I'm a musician with the good ears that come with it (and studio quality headphones), I rip my music at an ABR of approx 128 kbps in OGG, and 160 in MP3. I can tell the difference side by side, but OGG's artifacting is so unobtrusive (it generally manifests itself as a slightly "airy" quality, as if the high frequencies are being slightly accentuated) that I don't notice it when I'm just listening.
Too bad you can't do this sort of thing in America anymore. Thank you Patriot act!
What about the children?!
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Sarcastic title aside... What will become of the next generation of kids who will hardly have one of their parents in their lives because they have to sell their souls to their companies just to *keep* their jobs? What about kids of single parents?
My father is a consultant, his entire work is business trips. I see him a couple hours for a day or two out of the week, then he's off to his next client. I understand that this is part of the consultant career, but what about people who have to work 12 hour days 6 days a week in one building? How do you explain that to the kids? Daddy can't be with you because he has to streamline the project flow?
They are not getting any more of my money - ever.
Remember, it's not the airline's fault you gotta be searched. It's all the gov't. If you don't want whoever's responsible for all this security rigamarole to get money, don't pay your taxes. Let me know how you manage to pull it off. =D
This is almost as bad as the time I was flying between islands in Hawaii, and they made me take off my sandals (!) and they put them in the bomb sniffer device.
Fact is, 99.99999% of flyers (not a real statistic) have absolutely no illegal intent when they fly, and all of this overblown security to get that last.00001% makes me feel exactly that much safer. It's not worth the inconvenience and the increased airfares. Thankfully, my father's a private pilot (hopefully me as well eventually), so we can just fly Cessna Airlines wherever we want to on the mainland.
They probably realize that if someone wants to take the trouble of anti-spam encoding an email, they probably won't respond to the spam anyway, so there's no point.
Oh, wait, that would assume that spammers are actually concerned about properly targeting their ads... All the breast enlargement emails I get throw that theory out the window. Oh well, carry on.
My father's a pilot, I've seen him go plane shopping. For a 30 year old 4-seater it usually costs a bit more than a new luxury car, so they'd have to all be HD plasma displays before they'd even approach the cost of a new plane.
Oh, and before you ask... A 30 year old plane is quite flyable. Heck, we have military planes that are over 50 years old and still flying into enemy air. Pilots pay much more attention to aircraft maintenance than most drivers, 'cause when your engine goes out at 7,500 feet, it's a little bit more serious than when it goes out at 0.
Now all we need is flight simulator in an IMAX dome. Now THAT would rock. Though the hardware to do that many pixels would prolly be more expensive than lessons, and an IMAX theater prolly goes for more than the $50/hr a plane usually costs.
Okay, adware is out. I wonder if there's another easily identifiable niche that tends to buy stuff from spam?
As a matter of fact, they are usually pretty good at spotting spam
Now your use of the word "usually" brings up an interesting point. Of course, there are several ways one could interpret that:
1) They can toss out the obvious spam without reading it based on subject lines, but can get sucked in by deceptive subjects 2) They can toss out most spam after opening it, but can occasionally think a spam is legit even after reading it 3) By usually, you meant, I don't want to commit to saying always, but I've never seen them think a spam was legit
In the case of #3, please ignore the following. I myself, fit #1 but I always kick myself and delete it. #2 is the interesting case, how could someone not know that an unsolicited ad in their email is in any way a legitimate use of their email account? Who would buy useless products from bad advertisements in media which require no active participation?
Answer: The same people who buy stuff from telemarketers and infomercials of course! So to get rid of spam, the thing to do is to put the Sen. Hatch Computer Nuker in some seemingly useful piece of software, and use telemarketing and infomercials to sell it to our target niche. Spam would probably be more effective, but that's just contributing to the problem.
A less extreme way would be to have the program just filter out all SMTP, POP3 and IMAP packets, and block hotmail.com and other webmail sites.
Spammers will just go deeper underground and learn to hide themselves increasingly better, and move to countries with lax attitudes on spam.
The only solution is to make it unprofitable. I suggest planting whatever program Sen. Hatch plans on using for destroying computers into all the adware on the internet, I'm guessing the people who download that are the same people who actually buy stuff from spam.
Get in a car wreck, heh...
"Hey officer, I saw the whole thing, the car crashed, that stuff in the back spilled on him, and now he's over there...And there...And there..."
I was on the fog crew for a show once, and we had a huge freezer full of dry ice to play with... Muwhahahahaha. Many of the things you can do with LN2 can also be done with dry ice, though dry ice is pretty hot compared to liquid nitrogen, plus of course, the obvious difference that it's solid instead of liquid. My favorite trick was at one point in the show someone came to collect some pellets to put in a pot that was supposed to look like it was burning incense... I just reached into the pellet bag and grabbed the pellets and gave them to her. If you kinda juggle them in your hands you can actually keep yourself from getting burnt.
We also put pellets in soda, and after we drank the slushies, filled the soda bottles with water, inhaled the vapors (note: Carbon Dioxide is a waste gas of the body, and breathing it in will keep oxygen from entering your body! We had a guy get pretty light-headed after a session of this), and watched as a 7 cm^3 pellet could freeze 100 mL of room temperature water, that's how cold they are.
If you have a drink that's lost its fizz, you can actually carbonate it by putting in dry ice, because carbonation is actually carbon dioxide (which dry ice is the frozen form of) dissolved in the liquid. If you want it to stay liquid, though, you should only put in small flakes at a time, as large pellets will cause the drink to freeze around the pellet, or turn into a slushie.
It's Watts/Amps that kill, *not* Volts. A typical static electricity shock is a couple thousand V. Heck, people have been struck by lightning and lived. Volts are simply the "potential" for the electricity to do work, watts/amps are how much work it's actually doing.
IANA Electrician/Physicist, so excuse me if I butchered it.
115 volt outlets are already in cars
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I have a Pontiac Vibe, and it has a (non-grounded) 115 volt outlet in the dashboard. Just push a button to turn it on, plug in and voila. Now all I need is a GPS I can plug into my laptop and some map software.
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Well, Doc Brown had to go all the way to 2015 to get one...
Heck yeah. I mean, every time I turn around and hear about the next cookie-cutter reality show I want to punch someone. This is why I don't watch TV. The sad part is that I'm looking for a career in television. =P Hopefully in the good television like the Sci-Fi Channel.
Where do you get a Piper Cherokee for $30k? Maybe used, but from what I've seen of airplane pricing (IANA pilot, but my dad is), all $30k will get you is a good share of a plane at a flight club.
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I'm a musician with the good ears that come with it (and studio quality headphones), I rip my music at an ABR of approx 128 kbps in OGG, and 160 in MP3. I can tell the difference side by side, but OGG's artifacting is so unobtrusive (it generally manifests itself as a slightly "airy" quality, as if the high frequencies are being slightly accentuated) that I don't notice it when I'm just listening.
It looks like his "Real Character" wasn't the only thing he wrote in code.
Wait, people *actually* wrote like that?
Too bad you can't do this sort of thing in America anymore. Thank you Patriot act!
Sarcastic title aside... What will become of the next generation of kids who will hardly have one of their parents in their lives because they have to sell their souls to their companies just to *keep* their jobs? What about kids of single parents?
My father is a consultant, his entire work is business trips. I see him a couple hours for a day or two out of the week, then he's off to his next client. I understand that this is part of the consultant career, but what about people who have to work 12 hour days 6 days a week in one building? How do you explain that to the kids? Daddy can't be with you because he has to streamline the project flow?
Odds that I actually know a large-breasted female who knows how to set up a webcam: I'm posting on Slashdot, you figure it out.
Number of years I've owned a camera I could use for videoconferencing: three years
Number of times I've actually used it for videoconferencing: 0. Nada. Zilch.
Could someone please explain to me why I would want to videoconference when I could just use GAIM and not rape my internet connection?
They are not getting any more of my money - ever. Remember, it's not the airline's fault you gotta be searched. It's all the gov't. If you don't want whoever's responsible for all this security rigamarole to get money, don't pay your taxes. Let me know how you manage to pull it off. =D
This is almost as bad as the time I was flying between islands in Hawaii, and they made me take off my sandals (!) and they put them in the bomb sniffer device.
.00001% makes me feel exactly that much safer. It's not worth the inconvenience and the increased airfares. Thankfully, my father's a private pilot (hopefully me as well eventually), so we can just fly Cessna Airlines wherever we want to on the mainland.
Fact is, 99.99999% of flyers (not a real statistic) have absolutely no illegal intent when they fly, and all of this overblown security to get that last
They probably realize that if someone wants to take the trouble of anti-spam encoding an email, they probably won't respond to the spam anyway, so there's no point.
Oh, wait, that would assume that spammers are actually concerned about properly targeting their ads... All the breast enlargement emails I get throw that theory out the window. Oh well, carry on.
My father's a pilot, I've seen him go plane shopping. For a 30 year old 4-seater it usually costs a bit more than a new luxury car, so they'd have to all be HD plasma displays before they'd even approach the cost of a new plane. Oh, and before you ask... A 30 year old plane is quite flyable. Heck, we have military planes that are over 50 years old and still flying into enemy air. Pilots pay much more attention to aircraft maintenance than most drivers, 'cause when your engine goes out at 7,500 feet, it's a little bit more serious than when it goes out at 0.
Now all we need is flight simulator in an IMAX dome. Now THAT would rock. Though the hardware to do that many pixels would prolly be more expensive than lessons, and an IMAX theater prolly goes for more than the $50/hr a plane usually costs.
Okay, adware is out. I wonder if there's another easily identifiable niche that tends to buy stuff from spam?
As a matter of fact, they are usually pretty good at spotting spam
Now your use of the word "usually" brings up an interesting point. Of course, there are several ways one could interpret that:
1) They can toss out the obvious spam without reading it based on subject lines, but can get sucked in by deceptive subjects
2) They can toss out most spam after opening it, but can occasionally think a spam is legit even after reading it
3) By usually, you meant, I don't want to commit to saying always, but I've never seen them think a spam was legit
In the case of #3, please ignore the following. I myself, fit #1 but I always kick myself and delete it. #2 is the interesting case, how could someone not know that an unsolicited ad in their email is in any way a legitimate use of their email account? Who would buy useless products from bad advertisements in media which require no active participation?
Answer: The same people who buy stuff from telemarketers and infomercials of course! So to get rid of spam, the thing to do is to put the Sen. Hatch Computer Nuker in some seemingly useful piece of software, and use telemarketing and infomercials to sell it to our target niche. Spam would probably be more effective, but that's just contributing to the problem.
A less extreme way would be to have the program just filter out all SMTP, POP3 and IMAP packets, and block hotmail.com and other webmail sites.
{sigh} One can dream...
Spammers will just go deeper underground and learn to hide themselves increasingly better, and move to countries with lax attitudes on spam.
The only solution is to make it unprofitable. I suggest planting whatever program Sen. Hatch plans on using for destroying computers into all the adware on the internet, I'm guessing the people who download that are the same people who actually buy stuff from spam.
Well, if you can patent one-click purchasing, you can patent just about anything.
Get in a car wreck, heh... "Hey officer, I saw the whole thing, the car crashed, that stuff in the back spilled on him, and now he's over there...And there...And there..."
I was on the fog crew for a show once, and we had a huge freezer full of dry ice to play with... Muwhahahahaha. Many of the things you can do with LN2 can also be done with dry ice, though dry ice is pretty hot compared to liquid nitrogen, plus of course, the obvious difference that it's solid instead of liquid. My favorite trick was at one point in the show someone came to collect some pellets to put in a pot that was supposed to look like it was burning incense... I just reached into the pellet bag and grabbed the pellets and gave them to her. If you kinda juggle them in your hands you can actually keep yourself from getting burnt. We also put pellets in soda, and after we drank the slushies, filled the soda bottles with water, inhaled the vapors (note: Carbon Dioxide is a waste gas of the body, and breathing it in will keep oxygen from entering your body! We had a guy get pretty light-headed after a session of this), and watched as a 7 cm^3 pellet could freeze 100 mL of room temperature water, that's how cold they are. If you have a drink that's lost its fizz, you can actually carbonate it by putting in dry ice, because carbonation is actually carbon dioxide (which dry ice is the frozen form of) dissolved in the liquid. If you want it to stay liquid, though, you should only put in small flakes at a time, as large pellets will cause the drink to freeze around the pellet, or turn into a slushie.
Frog bomb!
It's Watts/Amps that kill, *not* Volts. A typical static electricity shock is a couple thousand V. Heck, people have been struck by lightning and lived. Volts are simply the "potential" for the electricity to do work, watts/amps are how much work it's actually doing. IANA Electrician/Physicist, so excuse me if I butchered it.
I have a Pontiac Vibe, and it has a (non-grounded) 115 volt outlet in the dashboard. Just push a button to turn it on, plug in and voila. Now all I need is a GPS I can plug into my laptop and some map software.
Well, Doc Brown had to go all the way to 2015 to get one...
Heck yeah. I mean, every time I turn around and hear about the next cookie-cutter reality show I want to punch someone. This is why I don't watch TV. The sad part is that I'm looking for a career in television. =P Hopefully in the good television like the Sci-Fi Channel.
Where do you get a Piper Cherokee for $30k? Maybe used, but from what I've seen of airplane pricing (IANA pilot, but my dad is), all $30k will get you is a good share of a plane at a flight club.
But unfortunately, useless for me, as my home network is only 10 mbps.
1) Hire teenage programmers who will put out 5,000 lines of code every 60 hour week
2) Sell resulting error-laden bloatware
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
Hopefully, by 2.6 SCO will actually TELL US what code got copied, so we can change the comments and variable names so it doesn't match anymore...