Sorry, but I find this stupid. This won't solve anything. What if a company or organization wants to do business with people in more countires? Do you suggest Microsoft should register 100+ domains? Oh I see they have a lot of money so yes they should, so what about Wikipedia? Sourceforge?
Laws can now be applied based on where the site is hosted, base them on domain names and you can have [insert something evil] hosted right in the US, but with.cn domain!
The internet is supposed to be free, if a foriegn state doesn't like what other countries are putting up, they can go fuck themselves.
You may want to check out some of Creative's players. I own a 60GB Zen Xtra, and never noticed any gaps. Just now I listened to Deep Purple's Made in Japan (2 CD remastered), and have to admit there is a gap between songs, however it's very short, I'd say less than 0.5 seconds.
Ermm... Unlike flying cars, we already have robots that mow your lawn, vacuum, wash windows and clean swimming pools. As they become cheaper and more useful more people will buy them.
> [...] and marketing folks really have our best interests at heart.
I'm currently taking a course in marketing, and I'd say that the main goal of marketing is to satisfy customer needs, not push ads down everyone's throat. The defenition from the book says that marketing is "a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others"
>If they'd talk straight about taxes, I'd be more willing to vote for them.
Aren't Badnarik/Campagna and the LP talking about taxes enough? They clearly say that they would lower taxes and let you keep more money, just watch/listen any of the debates with Michael, read about the LP at badnarik.org or take the shortest political quiz
I disagree, but this is subjective so I'll leave you alone;)
However I'd add that there was a review in a car magazine when they took a Land Rover, Ford Fusion, Smart and something else and drove these cars around London to see how comfortable/fast they are in the city. Their conclusion was that drivng the Smart was more stresful than any other car mainly because of the slow acceleration/shifting, noise and suspension, the only positive side was that it's easy to park.
> If browsers are freely-available, is it really a "market"?
Yes, it is just like any other market, except that most of the browsers are free. Browsers are products and the devs want to convice more users to use their browser. The initial cost isn't the only one, there's also the cost of downloading, installing, getting used and making shure your favorite sites work, etc.
>[..] letting the market forces regulate corporate behavior just isn't good enough [...]
Why not? I mean what kind of profit would a company get if they kill their customers? It's in their interest to be as safe as possible to both their customers and to others. Companies will have to spend a lot of their resources trying to comply with all the rules, regulations and requierments while producing tons of useless paperwork. Instead, these resources could have been spent directly improving the safety and customer satisfaction.
Nope, an old car doesn't mean shit like this won't happen. I already posted this in the previous story, but whatever.
My dad drove our '85 Ford Scorpio on the highway, and at some point, maybe after overtaking something, it started accelerating. Breaking slowed us down a little, but after overheating breaks became pretty useles. Of course shifting to neutral solved the problem. Turned out that the previous owner repaired the throttle cable with some wierd construction which held the two parts together and got stuck somehow, keeping the engine at a constant high power. This thing looked like this:
------==|==---- ^cable ^this is the thig that got stuck
I had a similar experience, my dad was driving our '85 Ford Scorpio and after accelerating for whatever reason the engine stuck at rather high power. The breaks slowed us down maybe 40%, there was smoke everywhere and the breaks didn't help much at all. Of course switching to neutral solved the problem. The gas pedal/engine cable was repaired by the previous owner, and it was held together by some strange construction which got stuck and held the engine at high RPMs.
------==|==----
^cable ^this is the thig that got stuck
You can set it up to use more than one finger, so if you break one you can use the one on the other hand, in case all fingers on the first hand are broken/cut off/missing.
How did this get moderated insightful? It might be true, I don't care, but it's fucking offtopic! Maybe posting Linux TCO studies in a story about arcade games would also get me karma?
> If you're not using the WiFi, take CF card out, place in card reader, insert 2nd card in camera. Carry on shooting while images are being copied to laptop/Portable Digital Storage device.
Yeah, and while you're doing this goals are being scored or there's a huge crash or whatever. Also you would need a laptop with a card reader on the table/floor and spend some more time dragging the icons around, while a WiFi laptop could be just sitting in its bag. The card swapping approach is probably ok for studio shootings though.
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Sorry, but I find this stupid. This won't solve anything. What if a company or organization wants to do business with people in more countires? Do you suggest Microsoft should register 100+ domains? Oh I see they have a lot of money so yes they should, so what about Wikipedia? Sourceforge?
.cn domain!
Laws can now be applied based on where the site is hosted, base them on domain names and you can have [insert something evil] hosted right in the US, but with
The internet is supposed to be free, if a foriegn state doesn't like what other countries are putting up, they can go fuck themselves.
Well since a band can be called The Who, I don't see why a piece of software can't be called The What.
You may want to check out some of Creative's players. I own a 60GB Zen Xtra, and never noticed any gaps. Just now I listened to Deep Purple's Made in Japan (2 CD remastered), and have to admit there is a gap between songs, however it's very short, I'd say less than 0.5 seconds.
Ermm... Unlike flying cars, we already have robots that mow your lawn, vacuum, wash windows and clean swimming pools. As they become cheaper and more useful more people will buy them.
> [...] and marketing folks really have our best interests at heart.
I'm currently taking a course in marketing, and I'd say that the main goal of marketing is to satisfy customer needs, not push ads down everyone's throat. The defenition from the book says that marketing is "a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others"
>If they'd talk straight about taxes, I'd be more willing to vote for them.
Aren't Badnarik/Campagna and the LP talking about taxes enough? They clearly say that they would lower taxes and let you keep more money, just watch/listen any of the debates with Michael, read about the LP at badnarik.org or take the shortest political quiz
well it ended up being insightful, but usually the explain-the-obvious-joke posts are moded informative.
>- looks cool
;)
I disagree, but this is subjective so I'll leave you alone
However I'd add that there was a review in a car magazine when they took a Land Rover, Ford Fusion, Smart and something else and drove these cars around London to see how comfortable/fast they are in the city. Their conclusion was that drivng the Smart was more stresful than any other car mainly because of the slow acceleration/shifting, noise and suspension, the only positive side was that it's easy to park.
Here you go, Michael Badnarik,
> If browsers are freely-available, is it really a "market"?
Yes, it is just like any other market, except that most of the browsers are free. Browsers are products and the devs want to convice more users to use their browser. The initial cost isn't the only one, there's also the cost of downloading, installing, getting used and making shure your favorite sites work, etc.
hey, you forgot a very important modifier!
This should better represent the reality:
s/Regulation/Tax/g
>[..] letting the market forces regulate corporate behavior just isn't good enough [...]
Why not? I mean what kind of profit would a company get if they kill their customers? It's in their interest to be as safe as possible to both their customers and to others. Companies will have to spend a lot of their resources trying to comply with all the rules, regulations and requierments while producing tons of useless paperwork. Instead, these resources could have been spent directly improving the safety and customer satisfaction.
Nope, an old car doesn't mean shit like this won't happen. I already posted this in the previous story, but whatever.
My dad drove our '85 Ford Scorpio on the highway, and at some point, maybe after overtaking something, it started accelerating. Breaking slowed us down a little, but after overheating breaks became pretty useles. Of course shifting to neutral solved the problem. Turned out that the previous owner repaired the throttle cable with some wierd construction which held the two parts together and got stuck somehow, keeping the engine at a constant high power. This thing looked like this:
------==|==----
^cable ^this is the thig that got stuck
Competitor? VIA CN competing with Athlon64 is like Celeron competing with Itanium. (If we ignore that they are both Intel and one isn't 64 ;)).
I had a similar experience, my dad was driving our '85 Ford Scorpio and after accelerating for whatever reason the engine stuck at rather high power. The breaks slowed us down maybe 40%, there was smoke everywhere and the breaks didn't help much at all. Of course switching to neutral solved the problem. The gas pedal/engine cable was repaired by the previous owner, and it was held together by some strange construction which got stuck and held the engine at high RPMs.
------==|==----
^cable ^this is the thig that got stuck
You can set it up to use more than one finger, so if you break one you can use the one on the other hand, in case all fingers on the first hand are broken/cut off/missing.
How did this get moderated insightful? It might be true, I don't care, but it's fucking offtopic! Maybe posting Linux TCO studies in a story about arcade games would also get me karma?
>how many machines sold with Windows end up having Linux installed?
0.5%
>Both of mine, for a start.
Ok, 0.7% then.
Or a slightly modified version:
Darth: "No Luke, I am your father!"
Luke: "You're my dad? Oh boy!"
Darth: "You know what the worst thing is?"
Luke: "What, my dad?"
Darth: "I wasn't even supposed to be there that day!"
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>Theforce.ner .net? unlike the .ner adress, it works.
shouldn't that be
Here's my suggestion:
0) Replace the camea clock with a regular one
1) Prit out the famous hello.jpg
2) Point the camera at the picture.
3) There is no profit, just fun.
Bonus points if you install surveillance on the dude between 0) and 2) and send him a printout of his face in the "bueeee" mode.
> If you're not using the WiFi, take CF card out, place in card reader, insert 2nd card in camera. Carry on shooting while images are being copied to laptop/Portable Digital Storage device.
Yeah, and while you're doing this goals are being scored or there's a huge crash or whatever. Also you would need a laptop with a card reader on the table/floor and spend some more time dragging the icons around, while a WiFi laptop could be just sitting in its bag. The card swapping approach is probably ok for studio shootings though.
with a 12" Powerbook
Or any laptop with a 802.11 card.
Oh, so that's how the goatse guy got his infamous ability...
If there were no Linux, there would be BSD.
The world would be a b^Hdifferent place.