It is really a grab bag with audiophile speakers. I listend to about dozen pairs of 10,000+ speakers, and was amazied. Some of them sounded about as good as your average $200 "home theater kit", while several were unquestionably the best sound reproduction I had ever heard by a long shot. As in, "worth the money" had I had it to spend. However, by the time I could afford to spend that much, I am sure my hearing will have degraded enough that it isn't worth it.
I haven't been terribly impressed by the quality of consumer DLP systems. The quality of rear projection DLP systems is no better than that of LCD, and considerably worse than plasma (which is more expensive, so that is expected). I have looked at LCD vs. DLP front projection systems side-by-side and the LCD looked better, even though the display was meant to show the superiority of DLP systems.
Based on my earlier experiences, I would not have considered a DLP projector for home theater, though if the lifetime is that questionable, perhaps I would be willing to make the tradeoff, but only after carefully looking at the picture quality.
Theater projection systems are another matter entirely, as the DLP systems used there are a lot more sophisticated than what consumer gear uses.
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Are you sure that the problem isn't in the mastering engineers, not the CD format? Almost all pop music is dynamically compressed within an inch of its life to make it sould louder on cheap equipment. I am told that this is much less of a problem with classical music, but classical music also tends to have a much higher crest factor than pop, and is therefore more sensitive to compression as well.
The noise floor and dynamic range of a CD with a high quality DAC should be better than almost anybody's ears, if correctly mastered. DVD-Audio should be even better than CD, with multi-channel to boot, and also gives recording engineers a lot of headroom in the ultrasonic to avoid aliasing while using low order filters that are in principle somewhat gentler on the sound. SACD on the other hand is a travesty, superbly wasteful of bandwidth, while having less resolution and more noise in the highest octave of the audio range and much, much more noise in the ultrasonic, which is inaudiable, but can have negative effects on the audible spectrum because of effects in the tweeter.
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This is somewhat true(*) with hi-fi gear which is not generally run anywhere near clipping limits. In that case, both valve and transistor amplifiers operate as nearly ideal amplifiers, and sound is very similar. However, sound production gear, particularly guitar amplifiers are almost always run outside of the linear range, where the characteristics of individual amplifiers become significant. This is because if you had to listen to the flat lifeless sound of your average electric guitar without the harmonics added by an amplifier, you would go nuts (no comments about going nuts either way are necessary here).
I have measured output of some tube amplifiers, and you can easily hear the difference in a simple sine wave signal, which show up easily by looking at the waveforms or power spectra.
Also, when distorting, there is far more than the "even/odd harmonics" theory affecting the relative sounds of different amplifiers.
(*) There are still real differences. Valve amplifiers typically have output impedances of a couple ohms, while transistor amplifiers usually have nearly 0 output impedance. This makes a big difference in damping, which contributes to what audiophiles people call "warm" vs. "tight" in a way that depends heavily on the speaker driver and enclosure. Valves also have inherently higher THD figures than transistors (commonly.2% vs.001%), and several "old school" valve amplifiers run without negative feedback in which case they are never even approximately linear, and do not behave as an ideal amplifier at all.
If the musicians like it that way, they should record it that way. Sound reproduction equipment should do just that -- reproduce as accurately as possible the sound on the CD (or other source)
If people deliberately want to alter the sound, that should be done by effect processing that can be turned off, but not built in by inherent limitations in the reproduction equipment.
Now, if you are interested in sound production, that is another matter entirely. The sound of a (say) guitar amplifier is as much a part of the musician's instrument as the guitar, though it would still be nice if a lot of that load could be taken off of unreliable power amplifiers and placed on reproducable, removable low level effects processing.
Well, we will just have to get externally mounted copper heatsinks with a thermostat controlled fan. Just watch what happens when we mix the insanity of fashion with the insanity of overclocking/cooling fetishists.
Glad to see someone who thinks rationally about these issues, though I have to say I don't think there is anything wrong with genetic manipulation or cloning either, except that as you say we don't know enough about them yet to do so in a safe manner taking into accound the important ethical issues they raise.
But I see the process of fertilization as only important in a rather clinical/genetic sense. The fusion of an egg and sperm does produce something genetically distinct from the predecesors, but every cell in my body contains DNA that no other human posesses, yet I only ascribe the term "human life" to some ill defined collective that survives many birth and death cycles of my individual cells. Therefore, I don't look back on my zygote as me, but as a group of cells that happened to share the same DNA as me, which provided the raw materials from which "I" emerged.
I like to think I am pretty cool, and in that respect am glad that I was born and not aborted, but I don't think I would "object" if I had. I just think I would never have existed, much like I never would have existed if I were not concieved. I would have "never ahd the change to even live" in either case, but so do a literally uncountable number of potential babies that were never conceived, none of which I feel particularly sorry for.
My great uncle has said (mostly jokinly, of course) that life doesn't begin with either conception or birth, but only when the parents start refering to their child by its name, rather than "the baby." He says that is the point where they recognize "the baby" as not just a creature to be cared for, but as a person with its own unique personality.
Well, am not moderating, but if I were, I might have moderated your post as "-1 unintelligible" I still have no idea what exactly you mean, or what you are opposed to or not. I realize clarity is not necessarily a virtue on/. but I think people ought to try.
Anti-stem cell propoganda point #1 "stem cells come from aborted baby." This is just plain wrong. By the time you know you are pregnent, it is really too late to use the fetus for stem cells. Most (all?) research stem cells have come from fertility clinics where several harvested eggs are fertalized in vitro, then the most viable is re-implanted into the woman and comes to turn, while the others would be incinerated.
Now, you are free to say that is wrong, or even call it abortion, but firstly it is much different than a "traditional" abortion where the embryo is destroyed and/or removed from a woman's uterus, and secondly, I don't see anyone trying to ban fertility clinics.
My personal feeling is that the primary instigators of the anti-stem cell movement are actually against stem cell research because they view it as playing God and meddling in affairs we have no right to. I respect that opinion, but to disguise it as protecting the lives of "innocent children" is duplicitous.
Also, stem cell research has only been going on in a real fashion for a couple of years now, and it is one of the most promising leads in medicine and science, both for it potential to repair people and to understand how life works -- two of the most important things we do as humans. It has shown incredibal potential in laboratory animals, and the fact is it takes time to develop treatments for humans precicely because of the ethical questions in human testing, and the care researchers take to insure they are not placing their test subjects in undue risk. To write it off because it hasn't saved anybody's life yet is short sighted and naive.
Incedentally, and totally off topic, I actually think life begins well before conception, and that every cell in every creature is alive, and a beautiful mystery of the universe, including gammetes. However, this doesn't stop me from eating meat or vegtables, killing incects, taking antibiotics, using birth control, or supporting the rights of women to have abortions. The question is, when does human life begin, and the only things I am pretty sure of are that it isn't before conception or after birth. I suspect it is not particuarly close to either one of those extremes, though.
Death is a natural part of life (the last part...), and even killing: we kill plants and animals to eat and stay alive, we kill animals and bacteria that try to kill us, we step on countless incects without realizing it, untold numbers of animals die as roadkill because they don't know better and we don't think it is important enough not to build highways, and we kill each other for a variety of reasons. While I am all about keeping killing to a minimum, at the end of the day the only thing I really care about is that the human species doesn't die, and to that end I also think that we should try to stop killing born people before we worry to much about the unborn, or the non-human/non-sentient.
That is true, though probably Hank Barry can be sued for any illegal actions he is found to have taken as CEO. Other than that, I can think of no reason why an investment firm should be held liable for copyright infringment done by clients of the firm they invest in.
The important criteria is not bandwidth, but latency. A large RAID 10 system offers high bandwidth for A/V streaming applciations, but not low latency, which is an important component of program load times and OS boot time, which is a major part of user-percieved sluggishness. Better OS caching algorithms can help a lot, but SSDs almost completely cures the problem.
There is such a thing as a popular vote. It is just as well established that more Americans voted for Al Gore than George Bush (by a statistically, if not practically significant amount) It turns out that isn't how we elect the president. In fact, we by giving every state 2 + pop/1e6 votes, we aren't even trying to approximate a federal popular vote. Bush clearly won the election legitimately, but I still think the situation highlights one reason we need to change the say we elect officials.
I personally think we should replace the president with a nation wide popular vote with instant runoff/preferential voting, eliminate the senate, and replace it with nationally elected representative chosen by party affiliation. So, the Republicans would make a list of 100 people to run for Senate, and if 45% of americans voted to have the GOP represent them in the senate, the top 45 on the list would go to the Senate.
Right, but the capacity of the human brain is finite, while the capacity of hard drives is ever increasing. It is better to just save everything than worry about what to delete and what to save, and every rising hard drive capacities make that feasible. With a little (hopefully automated) organization, there is no reason the 80 GB you never listen to should get in the way of the 20 you do, and who knows -- someday you might want some of those.
Also, I have a friend who is really into live recording and the like. He has something like 320 GB of MP3s, including many that he has made himself, and stores for archival purposes, even if he doesn't listen to them himself.
Because it is there is the best possible reason for it, and one of the main reasons that the DMCA should be struck down. It doesn't matter whether any of the reasons I want to mod an X-box make sense to you, or to a judge, or can be justified financially. I bought it, and if I want to play with it, I should be able to. If I use it to pirate video games, charge me with that. If not, don't try to nail me with some phony circumvention nonsense.
Unfortunatly, it seems that "depriving a company of revenue" is now the equivlent of theft. If I find a use for and X-Box that doesn't require me to buy enough games for MS to make up the loss they chose to take on the box, or if I want to develop software for the x-box without licensing MS's development system and other software, or really do anything else that makes it hard for MS to make money, that has now become a crime. And it isn't just MS--our entire mentality seems to be shifting that corporations deserve to make money off of their products, and anyone who interferes with that must be doing something wrong, even if it is just making their product irrelevant.
Capitalism will be the death of the free market economy. (stolen from someone, I don't know who)
That said, I think there are a number of good (or good enough) reasons to use a hacked x-box. 1) as a media player in an attractive box with high quality A/V outputs and general purpose programability for future upgrades. 2) to develop your own x-box games or set-top applications without MS licenseing fees. 3) to run emulations of classic console or PC games on a large screen TV with a (relatively) nice controller. 4) To access simple general purpose computing from your living room.
All of these problems have other solutions, but none as cheap, convenient, and nice as a hacked X-box. And, if you also want to play games, they are essentially free, except for a bit of work, which might be valued higher than the X-box itself, but some people actually enjoy it.
I have actually considered using an X-box as sort of a low-power (as in watts) network server to do things like spool mail and do DHCP -- that way my "real" server could just boot up occasionally and grab mail and so forth. It would be nice to save some money on power (and A/C in the summer). Again, if there were a good low power complete computer system for a couple of hundred bucks with anywhere near the specs on an X-box, I would consider that as well, but there isn't (that I know of).
I actually just wanted to know, since I hadn't used it in a while. I had also been rather disappointed since I had used Development Studio 7.0 (ie. for DOS) and found it reasonably nice, then used several versions of VS that were crap before giving up. I used VS 6 briefly, but not enough to make an impression.
Have the improved it a lot? I haven't used VS in a while (version 4 maybe?), but at that point it was perhaps the most buggy piece of MS software ever, though early versions of IE gave it a run for its money.
The trick is to nip this thing in the bud and decide that your birthday is (say) April 4 or November 2. Make sure you choose a day a few days after so when your friends take you out drinking on your 21st birthday you can get into the bar (assuming you don't want to forge a birth certificate).
Hemp will grow in just about any soil with almost no maintenence. I have looked up the estimated net energy value for a bunch of biomass fuels, and From what I remember (can't find the link right now) hemp is not the best, but it is much better than 1 (ie, you get out as much energy as you put in) and closer to 10 (you get 10 times as much energy out as you put in). Other plants can be as high as 20, while corn runs somewhere right around 1. Yet, thanks to consistent lobbying, corn and ethanol get all the attention.
My point is that it can be made to work seamlessly with mozilla on linux, and claims to do so under windows. How many hoops you have to go through to get that set up is obviously dependent on what package you installed the software from, but it can be done, and at worst should be no more complicated than adding a line to/etc/mailcap or adding a handler in mozilla's prefs.
That is what I want one for. Unfortunately, I don't really want to risk destroying my PS2 for a handful of games, and none of the solderless ones seem to work for imports (unless you crack the region coding and burn a copy).
I think that is actually what they are doing--saying 1 kg is N atoms of silicon. They are picking silicon since it is the closest material we can come to creating an object with precicely 10^23 atoms.
That difficulty is the only reason the kg hasn't been redefined already--a standard definition isn't very useful if you can't actually implement it.
Tbe point here is not to replace the definition of the kilogram as "the mass if this block of metal" with "the mass of this sphere of silicon" but to change the definition to "the mass of N atoms of Silicon". That constitues a mathematica definition, so anybody with the appropriate tools could construct a "reference kilogram" and you don't have to worry about it changing over time or being destroyed. Right now we have an essentially irreplacable block of platinum-irridum sitting in Paris.
If they do this, then we might be able to move that particular anachronism out of its climate controlled storage chamber and put it where it belongs, which is in a museum of scientific history.
Actually, the pound is derived from the kilogram, as all English measument units are defined (by NIST) in terms of metric quantities, and have been for some time, now. So, the official defenition of an inch is 2.54 cm, and so forth.
He opted in to receive promotional material from Audiogalaxy's partners. He later opted out, but still received promotional material from Audiogalaxy's partners. That is exactly how it can violate a law. Yes, I do expect them to call up everyone they sold his email address to and say "stop using it" If they are going to sell email addresses of their customers, they need to provide a way to do that, or they are being irresponsible.
However, I think there should be some room for a resonable time to process that claim, but I would say that if they can't have the email address expunged from their records and all of their "associates" (and all they way down the food chain, if they allow the list to be resold) within 2 weeks, that is unreasonable.
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It is really a grab bag with audiophile speakers. I listend to about dozen pairs of 10,000+ speakers, and was amazied. Some of them sounded about as good as your average $200 "home theater kit", while several were unquestionably the best sound reproduction I had ever heard by a long shot. As in, "worth the money" had I had it to spend. However, by the time I could afford to spend that much, I am sure my hearing will have degraded enough that it isn't worth it.
I haven't been terribly impressed by the quality of consumer DLP systems. The quality of rear projection DLP systems is no better than that of LCD, and considerably worse than plasma (which is more expensive, so that is expected). I have looked at LCD vs. DLP front projection systems side-by-side and the LCD looked better, even though the display was meant to show the superiority of DLP systems.
Based on my earlier experiences, I would not have considered a DLP projector for home theater, though if the lifetime is that questionable, perhaps I would be willing to make the tradeoff, but only after carefully looking at the picture quality.
Theater projection systems are another matter entirely, as the DLP systems used there are a lot more sophisticated than what consumer gear uses.
Are you sure that the problem isn't in the mastering engineers, not the CD format? Almost all pop music is dynamically compressed within an inch of its life to make it sould louder on cheap equipment. I am told that this is much less of a problem with classical music, but classical music also tends to have a much higher crest factor than pop, and is therefore more sensitive to compression as well.
The noise floor and dynamic range of a CD with a high quality DAC should be better than almost anybody's ears, if correctly mastered. DVD-Audio should be even better than CD, with multi-channel to boot, and also gives recording engineers a lot of headroom in the ultrasonic to avoid aliasing while using low order filters that are in principle somewhat gentler on the sound. SACD on the other hand is a travesty, superbly wasteful of bandwidth, while having less resolution and more noise in the highest octave of the audio range and much, much more noise in the ultrasonic, which is inaudiable, but can have negative effects on the audible spectrum because of effects in the tweeter.
This is somewhat true(*) with hi-fi gear which is not generally run anywhere near clipping limits. In that case, both valve and transistor amplifiers operate as nearly ideal amplifiers, and sound is very similar. However, sound production gear, particularly guitar amplifiers are almost always run outside of the linear range, where the characteristics of individual amplifiers become significant. This is because if you had to listen to the flat lifeless sound of your average electric guitar without the harmonics added by an amplifier, you would go nuts (no comments about going nuts either way are necessary here).
.2% vs .001%), and several "old school" valve amplifiers run without negative feedback in which case they are never even approximately linear, and do not behave as an ideal amplifier at all.
I have measured output of some tube amplifiers, and you can easily hear the difference in a simple sine wave signal, which show up easily by looking at the waveforms or power spectra.
Also, when distorting, there is far more than the "even/odd harmonics" theory affecting the relative sounds of different amplifiers.
(*) There are still real differences. Valve amplifiers typically have output impedances of a couple ohms, while transistor amplifiers usually have nearly 0 output impedance. This makes a big difference in damping, which contributes to what audiophiles people call "warm" vs. "tight" in a way that depends heavily on the speaker driver and enclosure. Valves also have inherently higher THD figures than transistors (commonly
If the musicians like it that way, they should record it that way. Sound reproduction equipment should do just that -- reproduce as accurately as possible the sound on the CD (or other source)
If people deliberately want to alter the sound, that should be done by effect processing that can be turned off, but not built in by inherent limitations in the reproduction equipment.
Now, if you are interested in sound production, that is another matter entirely. The sound of a (say) guitar amplifier is as much a part of the musician's instrument as the guitar, though it would still be nice if a lot of that load could be taken off of unreliable power amplifiers and placed on reproducable, removable low level effects processing.
Well, we will just have to get externally mounted copper heatsinks with a thermostat controlled fan. Just watch what happens when we mix the insanity of fashion with the insanity of overclocking/cooling fetishists.
Glad to see someone who thinks rationally about these issues, though I have to say I don't think there is anything wrong with genetic manipulation or cloning either, except that as you say we don't know enough about them yet to do so in a safe manner taking into accound the important ethical issues they raise.
But I see the process of fertilization as only important in a rather clinical/genetic sense. The fusion of an egg and sperm does produce something genetically distinct from the predecesors, but every cell in my body contains DNA that no other human posesses, yet I only ascribe the term "human life" to some ill defined collective that survives many birth and death cycles of my individual cells. Therefore, I don't look back on my zygote as me, but as a group of cells that happened to share the same DNA as me, which provided the raw materials from which "I" emerged.
I like to think I am pretty cool, and in that respect am glad that I was born and not aborted, but I don't think I would "object" if I had. I just think I would never have existed, much like I never would have existed if I were not concieved. I would have "never ahd the change to even live" in either case, but so do a literally uncountable number of potential babies that were never conceived, none of which I feel particularly sorry for.
My great uncle has said (mostly jokinly, of course) that life doesn't begin with either conception or birth, but only when the parents start refering to their child by its name, rather than "the baby." He says that is the point where they recognize "the baby" as not just a creature to be cared for, but as a person with its own unique personality.
Well, am not moderating, but if I were, I might have moderated your post as "-1 unintelligible" I still have no idea what exactly you mean, or what you are opposed to or not. I realize clarity is not necessarily a virtue on /. but I think people ought to try.
Anti-stem cell propoganda point #1 "stem cells come from aborted baby." This is just plain wrong. By the time you know you are pregnent, it is really too late to use the fetus for stem cells. Most (all?) research stem cells have come from fertility clinics where several harvested eggs are fertalized in vitro, then the most viable is re-implanted into the woman and comes to turn, while the others would be incinerated.
Now, you are free to say that is wrong, or even call it abortion, but firstly it is much different than a "traditional" abortion where the embryo is destroyed and/or removed from a woman's uterus, and secondly, I don't see anyone trying to ban fertility clinics.
My personal feeling is that the primary instigators of the anti-stem cell movement are actually against stem cell research because they view it as playing God and meddling in affairs we have no right to. I respect that opinion, but to disguise it as protecting the lives of "innocent children" is duplicitous.
Also, stem cell research has only been going on in a real fashion for a couple of years now, and it is one of the most promising leads in medicine and science, both for it potential to repair people and to understand how life works -- two of the most important things we do as humans. It has shown incredibal potential in laboratory animals, and the fact is it takes time to develop treatments for humans precicely because of the ethical questions in human testing, and the care researchers take to insure they are not placing their test subjects in undue risk. To write it off because it hasn't saved anybody's life yet is short sighted and naive.
Incedentally, and totally off topic, I actually think life begins well before conception, and that every cell in every creature is alive, and a beautiful mystery of the universe, including gammetes. However, this doesn't stop me from eating meat or vegtables, killing incects, taking antibiotics, using birth control, or supporting the rights of women to have abortions. The question is, when does human life begin, and the only things I am pretty sure of are that it isn't before conception or after birth. I suspect it is not particuarly close to either one of those extremes, though.
Death is a natural part of life (the last part...), and even killing: we kill plants and animals to eat and stay alive, we kill animals and bacteria that try to kill us, we step on countless incects without realizing it, untold numbers of animals die as roadkill because they don't know better and we don't think it is important enough not to build highways, and we kill each other for a variety of reasons. While I am all about keeping killing to a minimum, at the end of the day the only thing I really care about is that the human species doesn't die, and to that end I also think that we should try to stop killing born people before we worry to much about the unborn, or the non-human/non-sentient.
That is true, though probably Hank Barry can be sued for any illegal actions he is found to have taken as CEO. Other than that, I can think of no reason why an investment firm should be held liable for copyright infringment done by clients of the firm they invest in.
The important criteria is not bandwidth, but latency. A large RAID 10 system offers high bandwidth for A/V streaming applciations, but not low latency, which is an important component of program load times and OS boot time, which is a major part of user-percieved sluggishness. Better OS caching algorithms can help a lot, but SSDs almost completely cures the problem.
There is such a thing as a popular vote. It is just as well established that more Americans voted for Al Gore than George Bush (by a statistically, if not practically significant amount) It turns out that isn't how we elect the president. In fact, we by giving every state 2 + pop/1e6 votes, we aren't even trying to approximate a federal popular vote. Bush clearly won the election legitimately, but I still think the situation highlights one reason we need to change the say we elect officials.
I personally think we should replace the president with a nation wide popular vote with instant runoff/preferential voting, eliminate the senate, and replace it with nationally elected representative chosen by party affiliation. So, the Republicans would make a list of 100 people to run for Senate, and if 45% of americans voted to have the GOP represent them in the senate, the top 45 on the list would go to the Senate.
Right, but the capacity of the human brain is finite, while the capacity of hard drives is ever increasing. It is better to just save everything than worry about what to delete and what to save, and every rising hard drive capacities make that feasible. With a little (hopefully automated) organization, there is no reason the 80 GB you never listen to should get in the way of the 20 you do, and who knows -- someday you might want some of those.
Also, I have a friend who is really into live recording and the like. He has something like 320 GB of MP3s, including many that he has made himself, and stores for archival purposes, even if he doesn't listen to them himself.
Because it is there is the best possible reason for it, and one of the main reasons that the DMCA should be struck down. It doesn't matter whether any of the reasons I want to mod an X-box make sense to you, or to a judge, or can be justified financially. I bought it, and if I want to play with it, I should be able to. If I use it to pirate video games, charge me with that. If not, don't try to nail me with some phony circumvention nonsense.
Unfortunatly, it seems that "depriving a company of revenue" is now the equivlent of theft. If I find a use for and X-Box that doesn't require me to buy enough games for MS to make up the loss they chose to take on the box, or if I want to develop software for the x-box without licensing MS's development system and other software, or really do anything else that makes it hard for MS to make money, that has now become a crime. And it isn't just MS--our entire mentality seems to be shifting that corporations deserve to make money off of their products, and anyone who interferes with that must be doing something wrong, even if it is just making their product irrelevant.
Capitalism will be the death of the free market economy. (stolen from someone, I don't know who)
That said, I think there are a number of good (or good enough) reasons to use a hacked x-box. 1) as a media player in an attractive box with high quality A/V outputs and general purpose programability for future upgrades. 2) to develop your own x-box games or set-top applications without MS licenseing fees. 3) to run emulations of classic console or PC games on a large screen TV with a (relatively) nice controller. 4) To access simple general purpose computing from your living room.
All of these problems have other solutions, but none as cheap, convenient, and nice as a hacked X-box. And, if you also want to play games, they are essentially free, except for a bit of work, which might be valued higher than the X-box itself, but some people actually enjoy it.
I have actually considered using an X-box as sort of a low-power (as in watts) network server to do things like spool mail and do DHCP -- that way my "real" server could just boot up occasionally and grab mail and so forth. It would be nice to save some money on power (and A/C in the summer). Again, if there were a good low power complete computer system for a couple of hundred bucks with anywhere near the specs on an X-box, I would consider that as well, but there isn't (that I know of).
I actually just wanted to know, since I hadn't used it in a while. I had also been rather disappointed since I had used Development Studio 7.0 (ie. for DOS) and found it reasonably nice, then used several versions of VS that were crap before giving up. I used VS 6 briefly, but not enough to make an impression.
Have the improved it a lot? I haven't used VS in a while (version 4 maybe?), but at that point it was perhaps the most buggy piece of MS software ever, though early versions of IE gave it a run for its money.
The trick is to nip this thing in the bud and decide that your birthday is (say) April 4 or November 2. Make sure you choose a day a few days after so when your friends take you out drinking on your 21st birthday you can get into the bar (assuming you don't want to forge a birth certificate).
Hemp will grow in just about any soil with almost no maintenence. I have looked up the estimated net energy value for a bunch of biomass fuels, and From what I remember (can't find the link right now) hemp is not the best, but it is much better than 1 (ie, you get out as much energy as you put in) and closer to 10 (you get 10 times as much energy out as you put in). Other plants can be as high as 20, while corn runs somewhere right around 1. Yet, thanks to consistent lobbying, corn and ethanol get all the attention.
My point is that it can be made to work seamlessly with mozilla on linux, and claims to do so under windows. How many hoops you have to go through to get that set up is obviously dependent on what package you installed the software from, but it can be done, and at worst should be no more complicated than adding a line to /etc/mailcap or adding a handler in mozilla's prefs.
Hm. I did "apt-get install bittorrent" then clicked on the link and it worked.
.iso download I can recall, and all without using any of redhat's bandwidth.
They also claim that the windows installer works correctly with mozilla, now.
It is the most painless
Hopefully future debian releases will be available this way as well as with jigdo.
That is what I want one for. Unfortunately, I don't really want to risk destroying my PS2 for a handful of games, and none of the solderless ones seem to work for imports (unless you crack the region coding and burn a copy).
I think that is actually what they are doing--saying 1 kg is N atoms of silicon. They are picking silicon since it is the closest material we can come to creating an object with precicely 10^23 atoms.
That difficulty is the only reason the kg hasn't been redefined already--a standard definition isn't very useful if you can't actually implement it.
Tbe point here is not to replace the definition of the kilogram as "the mass if this block of metal" with "the mass of this sphere of silicon" but to change the definition to "the mass of N atoms of Silicon". That constitues a mathematica definition, so anybody with the appropriate tools could construct a "reference kilogram" and you don't have to worry about it changing over time or being destroyed. Right now we have an essentially irreplacable block of platinum-irridum sitting in Paris.
If they do this, then we might be able to move that particular anachronism out of its climate controlled storage chamber and put it where it belongs, which is in a museum of scientific history.
Actually, the pound is derived from the kilogram, as all English measument units are defined (by NIST) in terms of metric quantities, and have been for some time, now. So, the official defenition of an inch is 2.54 cm, and so forth.
He opted in to receive promotional material from Audiogalaxy's partners. He later opted out, but still received promotional material from Audiogalaxy's partners. That is exactly how it can violate a law. Yes, I do expect them to call up everyone they sold his email address to and say "stop using it" If they are going to sell email addresses of their customers, they need to provide a way to do that, or they are being irresponsible.
However, I think there should be some room for a resonable time to process that claim, but I would say that if they can't have the email address expunged from their records and all of their "associates" (and all they way down the food chain, if they allow the list to be resold) within 2 weeks, that is unreasonable.