Yes. The only exception is if the player only supports AAC in a format other than the standard MP4 container.
That's great! Right now, I don't really buy much on iTunes because I haven't been terribly thrilled with the quality, and they won't play on my e200 without recompressing to a different format. If they improve the quality and remove the DRM, I'll probably buy quite a bit more there...
Every President since the FISA passed in 1978 under Democratic President Jimmy Carter (just in case you need it, thats Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton in the "other" category)
The FISA court, being a court, can and does issue warrants. They can be after the fact, but they are still warrants. So, you are most certainly incorrect here that every president since FISA has overseen warrant-less NSA and FBI wiretaps.
Is that all it takes to get mod-points here at slashdot, saying Bush=Bad? No reasons, no explanation, nothing but "Bush. Worst. President. Ever."
What other president lied to start a war that has killed more than 3000 American troops?
What other president's administration has called the Geneva Convention "Quaint" and "Obsolete"?
What other president has actually defended torture?
What other president has overseen the arrest of innocent people (there have been "enemy combatants" released with their charges dropped), holding them for years as "enemy combatants" without any right to habeas corpus?
What other president has overseen warrant-less NSA and FBI wiretaps?
While high end color laser systems can put out acceptable output, they're not cheap. Price a Fiery some time and see what I mean.
no, not a high-end color laser. But, the low-end ones are becoming quite affordable, and put out quality at least as good, if not better, than an inkjet.
Some of us have to be able to print color documents. Printing digital photographs is one pretty common example. Business logos on letterheads is another very common example. Certain graphs are far more readable when colorized. So take your foolish "people never need to print in color" attitude and get out of here.
You would probably save money over time by getting a color laser printer instead of a color inkjet, especially in a business setting where you're printing more frequently than most home users.
Yeah, but when the printer costs $50, and a new manufacturer ink cartridge costs $45
That's why I gave up on ink-jet printers and went with a laser. It's only b/w, but I've bought toner exactly once over the past three years. When I need a color print, I send it to Kinkos. It's not the most convenient thing in the world, but I print in color so infrequently that it really doesn't make any difference to me. If I needed to print in color frequently, I'd probably buy a color laser. Ink jet is just a huge ripoff as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe, maybe not. To me it looks like currency conversion. If I take 50 euros and convert to US dollars, I don't get taxed on "earnings."
True, but that's only if you already owned the 50 Euros. If you start the game by buying L$1000, and decide you hate the game and cash it out for US Dollars, there's been no income, so you owe no tax. If, however, you start the game by buying L$1000, and you invest in some money-making opportunity, making another L$1000, and cashing it out for US Dollars, you do, in fact, have to pay taxes on the income. I would argue that, provided you never cash out your Linden dollars for real currency, you've made no real income, and don't have to pay taxes on it, but if you embark in any activity that earns you more real money than you started with, you're supposed to pay taxes on it. Whether or not you actually pay taxes is up to you, but I think the law is pretty clear here.
I know I'd spend more time on Second Life if it didn't take five minutes to download 'Buy stuff NOW!!!' graphics every time I took three steps.
I have to agree with this. I checked out Second Life awhile ago. I still have it installed, but I haven't gone back because the whole thing felt extremely slow and clumsy to me. Give me a Second Life with FPS-style speed/responsiveness, and I'll be interested...
But, if you're suggesting there's untaxable income to be made, then perhaps I've been looking at this thing completely wrong.
There is real-world income to be made, but it is most certainly taxable. If you earn Linden Dollars, and sell them for real-world dollars, you're earning income, and are subject to paying income tax on those earnings.
Oh, good, I was beginning to worry that activists were being awfully slow to appropriate a tragedy for their own agenda...I wonder when congress is going to start holding hearings on how the shootings could have been prevented by a better ratings system and more censorship in video games.
Back to focusing on trivial things, while important problems go un-addressed.
I, for one, have been wondering how long it will be before some thinkofthechildren person starts blaming violent video games or Marilyn Manson for the shooting at Virginia Tech. I haven't seen it yet, but there was a mention in the paper this morning about his handle in some game being 'Ismael', which was written on his arm. Only a matter of time, I suppose.
Don't bother with Vista at the moment. Let some other muppet sort out the pain.
One problem is for software developers, even hobbyest software developers. Without Vista, it's difficult to make sure an application works properly on Vista...so we're eventually forced to upgrade to Vista because users will have Vista, and as the number of Vista users grows, that will become more and more of a problem...
Are you kidding? It must've improved a LOT in the past 6 months or so, because last time I tried it, it was embarrassingly bad. Really, really bad. Horribly buggy, and lacking most essential features. It was, quite literally, one of the worst applications that I've tried in the past few years.
Nope, not kidding. I've been using it for a few years, actually. Unfortunately, it hasn't changed greatly in that time period. I haven't had any problems with bugs, though. The only thing I don't like about it is that tasks don't wrap on the full-calendar view. Other than that, it works fine, and syncs with the iCal format just fine. That, and that Thunderbird Lighting plugin is really just Sunbird in disguise...
There needs to be an easy way to make the calendar accessible and updatable by portable devices. There are various solutions on the way but none of them are easy to implement.
One could write a PHP/CF/ASP script that read the iCal file and spat out a WAP page in WML or XHTML-MP format...it would take some time for development, but it wouldn't really be that hard to do.
We'd LOVE to be able to provide an open calendar that can be used by staff and students alike but we won't be relying on a 3rd party to host everything. Much as I'd love to see Exchange finally gone from our campus it won't happen until we get either an appliance or software that we can host in our data center.
There's not really any particular reason that you'd have to use Google calendar to host your calendar. Sunbird and the Thunderbird/Lightning thing work with the iCal format, which you can host on any webDAV server...if you want a web-accessible component, just use a PHP Calendar that also reads iCal. That's what we do at work...Using Google just makes things a little easier.
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"I have a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it?"
Pfft...I can simulate half a mouse brain:
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Yes. The only exception is if the player only supports AAC in a format other than the standard MP4 container.
That's great! Right now, I don't really buy much on iTunes because I haven't been terribly thrilled with the quality, and they won't play on my e200 without recompressing to a different format. If they improve the quality and remove the DRM, I'll probably buy quite a bit more there...
The new EMI songs will be DRM-free AAC.
Anybody happen to know if the DRM-free AAC tracks will play on media players other than iPods (presuming they play AACs, of course)?
Crap, I modded this offtopic, but I meant to mod it funny...maybe posting will remove my mod point...
Every President since the FISA passed in 1978 under Democratic President Jimmy Carter (just in case you need it, thats Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton in the "other" category)
The FISA court, being a court, can and does issue warrants. They can be after the fact, but they are still warrants. So, you are most certainly incorrect here that every president since FISA has overseen warrant-less NSA and FBI wiretaps.
Is that all it takes to get mod-points here at slashdot, saying Bush=Bad? No reasons, no explanation, nothing but "Bush. Worst. President. Ever."
What other president lied to start a war that has killed more than 3000 American troops?
What other president's administration has called the Geneva Convention "Quaint" and "Obsolete"?
What other president has actually defended torture?
What other president has overseen the arrest of innocent people (there have been "enemy combatants" released with their charges dropped), holding them for years as "enemy combatants" without any right to habeas corpus?
What other president has overseen warrant-less NSA and FBI wiretaps?
Using the term "cultural deficit" doesn't seem quite right -- it implies that the USA has a cultural surplus.
From an economics perspective, we do...
While high end color laser systems can put out acceptable output, they're not cheap. Price a Fiery some time and see what I mean.
no, not a high-end color laser. But, the low-end ones are becoming quite affordable, and put out quality at least as good, if not better, than an inkjet.
Some of us have to be able to print color documents. Printing digital photographs is one pretty common example. Business logos on letterheads is another very common example. Certain graphs are far more readable when colorized. So take your foolish "people never need to print in color" attitude and get out of here.
You would probably save money over time by getting a color laser printer instead of a color inkjet, especially in a business setting where you're printing more frequently than most home users.
Yeah, but when the printer costs $50, and a new manufacturer ink cartridge costs $45
That's why I gave up on ink-jet printers and went with a laser. It's only b/w, but I've bought toner exactly once over the past three years. When I need a color print, I send it to Kinkos. It's not the most convenient thing in the world, but I print in color so infrequently that it really doesn't make any difference to me. If I needed to print in color frequently, I'd probably buy a color laser. Ink jet is just a huge ripoff as far as I'm concerned.
there are those who argue that income tax is unconstitutional because the 16th Amendment was never actually properly ratified.
You can find someone who will argue just about anything...
Maybe, maybe not. To me it looks like currency conversion. If I take 50 euros and convert to US dollars, I don't get taxed on "earnings."
True, but that's only if you already owned the 50 Euros. If you start the game by buying L$1000, and decide you hate the game and cash it out for US Dollars, there's been no income, so you owe no tax. If, however, you start the game by buying L$1000, and you invest in some money-making opportunity, making another L$1000, and cashing it out for US Dollars, you do, in fact, have to pay taxes on the income. I would argue that, provided you never cash out your Linden dollars for real currency, you've made no real income, and don't have to pay taxes on it, but if you embark in any activity that earns you more real money than you started with, you're supposed to pay taxes on it. Whether or not you actually pay taxes is up to you, but I think the law is pretty clear here.
It is very dark. If you continue you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
> light candle
I know I'd spend more time on Second Life if it didn't take five minutes to download 'Buy stuff NOW!!!' graphics every time I took three steps.
I have to agree with this. I checked out Second Life awhile ago. I still have it installed, but I haven't gone back because the whole thing felt extremely slow and clumsy to me. Give me a Second Life with FPS-style speed/responsiveness, and I'll be interested...
look You are in a room of user-created content. Exits are north, south, and dennis.
> go north
But, if you're suggesting there's untaxable income to be made, then perhaps I've been looking at this thing completely wrong.
There is real-world income to be made, but it is most certainly taxable. If you earn Linden Dollars, and sell them for real-world dollars, you're earning income, and are subject to paying income tax on those earnings.
laws in this country, at least in theory, represent the collective will of the people.
A fair amount of them represent the collective will of the small percentage of the people who speak the loudest and most often...
Oh, good, I was beginning to worry that activists were being awfully slow to appropriate a tragedy for their own agenda...I wonder when congress is going to start holding hearings on how the shootings could have been prevented by a better ratings system and more censorship in video games.
Back to focusing on trivial things, while important problems go un-addressed.
I, for one, have been wondering how long it will be before some thinkofthechildren person starts blaming violent video games or Marilyn Manson for the shooting at Virginia Tech. I haven't seen it yet, but there was a mention in the paper this morning about his handle in some game being 'Ismael', which was written on his arm. Only a matter of time, I suppose.
I guess that explains the hundreds of credit card applications that started showing up right as I started applying to colleges (way back when)...
Don't bother with Vista at the moment. Let some other muppet sort out the pain.
One problem is for software developers, even hobbyest software developers. Without Vista, it's difficult to make sure an application works properly on Vista...so we're eventually forced to upgrade to Vista because users will have Vista, and as the number of Vista users grows, that will become more and more of a problem...
Are you kidding? It must've improved a LOT in the past 6 months or so, because last time I tried it, it was embarrassingly bad. Really, really bad. Horribly buggy, and lacking most essential features. It was, quite literally, one of the worst applications that I've tried in the past few years.
Nope, not kidding. I've been using it for a few years, actually. Unfortunately, it hasn't changed greatly in that time period. I haven't had any problems with bugs, though. The only thing I don't like about it is that tasks don't wrap on the full-calendar view. Other than that, it works fine, and syncs with the iCal format just fine. That, and that Thunderbird Lighting plugin is really just Sunbird in disguise...
There needs to be an easy way to make the calendar accessible and updatable by portable devices. There are various solutions on the way but none of them are easy to implement.
One could write a PHP/CF/ASP script that read the iCal file and spat out a WAP page in WML or XHTML-MP format...it would take some time for development, but it wouldn't really be that hard to do.
We'd LOVE to be able to provide an open calendar that can be used by staff and students alike but we won't be relying on a 3rd party to host everything. Much as I'd love to see Exchange finally gone from our campus it won't happen until we get either an appliance or software that we can host in our data center.
There's not really any particular reason that you'd have to use Google calendar to host your calendar. Sunbird and the Thunderbird/Lightning thing work with the iCal format, which you can host on any webDAV server...if you want a web-accessible component, just use a PHP Calendar that also reads iCal. That's what we do at work...Using Google just makes things a little easier.