The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
I can't stand *any* mp3 encoded with VBR of any kind, it sounds like cracking and whooshing. I've reluctantly given VBR vorbis a try and it sounds much better. but I'll gladly go with 192k fixed bitrate mp3 before I'll do VBR at 256. lately I've just been using oggenc -q 8, and though it takes up a fair bit of space, it's good enough for all practical purposes.
(of course, if you do most of your music listening in the car, you might as well go with 96kbps mp3 and save some space)
well, I guess we can't expect to see any godspeed you black emporer records on iTMS anytime soon. their show was 2.5 hours. I think they played 6 tunes? maybe 7.
not that a right-minded label like constellation would ever go in for that sort of deal anyway.
/me starts his teac reels to make an illegal backup of 'lift your skinny fists'
the geocachers? I would consider them cool if they used map/compass and not a gadget from Fry's. finding section markers in the middle of the mojave desert = fun. with a GPS receiver it's trivial.
I have a 20GB quantum that I'm using for backup/restore staging. it was attached to my machine when I pulled it out of the trash. based on the sticker it's been working fine for 3 years, but it doesn't inspire confidence to see it identified by BIOS as QUANTUM FIREBALL 20GB. fireball? what were you THINKING??
or he puts a nice 8-ply copper foil shroud on the GPS antenna.
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well, at least on/. there is a system for determining what gets posted as stories; anyone can submit a story. there's a democratic moderation system (for better or worse), and anyone can post a comment without it being deleted.
contrast blog-land: one person picks what gets posted. one person submits the stories. there is no moderation or editing, save the amount of blog-scene-points the blogger can accrue. comments subject to deletion.
you see anything +5 Insightful on her blog? I see plenty of 0 Redundant. the problem's not that she's a girl. the problem is that she's ignorant+dogmatic.
If a 3rd party infringed on someone's copyright by adding code to Linux and "releasing" that code under the GPL, that doesn't mean the code can be freely redistributed under the GPL. The person adding it to the Linux kernel did not do so legally, not being the copyright holder nor being granted a license by the copyright holder. He did not have the right to release it under the GPL.
why didn't SCO check the Linux kernel source against their Unixware source before they started distributing it under the GPL? why did they continue distributing it for 18 months after 'discovering' the allegedly copied code? why is Linux code still available from the SCO ftp site??
you'd think that they're in a unique position *not* to mindlessly release a Unix workalike, being that they're the sole proprietors of Unixware.
bayesian (and similar) filters would be a massive boon to search engines, although I suspect few (if any) have implemented them at the moment. suddenly, there could be some teeth behind the "I Found This Informative" button. imagine, a search engine that identifies news stories & whitepapers, or blogs, porn, you name it!
search engines also present a uniquely robust platform for training such filters, due to the massive number of users & queries in/out.
I think you mean that english has inherited a lot of latin plurals. the rule of "two sounds together that sound remarkably alike should be changed to 'i' sound" is what's called a false backformation. viruses is perfectly acceptable. virii is also acceptable, but rarer.
usually when I want to reinstall something all I have to run is "make install". ~/download/tarballs has all the.tar.gz's and the complete trees they unpack!
yeah I've got so much HD space I dont even know what to do with it. that will change, I fear, with the big dump of WAVs that ardour's going to put down this summer.
ah. good thing I stopped buying printers. I get them all out of the trash. usually it's a lot of deskjets that get that horizontal smearing - 8 q-tips and a spoon of water fixes that. ah, those crazy emory kids, they throw away their expensive electronics at the end of the semester, I spend 5 minutes fixing it, and then sell it back to them! most of my apartment is furnished from the trash.
how do you make a vending machine that reliably accepts three different sizes of bills? it's hard enough getting them in straight with tiny folds. as if redesigning the bills weren't enough, this would break a lot of systems for copy-card, university ID, vending machines etc.
(before you jump out with the "all coke machines are under $1.00," remember inflation, and that machines vend things besides coke and pork rinds.)
the neuros web site says the 20gb model is 5.3" x 3.1" x 1.3", 9.4 oz... in two of those dimensions it's larger than my CD player. in all three it's larger than an ipod.
the 128mb model is 4.3" x 2.5" x 1.3", 5.8 oz.. still too big and it only holds 2 hours of ogg+vorbis. I can swap out 128mb worth of smartmedia in my 3-yr old samsung mp3 player... and that's only 2"x2"x0.5".
I can't afford this, it's too big, but I wish them luck.
no, I mean criminal. like mail fraud. a count of 'sending unsolicited commercial email', with a fine of up to $10,000. granted the harms of spam seem civil, but end users are *really* not the ones suffering those damages. it's the network providers that are getting hit hard.... and... theft doesn't carry a civil damage...
I didn't vote for that shit. they got enough petitions to put it on the referendum ballot. everyone laughed. then it passed.
as much as I hate spam, this law is in the same league. I don't think unsolicited email warrants a $500 civil damage. I think a $10,000 criminal fine for spammers is more appropriate.
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The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
I found an old box of bandaids behind the toilet. it was soaked in greenish liquid. contents sterile unless opened?
(of course, if you do most of your music listening in the car, you might as well go with 96kbps mp3 and save some space)
so i take it you only play poker and blackjack.
not that a right-minded label like constellation would ever go in for that sort of deal anyway.
/me starts his teac reels to make an illegal backup of 'lift your skinny fists'
also don't forget that 16-22khz brings AAC to its knees :-)
I think you mean this.
we should write to thank him. his senate home page is here.
the geocachers? I would consider them cool if they used map/compass and not a gadget from Fry's. finding section markers in the middle of the mojave desert = fun. with a GPS receiver it's trivial.
any of you signing with Apple will be marked in red as DO NOT BUY.
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I have a 20GB quantum that I'm using for backup/restore staging. it was attached to my machine when I pulled it out of the trash. based on the sticker it's been working fine for 3 years, but it doesn't inspire confidence to see it identified by BIOS as QUANTUM FIREBALL 20GB. fireball? what were you THINKING??
you mean homophones. lead/lead are homonyms.
or he puts a nice 8-ply copper foil shroud on the GPS antenna.
contrast blog-land: one person picks what gets posted. one person submits the stories. there is no moderation or editing, save the amount of blog-scene-points the blogger can accrue. comments subject to deletion.
you see anything +5 Insightful on her blog? I see plenty of 0 Redundant. the problem's not that she's a girl. the problem is that she's ignorant+dogmatic.
you seem to be persuaded she's intelligent. RTFA.
why didn't SCO check the Linux kernel source against their Unixware source before they started distributing it under the GPL? why did they continue distributing it for 18 months after 'discovering' the allegedly copied code? why is Linux code still available from the SCO ftp site??
you'd think that they're in a unique position *not* to mindlessly release a Unix workalike, being that they're the sole proprietors of Unixware.
search engines also present a uniquely robust platform for training such filters, due to the massive number of users & queries in/out.
I think you mean that english has inherited a lot of latin plurals. the rule of "two sounds together that sound remarkably alike should be changed to 'i' sound" is what's called a false backformation. viruses is perfectly acceptable. virii is also acceptable, but rarer.
yeah I've got so much HD space I dont even know what to do with it. that will change, I fear, with the big dump of WAVs that ardour's going to put down this summer.
ah. good thing I stopped buying printers. I get them all out of the trash. usually it's a lot of deskjets that get that horizontal smearing - 8 q-tips and a spoon of water fixes that. ah, those crazy emory kids, they throw away their expensive electronics at the end of the semester, I spend 5 minutes fixing it, and then sell it back to them! most of my apartment is furnished from the trash.
(before you jump out with the "all coke machines are under $1.00," remember inflation, and that machines vend things besides coke and pork rinds.)
the 128mb model is 4.3" x 2.5" x 1.3", 5.8 oz.. still too big and it only holds 2 hours of ogg+vorbis. I can swap out 128mb worth of smartmedia in my 3-yr old samsung mp3 player... and that's only 2"x2"x0.5".
I can't afford this, it's too big, but I wish them luck.
no, I mean criminal. like mail fraud. a count of 'sending unsolicited commercial email', with a fine of up to $10,000. granted the harms of spam seem civil, but end users are *really* not the ones suffering those damages. it's the network providers that are getting hit hard. ... and ... theft doesn't carry a civil damage...
damn, caught me.
I didn't vote for that shit. they got enough petitions to put it on the referendum ballot. everyone laughed. then it passed.
as much as I hate spam, this law is in the same league. I don't think unsolicited email warrants a $500 civil damage. I think a $10,000 criminal fine for spammers is more appropriate.