The mere situation where they vehemently insist that sporting clubs are a "well organized militia" shows how far it has diverged from anything resembling reality.
you may want to educate yourself on the wording "well regulated militia" Because you are not using it in the proper context. Heres a hint. it has nothing to do with government regulations, and everything to do with owning guns in working order.
Now you're going to tell me that a pressure regulator is designed to keep things regular and in working order.
You should ask them about the modern mouse cursor (as opposed to a Missile-Command style crosshair, overlapping windows, windows with shadows, identifying icons, you know all the stuff the Xerox PARC didn't have.
1) Because the Constitution is not nearly as restrictive as Ron Paul would have us believe. It does enumerate a number of specific powers, but adds "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers" which allows for much latitude to what is allowed to do.
2a) because there is no violation. 2b) because requiring an amendment (which requires several years at a minimum to pass) for the normal day-to-day actions of the Congress, which so gridlock the national government, as to force to destruction. (IOW, Why do you hate America?)
What are the qualifications of necessary?
How does this not fall in line with enumerated powers? That's like saying "you" (the government) have the right to drive a car and therefore have the right to put gas in it, not that "you" (the government) have the right to disobey traffic laws.
An Amendment could be completed in 15 minutes in the modern era, it likely wouldn't due to the varying natures of state legislatures, but your statement is a blatant exaggeration.
Also for thousands of years the "national" government merely collected taxes for war, regional governors maintained basic functions of government. So it isn't like national gridlock really does much of anything, if anything the national legislature has been in gridlock for it's entire history. Even before the Capitol Building was completed the federalists and antifederalists were still at each others throats. Hell, Judicial Review was a product of the tenions of the era.
First of all paying for data is ridiculous, there is no data that Google needs to pay you for when they are already getting all the data from your cookies they need to generate ad revenue. Also I would like to point out there isn't a barometer in your phone, but I would love to see that in you iPhone vs. Android commercial. Freedom to check air pressure? iPhone: What is wrong with you? Android: Ditto. I think a phone needs a barometer just about as badly as it needs to support SCSI devices. (Rinse, lather, repeat for infrared)
Android supports USB devices, it doesn't need a dock connector. Apple had the advantage of building like 600,000 devices with dock connectors at a time when there was demand for something like that. Now just about every car has a USB support and many support to AD2P audio, making this request, like your barometer, and infrared port archaic.
And I don't think that for marketing sake advertising a mobile device as something that is useful when you are immobilized is the right message you want to send. Sure it's a phone... but look what happens when you stop using it for it's primary function of mobility!
So it has been well established that it is worth the cost; but we are talking LEDs here. How can they get away with charging ~$80 a pop when it shouldn't cost much more than $20 to build one yourself (that is with some flex) considering it isn't too hard to get your hands on cheap, good LEDs.
When I went into work (Meijer) the other day we got a call about 6 am telling us that we had sold a copy of Halo 2. Since I sometimes work in the Electronics section, we quickly checked the tightly held stock. Nothing was sold. I'm sure Microsoft will try to slap us with a $10,000 fine; but the faulty network the stores run on is possibly to blame.
I mean hell, I held the Star Wars DVD set 2 weeks before it was sold, and not a single one was leaked.
I don't know if it has been mentioned (I only read about half the posts) but this isn't an OS X Trojan. Instead it is an iTunes Trojan; OS X identifies it as a application, which means it isn't it's fault. It won't let you choose what application you open it with, and any program can run the mp3 stream (Real included) however only iTunes does anything.
I think there is a slew of issues with OS X that makes it "troublesome" to law enforcement. So to make a long story short: file systems, hardware issues, mach kernel and having to get to the *nix core (although single user mode can be easily accessed if not turned off)
WINE is actually a good solution as it can run natively on PPC with very few problems. The x86 emulation is going to be a little rough, but it seems that they are going to work on a lot of the code themselves (QEMU isn't very PPC friendly yet)
If somebody could get a legal pad, I think I have a game idea.
Players make obscure patent claims online in order to score loads of $$$$$. The claims will be sent to a "web site" server where it will be processed for cash value so players can be ranked worldwide...
They can't find the Beagle 2, but any word on Waldo or Osama?
And I remember a statistic that 80% of computer problems are people forgeting to plug it in; so do you think they forgot the batteries or something?
ALSO, Beagles have been traditionally hunting dogs; could they perhaps use Beagle 2 to 'find' the other probes?
With an iPod selling every 11 minutes, what good is it to sell to a market that is already filled.
I love how microsoft comes out with an "iPod Killer" that remarkably looks like a product I saw nearly 2 years ago.
can somebody say *cough* http://www.archos.com/products/prw_500375.html *cough* RIPOFF *cough*
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Stop whinning (no, not Wine-ing)
All I hear is...why not *nix or XP-64? I bet then, the G5 would loose. Ok, ok...but where is XP 64-bit? If you could read for 20 sec. you could see that the website answers why XP 64-bit isn't used.
As for *nix, what variant? Should it run on both PPC and x86 so it is an even test? Should it be x86 BSD and OS X? How should one run Photoshop on *nix? Should a gcc compiler be used on both?
We could all sit around and ask what would happen if Hitler won the war, or we can look at the info ourselves and realize he didn't. So cut the crap, and accept things for what they are for now.
I keep hearing that this is only a small percent, and that it is insignifigant; but was it not said that a journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step?
When I first started downloading music nobody heard of Napster or Kazaa, or even Gnutella, Scour Exchange, etc.
but it caught on. And with 100 million free tunes from Pepsi coming up in under 2 months, this drop is going to become a waterfall.
The God of Hubris sits in amazement as he wonders what is so great about a plastic to plexiglass with lights conversion. He then realizes how easily the title of 'God of modding' is and is content with hubris.
Those working with multitrack audio and video files are usually working with multiple HDs anyways. And if they are serious, on a fragmented SCSI Raid.
The effectiveness of defragging to is minimal as we are not not limited to 8 megs of RAM, low RPM HDs and a 25 mhz bus. Benchmarks will show you that.
Defragging will also only help if you have enough HD space to actually defrag in the first place (the general rule of thumb is 15% of the HD free)
Yes, but the filesystem is set up well-enough that it really doesn't matter. There are still people running 7100/80s on the original HD with OS 8, and not noticing any speed difference. HDs are fast enough today that fragmentation was a problem of the past.
On top of that the Archos is so, so ugly. And slow. It takes like 15 sec. to open a video clip; sometimes longer for audio.
I have a friend who has one...and well he bought the camera...sucked, tried to buy the A/V out, and no body carries it. The Archos is garbage (yellow text?!).
I still have people staring at my 5 gig iPod that is a years old. Their jaws drop when they see how smooth it is and how easily I can navigate and open files.
I've been using AAC since QT 6 came out. I have also used Vorbis, and of course MP3 (but ran away from WMA because it is garbage, and have never purposefully encoded with it).
As for the original...HOW CAN YOU DO A SPECTRUM ANALYSIS WHEN YOU RE-ENCODE THE AUDIO TO WAV!!!!! DO IT FOR ALL OF THEM OR NONE OF THEM!!!!!! *tosses results out the window*
-And I know that is because there is no good aac decoder for windows...and "Mac OS has no good software" But still you might as well have re-encoded from a 32 kbit mp3 file for those results
Anyway, it is like this...
Mp3 - Decent old, fairly free Vorbis - Buggy, fairly new, but older than AAC, free WMA - You will get better quality singing the song yourself, free if you sell your soul to M$ AAC - New sexy, room for codec improvements in MPEG-4 standard. Good quality at 128 kbit.
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The mere situation where they vehemently insist that sporting clubs are a "well organized militia" shows how far it has diverged from anything resembling reality.
you may want to educate yourself on the wording "well regulated militia" Because you are not using it in the proper context. Heres a hint. it has nothing to do with government regulations, and everything to do with owning guns in working order.
Now you're going to tell me that a pressure regulator is designed to keep things regular and in working order.
You should ask them about the modern mouse cursor (as opposed to a Missile-Command style crosshair, overlapping windows, windows with shadows, identifying icons, you know all the stuff the Xerox PARC didn't have.
1) Because the Constitution is not nearly as restrictive as Ron Paul would have us believe. It does enumerate a number of specific powers, but adds "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers" which allows for much latitude to what is allowed to do.
2a) because there is no violation.
2b) because requiring an amendment (which requires several years at a minimum to pass) for the normal day-to-day actions of the Congress, which so gridlock the national government, as to force to destruction. (IOW, Why do you hate America?)
What are the qualifications of necessary?
How does this not fall in line with enumerated powers? That's like saying "you" (the government) have the right to drive a car and therefore have the right to put gas in it, not that "you" (the government) have the right to disobey traffic laws.
An Amendment could be completed in 15 minutes in the modern era, it likely wouldn't due to the varying natures of state legislatures, but your statement is a blatant exaggeration.
Also for thousands of years the "national" government merely collected taxes for war, regional governors maintained basic functions of government. So it isn't like national gridlock really does much of anything, if anything the national legislature has been in gridlock for it's entire history. Even before the Capitol Building was completed the federalists and antifederalists were still at each others throats. Hell, Judicial Review was a product of the tenions of the era.
First of all paying for data is ridiculous, there is no data that Google needs to pay you for when they are already getting all the data from your cookies they need to generate ad revenue. Also I would like to point out there isn't a barometer in your phone, but I would love to see that in you iPhone vs. Android commercial. Freedom to check air pressure? iPhone: What is wrong with you? Android: Ditto. I think a phone needs a barometer just about as badly as it needs to support SCSI devices. (Rinse, lather, repeat for infrared) Android supports USB devices, it doesn't need a dock connector. Apple had the advantage of building like 600,000 devices with dock connectors at a time when there was demand for something like that. Now just about every car has a USB support and many support to AD2P audio, making this request, like your barometer, and infrared port archaic. And I don't think that for marketing sake advertising a mobile device as something that is useful when you are immobilized is the right message you want to send. Sure it's a phone... but look what happens when you stop using it for it's primary function of mobility!
Nothing on CNN.com
So it has been well established that it is worth the cost; but we are talking LEDs here. How can they get away with charging ~$80 a pop when it shouldn't cost much more than $20 to build one yourself (that is with some flex) considering it isn't too hard to get your hands on cheap, good LEDs.
When I went into work (Meijer) the other day we got a call about 6 am telling us that we had sold a copy of Halo 2. Since I sometimes work in the Electronics section, we quickly checked the tightly held stock. Nothing was sold. I'm sure Microsoft will try to slap us with a $10,000 fine; but the faulty network the stores run on is possibly to blame. I mean hell, I held the Star Wars DVD set 2 weeks before it was sold, and not a single one was leaked.
I don't know if it has been mentioned (I only read about half the posts) but this isn't an OS X Trojan. Instead it is an iTunes Trojan; OS X identifies it as a application, which means it isn't it's fault. It won't let you choose what application you open it with, and any program can run the mp3 stream (Real included) however only iTunes does anything.
Not only irrelevant, but ignorant. I had NO idea that you could sterilize an non-sterile living mass and make it a sterile lifeless mass...
It would be, if darWINE actually used Bochs...
I think there is a slew of issues with OS X that makes it "troublesome" to law enforcement. So to make a long story short: file systems, hardware issues, mach kernel and having to get to the *nix core (although single user mode can be easily accessed if not turned off)
WINE is actually a good solution as it can run natively on PPC with very few problems. The x86 emulation is going to be a little rough, but it seems that they are going to work on a lot of the code themselves (QEMU isn't very PPC friendly yet)
If somebody could get a legal pad, I think I have a game idea. Players make obscure patent claims online in order to score loads of $$$$$. The claims will be sent to a "web site" server where it will be processed for cash value so players can be ranked worldwide...
They can't find the Beagle 2, but any word on Waldo or Osama? And I remember a statistic that 80% of computer problems are people forgeting to plug it in; so do you think they forgot the batteries or something? ALSO, Beagles have been traditionally hunting dogs; could they perhaps use Beagle 2 to 'find' the other probes?
With an iPod selling every 11 minutes, what good is it to sell to a market that is already filled. I love how microsoft comes out with an "iPod Killer" that remarkably looks like a product I saw nearly 2 years ago. can somebody say *cough* http://www.archos.com/products/prw_500375.html *cough* RIPOFF *cough*
Stop whinning (no, not Wine-ing) All I hear is...why not *nix or XP-64? I bet then, the G5 would loose. Ok, ok...but where is XP 64-bit? If you could read for 20 sec. you could see that the website answers why XP 64-bit isn't used. As for *nix, what variant? Should it run on both PPC and x86 so it is an even test? Should it be x86 BSD and OS X? How should one run Photoshop on *nix? Should a gcc compiler be used on both? We could all sit around and ask what would happen if Hitler won the war, or we can look at the info ourselves and realize he didn't. So cut the crap, and accept things for what they are for now.
I keep hearing that this is only a small percent, and that it is insignifigant; but was it not said that a journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step? When I first started downloading music nobody heard of Napster or Kazaa, or even Gnutella, Scour Exchange, etc. but it caught on. And with 100 million free tunes from Pepsi coming up in under 2 months, this drop is going to become a waterfall.
The God of Hubris sits in amazement as he wonders what is so great about a plastic to plexiglass with lights conversion. He then realizes how easily the title of 'God of modding' is and is content with hubris.
Those working with multitrack audio and video files are usually working with multiple HDs anyways. And if they are serious, on a fragmented SCSI Raid. The effectiveness of defragging to is minimal as we are not not limited to 8 megs of RAM, low RPM HDs and a 25 mhz bus. Benchmarks will show you that. Defragging will also only help if you have enough HD space to actually defrag in the first place (the general rule of thumb is 15% of the HD free)
I can see the LAN parties now... "Will you stop it with the flashlight?!!!! Why did I buy that window kit?"
Yes, but the filesystem is set up well-enough that it really doesn't matter. There are still people running 7100/80s on the original HD with OS 8, and not noticing any speed difference. HDs are fast enough today that fragmentation was a problem of the past.
So when does the AOL Time-Warner officially licensed portable music player come out?
GREAT, if one ever had to defrag with HFS+
AAC is not Apple's, it is called MPEG-4 Standard.
On top of that the Archos is so, so ugly. And slow. It takes like 15 sec. to open a video clip; sometimes longer for audio.
I have a friend who has one...and well he bought the camera...sucked, tried to buy the A/V out, and no body carries it. The Archos is garbage (yellow text?!).
I still have people staring at my 5 gig iPod that is a years old. Their jaws drop when they see how smooth it is and how easily I can navigate and open files.
I've been using AAC since QT 6 came out. I have also used Vorbis, and of course MP3 (but ran away from WMA because it is garbage, and have never purposefully encoded with it).
As for the original...HOW CAN YOU DO A SPECTRUM ANALYSIS WHEN YOU RE-ENCODE THE AUDIO TO WAV!!!!! DO IT FOR ALL OF THEM OR NONE OF THEM!!!!!! *tosses results out the window*
-And I know that is because there is no good aac decoder for windows...and "Mac OS has no good software" But still you might as well have re-encoded from a 32 kbit mp3 file for those results
Anyway, it is like this...
Mp3 - Decent old, fairly free
Vorbis - Buggy, fairly new, but older than AAC, free
WMA - You will get better quality singing the song yourself, free if you sell your soul to M$
AAC - New sexy, room for codec improvements in MPEG-4 standard. Good quality at 128 kbit.
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