Cats falling from very high heights (i.e. skyscrapers) tend to survive the fall better than those falling from lower elevations.
Um- no. Every bone in their body breaks and their internal organs are crushed, just like a human. The "paper" you cite is an absolute crock of shit- they have TWO datapoints, and among other things, the data-fit is so poor it implies 100% survival rates above 8 stories for cats! BullSHIT! Nevermind that they consider "skyscraper" to be "under 7 stories", when most people consider a skyscraper to be at least 50 or much more.
Cats DO survive a two or three story fall(which is nowhere NEAR their terminal velocity) better than they will survive a one story fall, purely because they have plenty of time to orient themselves and extend their legs for full cushioning of the fall. If they don't have time to orient themselves, they often don't get their body fully aligned and it's a roll of the dice between bone strength and impact velocity.
How about the most fuel efficient 4 door seating for 4 w/ trunk space, radio, air conditioning, that meets federal safety and crash tests?
How about comparing modern day cars, trains, busses, and planes, on a per-passenger basis?
According to Top Gear a few nights ago, trains get worse mileage than the average car, per passenger(I'm trying to find any info about the study online to see if that's based on maximum capacity of each type of vehicle or real-world average passenger counts) and a high speed train gets worse mileage than a jumbo jet! Personally I'm kind of curious about a subway train as well. Both averages(ie based on typical # of people in them) and maximum figures would be interesting for all vehicles.
When they asked the UK "Green Party" for a statement, they said "the best choice is the journey not taken". Um...okay.
Oh, and ever watched a diesel locomotive idling or at speed, belching lots of blue/black smoke? How about a city bus? Here in Boston, they're downright filthy, and in neighborhoods near the bus depots and garages, asthma rates are much higher, and studies have repeatedly shown diesel soot causes both cancer and asthma.
if (greed == good_stuff_gets_done)
printf("Why the f*ck is this a problem again?")
My problem is when people misattribute why the "good stuff got done" to goodwill. "Oh, XYZ's CEO cares SO MUCH about cancer research that they donated.01% of their annual profits to (insert charity here), which they were able to write off as a tax deduction so it really didn't cost them a dime. Oh, bless their hearts."
Oh, and by the way- you may think it's amusing to write "code" to express an opinion, but it's not(especially when you clearly get the programming concepts vs. language constructs relationship wrong). Learn to express yourself properly. Code is for computers, language is for humans.
Office Depot and Hewlett Packard will be splitting the bill.
Must be the same "bill" as the one they have for recycling(gee, what swell guys) those $20 inkjet cartridges.
Seriously, corporations don't do jack unless they think it'll help them sell their wares. If Office Depot and HP aren't making money by giving all the junk to a recycling company, they're expecting to steal away customers from Staples and IBM, with good will. They're probably doing both.
Sorry, but touchy-feely posts about corporations doing "good stuff", like sponsoring breast cancer research(a favorite for companies looking to increase female customer numbers, such as BMW), disgusts me. Yes, the byproduct is "good stuff gets done"- but don't go on about them doing it from the bottom of their hearts or because they -care-. Corporations don't have hearts, and neither do boards or executive officers. They do it because they want to sell more stuff and want the PR points- it's pure greed.
One does wonder what other sorts of biochemistry are going on with riders(I've always thought it was kind of ironic that Lance was sponsored by a major pharmaceutical, and yes, I am deeply suspicious that Lance's chemo and related drugs somehow altered his body to make him much stronger; I don't think he would be stupid enough to be doping himself), seeing as how doping is rampant in virtually all other sports- and the message to little kids has been nothing of zero tolerance but instead "I'm a good guy, I couldn't have been doing drugs, even though my trainer was caught twice before doping his runners and I failed a drug test" etc etc.
Then there's the baseball players, who were TOLD AHEAD OF TIME they'd be tested. When they were tested- ONE QUARTER of them failed! Unbelievable! That's like telling everyone the answer to a one question quiz, and then having 25% fail!
I forget which bike race it was, but police did a raid on the rider's barracks one night, and it was like a scene from animal house- they had riders leaping out of windows in their underwear, hiding in the bushes, running off, etc. They found dozens upon dozens of drug vials, needles, pills, you name it. It was absolutely pathetic.
They should license/resolve this pretty quickly. They can afford to. Then, it doesn't matter what the outcome of litigation is. The largest retailer in the world will be using them.
Saying "oh, it'll be a drop in the bucket for walmart because they're so big" is not terribly insightful- in fact, it's downright asinine.
Funny thing about licensing fees- they're often per-item, or based on the size(er, wealth) of the victim(er, licensee). It could very well cost Walmart hundreds of millions of dollars over a couple years...in which case, you can damn well bet they'll spend a [few] million to fight it.
How in the world do you expect the mythical "Joe Sixpack" to manage that?
Why would the mythical Joe Sixpack be managing a computer or domain with 500 users, and further, be bothered enough by the different icon color? A company with 500 windows users damn well better have an experienced windows tech.
It's probably there to help some poor geek in a fortune-500 whose PHB declares, "fix that" and makes him waste a week on it so the department looks busy.
This web site has a large collection of links to humorous Microsoft Knowledge Base articles
Um, no, they're really not.
Sampling:
Article about how an IBM flat panel monitor causes interference with the MS wireless mouse. Hahahahaaha. Not.
Article about how the user group ICON changes to one with grey hair. Not some amusing article about user groups(as in LUGs) as was implied. It's also not "spontaneous", it happens at exactly 500 users. Every single time. It's a small feature, really, that probably confused some MCSE's.
broken link to a supposed "pandora's box program" article.
the ages old, stupid "keyboard not present press F1 to continue"(WHEN YOU HAVE PLUGGED IN A $#@!ING KEYBOARD, when will you people understand it's not even remotely funny)
Article about how you can't eject a laptop from its docking station if one of the docking station ports is in use. HAHAHA. Not.
I like geeky humor as much as the next slashdot reader, but many of the "funny "articles aren't even remotely funny- many of them describe some unusual problem, and that's it.
There are a few gems(How to Read the Fucking Manual is amusing in that it's even there), but in general, they REALLY stretched the definition of "funny" on many of these submissions.
It seems that Debian based distros have been taking off (especially live CD based ones, which install much more easily than Deb). Won't this just put it farther behind?
If I had to pick one great failing in the business world, it'd be "too many irons in the fire". Many a company has tried to sell you everything and anything- and thusfar, the only company to do it successfully has been Walmart, and that's at least partially from stepping on their workers like they're dirt, but that's another story for another time.
Debian excels at being reliable and "serious". I don't use it because, unfortunately, it's not even -remotely- close to current; it's about two weeks shy of two years old. However, it is serving a specific market, and it should not pander to trying to please everyone. Mandrake is worse, in my opinion- they still want to be everything from your desktop to your server; they excel in the desktop arena, and that is where they should focus for the same reason.
Do one thing, do it well- and never have to worry about pleasing everyone, having conflicting goals, etc. You'll never have to say, "well, this configuration system will never be understood by new linux users!"- because your market is experienced linux users who will appreciate extra functionality (by the way, this is a mythical example).
I've never used Debian, but understand the advantages and have a few friends who prefer it. I like and use Mandrake on desktop systems I have to use regularly; my personal "servers" get Gentoo. Redhat is what I use for business/enterprise stuff.
The metal frames for the raised floor are where the zinc whiskers are coming from. They get sucked into the power supplies and short them out.
I'd be a lot more inclined to believe the "whiskers" are coming from movement of the tiles when people walk across them(they do shift, as does the frame slightly) and not some "growing whiskers" BS.
Furthermore, the problem is easily solved via any/combination of these:
Using the floor for return only(ie, suction) and using good air filters in the A/C units
Using ducted A/C under the floor if you must do supply via the floor
Regular maintenance, ie blowing the dust out of power supplies and such, combined with some sort of vacuum to collect the dust you raise
Using filters in equipment itself
Wiping all surfaces down with swiffer-ish cloths on a regular basis, ie dusting the place.
Furthermore, if the little buggers are metallic, why don't you just install a few small but powerful magnets in various ducts? A metal grate made up with a set of magnetic rods would probably work like a swell charm, and only require periodic cleaning...
I called 911 and get, I not am sh1tting you "we're really busy right now"
It's called prioritizing. "Deal with shooting or deal with guy who's being followed by some teenager punk. Hmm." "I am not sh1tting you", 911 is heavily abused. Sample calls, according to dispatchers I've spoken with: "Hi, do you know the number for ____?" "I lost my dog..." "Can you give me directions to...", then the ever-popular hangups, which of course they have to investigate, tying up an officer's time. Then there are shut-in bitches who tell war+peace about the neighbor's [dog barking/yard mess/porch lights on/you name it]. The list goes on, and on, and on.
Most police departments are also pretty short-staffed these days. Bush is mostly responsible on two counts; 1, for cutting back on federal funding for local emergency staff- police, EMS and fire all have been hit hard in almost every town throughout the US. 2, a large percentage of Guard and Reservists are (surprise!) also town/city fire fighters, police, EMS, etc.
I later went back to look at the laws in my state governing self-defense.
How about looking up the noise ordinances, instead? Most cities and towns have 'em. NY, for example, is getting very tough on noise complaints (I believe you dial 311, ie the non-emergency number?) Borrow a neighbor's video camera (they'll be happy to oblige if it's annoying them as well) and videotape the clown going by- be sure to get a closeup of his face, and his plates. Call the NON EMERGENCY ie business number for the local station, ask to set up an appointment with an officer or detective. Problem solved and out of your hands.
Next thing I know the guy is chasing me around trying to run me off the road.
Um- duh. Get away from him, file a police report later with the plates and vehicle description. You've also hit upon why I carry a Bronx Calling Card, aka 3-D-cell Maglight, in my front door pocket. I have been doing so ever since someone told me they'd "fucking kill me" at a stoplight when I told him he his highbeams were stuck on. This was, incidentally, in downtown Larchmont, NY(very swanky neighborhood), the guy was not driving a riced out POS, and he was white.
One of many reasons I moved out of NY state- everyone's a prick out to kill you at the drop of a hat.
Topic of this vote aside how is Europe supposed to get anywhere if a country votes one way and then a couple of months later changes its decision? They had time enough to make up their minds. Decisons this will only undermine political credibility in Europe.
Italy's government was going to protest, but changed three times over the months between the votes.
Then there's Spain. I find the phrase "undermine political credibility in Europe" to be a laughable concept when an entire country changes its majority party in a radical direction because of a single terrorist bombing.
Mr. CEO, don't let your conscience bother you
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which are slowly but surely bridging the digital divide in rural India
Don't I seem to recall that in the last election in India, heads rolled because rural residents(who were by far the majority) were pissed off at getting left behind?
This strikes me as a "don't feel guilty about the fact that your Indian employees make 50 times what the rural Indian farmer does" article.
And- furthermore-, rural Indian farmers don't need goddamn "ruggedized" linux-flavored PDAs. Clothe them. Get them running water. Get them something resembling health care. Employ them. Educate them. Roughly in that order. Notice nowhere in there was "give them gameboys so they can check their land ownership status".
Not that we're any better in the US. Teachers may have a PC in every classroom or a shiny lab of computers, but students have to share copies of the book they're reading.
Don't be looking for that 'approved' Linux DVD player soon."
I'm sorry, but I just really have a pet peeve for geeks who don't show the slightest business-world saavy.
First off, there ARE approved DVD players running Linux, if I'm not mistaken.
Second, if by "approved" you mean "MPlayer will have the little DVD industry logo", change "not soon" to "never". There are royalties involved, and that's never going to change. The DVD consortium cares about profits from the royalties first and pleasing the movie industry second (what's the movie industry gonna do, go to another format? Stop releasing DVD disks? Uh huh).
"Supporting open source, non-royalty-paying, market-share-stealing-from-royalty-paying-players, pirates-movies-easy-as-1-2-3, bypasses-our-forced-previews-and-FBI warnings software" has never been on anyone's(manufacturers, DVD standard consortium, movie industry, MPAA) list, and if you even suggested it, you'd be blown out of the room by the severe laughing fit that resulted.
Between gasps for air, grabbing their sides, and wiping their tears, they'd say, "oh look, he's so naive, isn't that just the cutest thing in the world".
You miss the point entirely. This article is good because it puts the power of filtering in the hands of the parent, where it belongs *NOT* the government.
It may put it in the hands of A VERY SMALL NUMBER of parents, but it certainly doesn't take it out of the hands of the government and right-wing psycho born-agains.
I love how you don't take my comments in context, and get modded 5 insightful, while I get modded 1, Insightful. Then you continue to miss the point, and get THAT post modded up as well. JHC, it's time to start metamoderating again.
The parent post, which I was replying to, said all yippy skippy, "oh, this'll keep those nasty legislators from making nasty laws about censoring firewalls!"(for which he got modded 5, Insightful- for a comment that clearly was anything but).
My answer was, essentially that the original poster's comments were a complete non-sequitur; a filtering package for an obscure operating system will do jack shit as far as filtering in schools and libraries.
This player uses Atrac3Plus as its primary format, with support for other Atrac formats. It's default format isn't the one used in this comparison. So the comparison isn't really valid, or up to date.
You're right, it's worse. Try to load an mp3, and it converts it into Atrac3Plus. By definition, it MUST sound worse after this, because you've compressed/decompressed it twice using lossy methods. It's akin to opening saving a TIFF as a JPEG, and saving it back to JPEG again.
Also, every comparison I've seen rates Atrac(and all its variants) well below AAC, or doesn't bother to rate it at all, given how only Sony uses it, and only sony seems insistent on forcing it on customers who really don't want it- virtually every Sony product to use it has been a dismal failure(witness MiniDisc).
The easier and more accurate it is for parents to filter content for their own children, based on their own values, the less likely it is for them to scream for the government to do it for them.
Considering that the people usually screaming the loudest for government to "protect" their children are usually the dimmest bulb in the marquee sign (not to mention the laziest, unable to supervise their children they supposedly care about so much; we have a few on our street who demand "GO SLOW! We love our children!" signs from the town instead of teaching their kids not to run into the road), I don't see how filtering for linux (which by its nature requires a certain persuasion towards intelligence by its very nature) is going to help. You're not very likely to find linux running in in a trailer park, folks.
It also doesn't solve the problem of filtering in libraries and schools, which is what all the christian/right-wing nutjobs (personified in the Simpsons as Mrs. Flanders- "Oh! Won't someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!") scream about anyway.
video is cool, but now try doing it in a real world situation where you've got 60% of that space
Yes, and most volvos have exceptionally small turning radii. I've parked a full-size volvo wagon in a space about one foot larger than the car.
I have to wonder if they just didn't bother trying with cars closer together in the interests of time and body panels(even with stop switches, something's gonna get scuffed), or if that's the closest the thing could handle.
This booklet is the size of CD? What? Are they being deliberately ironic, or something?
The packaging has to be at least the dimensions of a CDROM, since the windows side needs software. Thanks to the music industry there are a ton of printers who know very well how to make low-page-count, CD-sized booklets.
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Um- no. Every bone in their body breaks and their internal organs are crushed, just like a human. The "paper" you cite is an absolute crock of shit- they have TWO datapoints, and among other things, the data-fit is so poor it implies 100% survival rates above 8 stories for cats! BullSHIT! Nevermind that they consider "skyscraper" to be "under 7 stories", when most people consider a skyscraper to be at least 50 or much more.
Cats DO survive a two or three story fall(which is nowhere NEAR their terminal velocity) better than they will survive a one story fall, purely because they have plenty of time to orient themselves and extend their legs for full cushioning of the fall. If they don't have time to orient themselves, they often don't get their body fully aligned and it's a roll of the dice between bone strength and impact velocity.
How about comparing modern day cars, trains, busses, and planes, on a per-passenger basis?
According to Top Gear a few nights ago, trains get worse mileage than the average car, per passenger(I'm trying to find any info about the study online to see if that's based on maximum capacity of each type of vehicle or real-world average passenger counts) and a high speed train gets worse mileage than a jumbo jet! Personally I'm kind of curious about a subway train as well. Both averages(ie based on typical # of people in them) and maximum figures would be interesting for all vehicles.
When they asked the UK "Green Party" for a statement, they said "the best choice is the journey not taken". Um...okay.
Oh, and ever watched a diesel locomotive idling or at speed, belching lots of blue/black smoke? How about a city bus? Here in Boston, they're downright filthy, and in neighborhoods near the bus depots and garages, asthma rates are much higher, and studies have repeatedly shown diesel soot causes both cancer and asthma.
My problem is when people misattribute why the "good stuff got done" to goodwill. "Oh, XYZ's CEO cares SO MUCH about cancer research that they donated .01% of their annual profits to (insert charity here), which they were able to write off as a tax deduction so it really didn't cost them a dime. Oh, bless their hearts."
Oh, and by the way- you may think it's amusing to write "code" to express an opinion, but it's not(especially when you clearly get the programming concepts vs. language constructs relationship wrong). Learn to express yourself properly. Code is for computers, language is for humans.
Must be the same "bill" as the one they have for recycling(gee, what swell guys) those $20 inkjet cartridges.
Seriously, corporations don't do jack unless they think it'll help them sell their wares. If Office Depot and HP aren't making money by giving all the junk to a recycling company, they're expecting to steal away customers from Staples and IBM, with good will. They're probably doing both.
Sorry, but touchy-feely posts about corporations doing "good stuff", like sponsoring breast cancer research(a favorite for companies looking to increase female customer numbers, such as BMW), disgusts me. Yes, the byproduct is "good stuff gets done"- but don't go on about them doing it from the bottom of their hearts or because they -care-. Corporations don't have hearts, and neither do boards or executive officers. They do it because they want to sell more stuff and want the PR points- it's pure greed.
One does wonder what other sorts of biochemistry are going on with riders(I've always thought it was kind of ironic that Lance was sponsored by a major pharmaceutical, and yes, I am deeply suspicious that Lance's chemo and related drugs somehow altered his body to make him much stronger; I don't think he would be stupid enough to be doping himself), seeing as how doping is rampant in virtually all other sports- and the message to little kids has been nothing of zero tolerance but instead "I'm a good guy, I couldn't have been doing drugs, even though my trainer was caught twice before doping his runners and I failed a drug test" etc etc.
Then there's the baseball players, who were TOLD AHEAD OF TIME they'd be tested. When they were tested- ONE QUARTER of them failed! Unbelievable! That's like telling everyone the answer to a one question quiz, and then having 25% fail!
I forget which bike race it was, but police did a raid on the rider's barracks one night, and it was like a scene from animal house- they had riders leaping out of windows in their underwear, hiding in the bushes, running off, etc. They found dozens upon dozens of drug vials, needles, pills, you name it. It was absolutely pathetic.
Saying "oh, it'll be a drop in the bucket for walmart because they're so big" is not terribly insightful- in fact, it's downright asinine.
Funny thing about licensing fees- they're often per-item, or based on the size(er, wealth) of the victim(er, licensee). It could very well cost Walmart hundreds of millions of dollars over a couple years...in which case, you can damn well bet they'll spend a [few] million to fight it.
Why would the mythical Joe Sixpack be managing a computer or domain with 500 users, and further, be bothered enough by the different icon color? A company with 500 windows users damn well better have an experienced windows tech.
It's probably there to help some poor geek in a fortune-500 whose PHB declares, "fix that" and makes him waste a week on it so the department looks busy.
Um, no, they're really not.
Sampling:
I like geeky humor as much as the next slashdot reader, but many of the "funny "articles aren't even remotely funny- many of them describe some unusual problem, and that's it.
There are a few gems(How to Read the Fucking Manual is amusing in that it's even there), but in general, they REALLY stretched the definition of "funny" on many of these submissions.
If I had to pick one great failing in the business world, it'd be "too many irons in the fire". Many a company has tried to sell you everything and anything- and thusfar, the only company to do it successfully has been Walmart, and that's at least partially from stepping on their workers like they're dirt, but that's another story for another time.
Debian excels at being reliable and "serious". I don't use it because, unfortunately, it's not even -remotely- close to current; it's about two weeks shy of two years old. However, it is serving a specific market, and it should not pander to trying to please everyone. Mandrake is worse, in my opinion- they still want to be everything from your desktop to your server; they excel in the desktop arena, and that is where they should focus for the same reason.
Do one thing, do it well- and never have to worry about pleasing everyone, having conflicting goals, etc. You'll never have to say, "well, this configuration system will never be understood by new linux users!"- because your market is experienced linux users who will appreciate extra functionality (by the way, this is a mythical example).
I've never used Debian, but understand the advantages and have a few friends who prefer it. I like and use Mandrake on desktop systems I have to use regularly; my personal "servers" get Gentoo. Redhat is what I use for business/enterprise stuff.
Oh come on, you can do better than that.
How about: "before the server lost orbit, crashed and burned". Or, "before the server went down in flames faster than Mir Space Station".
I'd be a lot more inclined to believe the "whiskers" are coming from movement of the tiles when people walk across them(they do shift, as does the frame slightly) and not some "growing whiskers" BS.
Furthermore, the problem is easily solved via any/combination of these:
Furthermore, if the little buggers are metallic, why don't you just install a few small but powerful magnets in various ducts? A metal grate made up with a set of magnetic rods would probably work like a swell charm, and only require periodic cleaning...
It's called prioritizing. "Deal with shooting or deal with guy who's being followed by some teenager punk. Hmm." "I am not sh1tting you", 911 is heavily abused. Sample calls, according to dispatchers I've spoken with: "Hi, do you know the number for ____?" "I lost my dog..." "Can you give me directions to...", then the ever-popular hangups, which of course they have to investigate, tying up an officer's time. Then there are shut-in bitches who tell war+peace about the neighbor's [dog barking/yard mess/porch lights on/you name it]. The list goes on, and on, and on.
Most police departments are also pretty short-staffed these days. Bush is mostly responsible on two counts; 1, for cutting back on federal funding for local emergency staff- police, EMS and fire all have been hit hard in almost every town throughout the US. 2, a large percentage of Guard and Reservists are (surprise!) also town/city fire fighters, police, EMS, etc.
I later went back to look at the laws in my state governing self-defense.
How about looking up the noise ordinances, instead? Most cities and towns have 'em. NY, for example, is getting very tough on noise complaints (I believe you dial 311, ie the non-emergency number?) Borrow a neighbor's video camera (they'll be happy to oblige if it's annoying them as well) and videotape the clown going by- be sure to get a closeup of his face, and his plates. Call the NON EMERGENCY ie business number for the local station, ask to set up an appointment with an officer or detective. Problem solved and out of your hands.
Next thing I know the guy is chasing me around trying to run me off the road.
Um- duh. Get away from him, file a police report later with the plates and vehicle description. You've also hit upon why I carry a Bronx Calling Card, aka 3-D-cell Maglight, in my front door pocket. I have been doing so ever since someone told me they'd "fucking kill me" at a stoplight when I told him he his highbeams were stuck on. This was, incidentally, in downtown Larchmont, NY(very swanky neighborhood), the guy was not driving a riced out POS, and he was white.
One of many reasons I moved out of NY state- everyone's a prick out to kill you at the drop of a hat.
Italy's government was going to protest, but changed three times over the months between the votes.
Then there's Spain. I find the phrase "undermine political credibility in Europe" to be a laughable concept when an entire country changes its majority party in a radical direction because of a single terrorist bombing.
Don't I seem to recall that in the last election in India, heads rolled because rural residents(who were by far the majority) were pissed off at getting left behind?
This strikes me as a "don't feel guilty about the fact that your Indian employees make 50 times what the rural Indian farmer does" article.
And- furthermore-, rural Indian farmers don't need goddamn "ruggedized" linux-flavored PDAs. Clothe them. Get them running water. Get them something resembling health care. Employ them. Educate them. Roughly in that order. Notice nowhere in there was "give them gameboys so they can check their land ownership status".
Not that we're any better in the US. Teachers may have a PC in every classroom or a shiny lab of computers, but students have to share copies of the book they're reading.
I'm sorry, but I just really have a pet peeve for geeks who don't show the slightest business-world saavy.
First off, there ARE approved DVD players running Linux, if I'm not mistaken.
Second, if by "approved" you mean "MPlayer will have the little DVD industry logo", change "not soon" to "never". There are royalties involved, and that's never going to change. The DVD consortium cares about profits from the royalties first and pleasing the movie industry second (what's the movie industry gonna do, go to another format? Stop releasing DVD disks? Uh huh).
"Supporting open source, non-royalty-paying, market-share-stealing-from-royalty-paying-players, pirates-movies-easy-as-1-2-3, bypasses-our-forced-previews-and-FBI warnings software" has never been on anyone's(manufacturers, DVD standard consortium, movie industry, MPAA) list, and if you even suggested it, you'd be blown out of the room by the severe laughing fit that resulted.
Between gasps for air, grabbing their sides, and wiping their tears, they'd say, "oh look, he's so naive, isn't that just the cutest thing in the world".
It may put it in the hands of A VERY SMALL NUMBER of parents, but it certainly doesn't take it out of the hands of the government and right-wing psycho born-agains.
I love how you don't take my comments in context, and get modded 5 insightful, while I get modded 1, Insightful. Then you continue to miss the point, and get THAT post modded up as well. JHC, it's time to start metamoderating again.
The parent post, which I was replying to, said all yippy skippy, "oh, this'll keep those nasty legislators from making nasty laws about censoring firewalls!"(for which he got modded 5, Insightful- for a comment that clearly was anything but).
My answer was, essentially that the original poster's comments were a complete non-sequitur; a filtering package for an obscure operating system will do jack shit as far as filtering in schools and libraries.
That's straight from the slashdot blurb. Talk about lazy, JHC...
You're right, it's worse. Try to load an mp3, and it converts it into Atrac3Plus. By definition, it MUST sound worse after this, because you've compressed/decompressed it twice using lossy methods. It's akin to opening saving a TIFF as a JPEG, and saving it back to JPEG again.
Also, every comparison I've seen rates Atrac(and all its variants) well below AAC, or doesn't bother to rate it at all, given how only Sony uses it, and only sony seems insistent on forcing it on customers who really don't want it- virtually every Sony product to use it has been a dismal failure(witness MiniDisc).
Considering that the people usually screaming the loudest for government to "protect" their children are usually the dimmest bulb in the marquee sign (not to mention the laziest, unable to supervise their children they supposedly care about so much; we have a few on our street who demand "GO SLOW! We love our children!" signs from the town instead of teaching their kids not to run into the road), I don't see how filtering for linux (which by its nature requires a certain persuasion towards intelligence by its very nature) is going to help. You're not very likely to find linux running in in a trailer park, folks.
It also doesn't solve the problem of filtering in libraries and schools, which is what all the christian/right-wing nutjobs (personified in the Simpsons as Mrs. Flanders- "Oh! Won't someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!") scream about anyway.
Yes, and most volvos have exceptionally small turning radii. I've parked a full-size volvo wagon in a space about one foot larger than the car.
I have to wonder if they just didn't bother trying with cars closer together in the interests of time and body panels(even with stop switches, something's gonna get scuffed), or if that's the closest the thing could handle.
Does the server announce "frag safely?" and ask you if you remembered your helmet?
Gentoo based, hmm- do you have to compile your own gas?
I'm sure it's a matter of time until someone figures out how to transfer audio data to a print medium, for later retrieval via barcode scanner.
There was some promising work early on, but the labels kept catching fire, unfortunately.
[ducks, runs for cover]
Metisse (or métisse) means 'mixture' in French.
Good thing you posted that- I thought from the article that it meant "MacOS"!
Phbt, as if.
Justice Dept management: "So what do we use to store our stuff on?"
Tech: "Well, at the moment, just a bunch of disks."
Justice Dept management: "well shit, that's not going to sound very good in the report. Just a...hmm..we'll call it, JABOD!"
Assistant: whisper whisper acronym-making regulations (AMRs) whisper
Justice Dept management: "Right! JBOD!"
The packaging has to be at least the dimensions of a CDROM, since the windows side needs software. Thanks to the music industry there are a ton of printers who know very well how to make low-page-count, CD-sized booklets.