tastes.
You can learn a lot about people by finding their pron collection.
Happy Juice!
Best part?
Safe Search is turned on by default.
If his kids could find porn on Google, it's because they were looking for porn on Google on purpose.
Yeah, but if you're doing 250+, who cares? Cop doesn't have time to read your license plate, and is never gona catch up with you. All he'll know is that come guy in a Beetle just flew past him.
For that matter, this can be achieved at speeds much lower than that, as long as you're going considerably faster than the cop. I've passed a cop while doing 100. He was just turning onto the highway. He hit his lights for a second, but by the time he even got to highway speeds, I was about a mile ahead, so he turned them back off and continued on his way.
Does that mean we can watch in 3D now?
I was doing research in which the number of plants was entirely irrelevant, and thus neither looked for that information nor retained it if I did see it. I was doing far more technical research, and in fact, was not using google. I was using an energy database. I'm also sorry you seem to be so offended by me believing you. I apologize.
Ass.
MiGs were deathtraps. They put guns and a jet engine on something that was about as stable as if it'd been taped together. Yeah, they were fast... If you put a rocket engine on a cardboard box, it'd haul ass. That's basically what they did. No ejection system, no failsafes. In typical Soviet style, the pilot was unimportant, all that mattered was that it could fly and had guns. They messed up all the time, but they scared the shit out of the US, cause they were so fast. Till we got our hands on one and realized how ineffective it would really be in battle.
Are there that many? hmm. I've done research on usage of nuclear power, but never really looked into the number in use. I needed the information for something I was working on (I work at an energy consultant company). Thanks for the info.
It does generate quite a bit of energy, but the cost per MWH isn't as great as you'd hope.
But the pipeline would stop animals from being able to walk to the other side, and destroy their natural roaming patterns! Plus, we could SEE the pipeline.
People will complain about anything, I promise.
Also, the pipeline idea's not bad, but not particularly economical. Long pipelines are expensive and break a lot, and for the amount of power generated, wouldn't work out very well. Windmills are cheaper and easier to maintain.
Really, what we need to do is build nuclear powerplants, but people get all freaked out because "OH NOES! NUCULAR!" Just because the Soviets couldn't build a proper power plant (the last set of Soviet MIGs were made of ALUMINUM and PLYWOOD, what do you expect?!) doesn't mean it's a bad idea. Three Mile Island was perfectly contained and is still in operation, despite almost every failsafe going wrong at once. If you build the plant properly, they work great. There's something like 20 in operation currently around the world (mostly in Europe) and they work great.
"You'd never see another game port"
I thought you said they'd keep porting Photoshop?
mmmm... veal. I just love the taste of suffering.
Minesweeper.
The way it was worded definitely seemed more directed at me. Oh well.
Pop psychology is fun! =P
All I was doing was pointing out that there are other formats out there that are important and wanted. It somehow turned into a personal attack on me (stuff like "well no one cares what you think because you're an audiophile" and the long post about how stupid audiophiles are.
My comment was just a passing bit of information I felt I should add in. I didn't expect anyone to care and certainly not to bother to respond. I was just putting my 2 cents in. I shall refrain from that in the future, because everything on slashdot turns into an argument ad hominem.
And as to who slashdot pisses off, read though some comments and see how many of them are people getting angry about some thing or another.
Apple's high quality encoder helps, yeah. And I wasn't saying that LAME was nonstandard so much as not the standard. For some unknown reason, lots of cd ripping programs use lower quality encoders. I can't listen to most of my friends' music collection because it's either so lossy or has compressed the highs and lows (LAME has more range issues than m4a, though it's way better than most mp3 encoders). By the same token, listening to the radio is almost physically painful to me. Viva la HD Radio!
I was comparing standard mp3 formats to m4a, not LAME, because most of the people I know don't use LAME. Why? I have no clue. So I don't see my assesment of mp3 sucking being untrue in that case. Sorry I didn't clarify though. I have a 25+ GB (almost exclusively m4a) music collection and an iPod, so m4a is perfect for what I need. I again apologize for being hyperbolic in my first post, but I was mostly trying to make the point that just mp3 compatibility was not acceptable for some of us, as the parent of my first post was suggesting.
So, what you're saying is that I should settle for mp3 because it's "just as good?" By your own admission, if I go with m4a, it's smaller at the same quality. Sounds like a pretty good reason to use m4a to me. And why am I getting ripped on because I prefer my audio to sound nice? I'm not one of those guys who drops huge sums of money to make everything perfect. I couldn't afford it anyways. But I do the little things that can make a big difference. Like ripping cds to m4a instead of standard mp3.
For some reason my comment that mp3 isn't necessarily the format we all want to use started a flame war. The proliferation of idiots around here and stupid shit like this is why slashdot pisses people off (though it's still exponentially better than Digg).
Have you een reading any of this thread of comments? My original post was in response to a guy saying he didn't use anything that was DRMed because of a rights issue. Pay attention.
Just because the DRM has been broken doesn't change anything. The whole issue here was the rights issue inherent in companies' use of DRM. ANY DRM is eventually going to be broken if sufficiently talented people put their minds to it. No protection scheme is unbreakable. The original argument is that companies are screwing their customers by trying to stop them from playing the DVDs/music/whatever on an unauthorized (ie- linux)platform.
Yes they do have a DRM. Have you ever tried to make a backup copy of a DVD? There's a reason it took a while to get Linux working with DVDs. It's also why playing a DVD takes so much cpu usage (ever noticed how fast it drops laptop batteries?), because it's encrypted. It's not just the compression, it's also a lot to do with the DRM.