My bad. I *do* use it as a music management system, but then again, I've configured it that way. Essentially, I've taken my apple and given it a relatively resistant outside skin, colored orange, and injected it with a lot of citric acid and other tasty treats.
Err, okay then. Allow me to interject foobar2000 into your music description. By default, it is about 300k. Uses about 8mb of memory tops, at any moment in time. Is more minimal than anything apple has ever done (by default), but allows you to add pretty much whatever the hell you want with plugins.
There's no reason extensible needs to imply bloated-monster-application-of-firey-fuckin'-doom
Doesn't a contract sort of require my signature on it? Or at least written rules and regulations before I purchase the ticket (not after)? You can't add stipulations to my purchase after I've already made the payment, you know, no matter how much you'd like to. If you leave it open ended like that, all you have to do is sell someone a donut and say "also, you have to let me drive your car around for the day. Otherwise, you can't go in."
Actually, I think they stopped it because so many hardcore fans really loathed it. That was my understanding of them halting it, at any rate.
And you're right; it's a personal preference thing. I prefer to watch it at home, after it has been PVRed, if only because then I can do all the fast forwarding through commercials and rewinding that I could ever want. A lot of times, the first time I witness something in a super fast paced game like hockey, I'm screaming "HOLY SHIT, HE JUST FOULED HIM WTF, WTF REF, WTF!" Only to watch it again a few times and I'm like "...hrm. okay. my bad. it just *looked* bad."
Usually on TV, they replay it for you anyway, but sometimes they don't. It's always nice to have that capability for themselves.
On hockey nights, I generally have between 3-5 people over to my tiny little 864 sq. foot house. We alternate who brings the food and who brings the beer and we just have an all round good time. Some nights people miss out (and next year, the number will probably drop off a bit, as one of the couples in question have a demonspawn due in december), but there's almost always a group of people watching it. It's always great times, and I'm always a bit late to work the next day. But it's so worth it.
I still enjoy football, but after finally taking the time to watch a game or two of hockey (it's alot easier when your local team is the Penguins and you have some pretty sublime offensive talent to fall for), it's not even remotely close to being my favorite sport anymore. I'll still watch, but no longer is it my primary religion. Now I am, truly, a hockey fanatic. I've even managed to blow out one disk in my lower back playing pickups at the local rink, and after surgery on that, managed to rupture *another* disk playing street hockey. But I don't regret any of it. I can't say the same about tearing my ACL in football. I regret that almost every single day. But I digress.
I actually disagree, but that's because I'm a bastard and have a 50" TV, where it is pretty much impossible to NOT see the puck. Aside from the atmosphere at arenas, I'd rather watch a Pens game on TV almost any day rather than catch it at the arena. I say "almost any day" because I can't stand versus or NBC, so when they're showing it, I'd rather be at the Igloo.
It's probably the same reason the submarines don't launch nuclear missiles at other submarines. It seems a bit silly to do that, to me, when you have torpedos a-plenty on board.
And seriously, when you have that many tie fighters around you and that many goddam turbo lasers emplaced on the surface of your death star, do you really think you need to use the damn superlaser on them? Seriously?
It's probably why battleships didn't use their main guns against japanese zeroes flying against them. That's what AA is for.
I did that for a very long time, and I stopped purchasing from more than a few sites as a result. However, after a year or two of use, I started to get a handle on who the good guys were, and who the bad guys were. And I started getting those pesky "try everything on a domain" spam sessions where everything from asweriyuherkij2350892wer@domain.tld got through to cxeryhwq3583adf23@domain.tld. Needless to say, that broke my catch all method, which was somewhat similar to a honeypot, but by then i already had a list of trustable online merchants that would give me deals so close to the market minimum that, even if i sometimes overpaid by 2$, at least i knew my email address was safe. I created manual forwards for each of these services, just in case their methods changed overtime, but the catch-all, for me at any rate, has gone the way of the dodo.
Still, when I do need to purchase something from a dealer I may not trust, I create a forward for it and go that way. It helps keep me safe.
I love their function, I despise their implementation.
Just looking at them for an extended period of time gives me the gibblies and I can't stop until i/flee.
All the same, when I do see a spider in a non-important place in my house, I just do my best to not look at it and vacate the room as soon as possible. I know they do a good job, I just wish I never had to be confronted by their existence.
What? How in the hell have you had it crash? It has been in (almost total) constant use for me for three solid years and has never been the result of a crash once. This is in Windows XP *and* Ubuntu (SageTV and MythTV, respectively).
Either your particular card is somehow faulty, or you're trying to run it on a blender. There's no reason for it to crash even once. My old roommate had one as well and he never had a crash that I noticed, ever (his was the one hooked up to the primary TV in the apartment, so I would have noticed it).
What is your line signal like? If I were you, I'd scope out the router diagnostics and see if everything falls within the generally accepted bounds of your ISP's configuration. I just redid the wiring in my house, and had next to no faith in my coax cutting, stripping, and whatnot, and wanted to see if I did okay, so I compared the before and after. It was almost the exact same as when the tech did it (and, in my area, Atlantic Broadband has really damn good technicians who are ridiculously anal retentive about line signal), so I guess I did a relatively good job. It's possible your cable connection is tweaking out because of some crazy power levels or something. I have a motorola surfboard, so going to 192.168.100.1 will hook me up with the modem configuration, and then clicking status gives me all the goods. You can probably google for Comcast accepted parameters, and there are some sites out there now who tell you what is generally accepted and not accepted to give you a rough idea if you can't find anything Comcast specific.
That's about all I can tell you, and hopefully it helps, but I'm so much so absolutely not a cable tech that I wouldn't bet on it, not even a penny.
Well, I admittedly didn't go to the dealership, but I had gone to the website and couldn't find a single damn TDI in sight.
I did find a Jetta today, but I really hated my last Jetta (2002) and don't want to go that route again. I'd make an exception for a Golf and/or Rabbit, but yeah...
Unfortunately, I can't find a single damn TDI over here. I've been searching on cars.com and autotrader.com for vehicles in our area, and I can't find one at all under KBB, which means my credit union surely isn't going to pay 100% of the cost for it.
Still, I'm holding onto it until the new Prius' come out and then I'll trade it in. I really love the car, but after the last speeding ticket, I'm trying not to drive fast, which took almost all of the fun of owning a manual v6 2.8 litre vehicle. Now it's just all round depressing to me:(
Probably because, in some vehicles, it is just downright depressing.
Take my '01 Audi A4 Quattro v6. On average, I get approximately 18 mpg. On the highway, on a straight trip, using cruise control and driving at a relatively sedate 70mph, I get a spectacular 24.3 mpg. Honestly, it's a kick right in the mean bean machine.
It's even worse when you don't turn average on, and you have to go up a steep hill at a low speed. No one wants to see "5.6mpg" flash up on your screen, even if it is only for a few seconds.
Okay, with all that said, I do drive a lot more efficiently than I did when I first got the car, and was averaging about 14mpg on my way to work (which, as I somewhat alluded to earlier, I get 18). But seriously, 18 is as good as it gets? Seriously, in this case, "fuck" is the only word that applies. Or maybe "god fucking dammit", but it's still going with the same general theme.
I use cable 24/7 and I've never experienced this. And believe me, if my latency were spiking from 40ms to 30000ms while I were gaming, or even checking webpages, I'd fucking notice it. My thoughts are cable in your area just flat out sucks. In mine, it's absolutely divine. DSL, on the other hand, is out for about 45 minutes to an hour every 2 or 3 days for my neighbors on either side of me. Pure silliness.
You'll get it when they decide you need it, which is directly keyed off how much it would cost them to put it in and how much they can expect to make back from you in profit.
Uhm, just going by the other Slashdot article, there's no mention of "stealing" a myspace page. The guy asked for $49,000+, they said "uhm, no, that's okay, we'll start a new one", and that was that. That isn't theft. That's declining to agree to a deal they felt wasn't worth it. Mayhaps things have changed since then, but there's a big fucking difference between not buying what someone is offering and then finding an alternative, and just taking it from him. By that logic, every time I decline to purchase an RIAA backed artist and instead buy from an Indie band, I'm stealing from the afore mentioned RIAA artist. Seems kinda silly, doesn't it?
I would imagine its proximity to the sun plays a part in it; hot objects in cooler areas cool off faster than hot objects in warmer areas, after all. It's true that mercury is considerably smaller than mars, but its proximity to the sun, and all of its heat, is considerably closer than mars is. After all, the surface temperature of Mercury is, what, 400 some degrees when facing the sun?
Even if this is true, however, intuitively speaking, it kinda doesn't seem like it would be enough to keep the core active. Perhaps the composition of the planet plays a part? I seem to remember Mercury having a very high concentration of metals, for example, whereas Mars has a smaller concentration (percentage wise). Would this have anything to do with it?
Actually, I used both ends of the spectrum (in terms of quality), while insisting that both still had a relatively large production cost. It's true that LoTR absolutely *did* recoup it's production cost, but how many studios would attempt that if they felt they only had 17 years to cash in instead of 120 or whatever the hell it is now? New Line might not even exist if the term were different (though, then again, they very well *could* exist, and make even more awesome movies because of it - who knows?)
Sigh.
Fallible = Infallible
We need point no further than their acceptance of slavery (at least tacitly) in one or the other Articles in the Constitution as evidence of this.
To Further Expound:
When I referred to "the best, market-based way of compensating", the only other alternative I can think of that could even approach a market-based way of compensation would be Government subsidization. This has flaws of its own (such as who defines what work is worth pursuing or compensating artists and other thinkers for, etc, etc), and, in my opinion, is nowhere near as good a solution as the current short term method of content reproduction and distribution monopolization. If you (or anyone else) has any other ideas, please, by all means, enlighten me.
I wasn't even actually contradicting him. I felt bad about it. He merely stated the law, as it currently stands, and why it was illegal. There is nothing I can say that can contradict his points. Instead, I argued against the law, not as a "this is an illegal law" (as impossible as that may sound, it sometimes happens), but as a "we need to change this law, for it is clearly out of bounds".
I can't argue that the founding fathers are fallible. We need point no further than their acceptance of slavery (at least tacitly) in one or the other Articles in the Constitution.
However, I did argue as to why this "right" had a shelf-life. I explained how the creation of intellectual *goods*, for lack of a better term, bettered society as a whole, in allowing future generations the ability to stand upon the shoulders of giants, so to speak. However, these giants may not have even created these "intellectual goods" if they did not have the opportunity to make money from them - or at least recoup the costs of developing them. As such, a short term monopoly is probably the best, market-based way of compensating, whether in part, in whole, or in excess, the creator for their time and effort spent on the subject. However, without the ability to use these same intellectual goods in a reasonable time frame, the intellectual community, as a whole, stagnates - or at least is more stagnate than it would be were these intellectual goods released in an earlier time. Clearly, a balance must be struck between the ability of rewarding (or compensating to some degree) the thinker or artist, and the benefit of society as a whole when it is then able to use these intellectual goods in their own pursuits. Perhaps I did not make this clear enough in my rambling diatribe (for which I apologize), but a line must be drawn between pure economic spoils and intellectual communism. A line in which both the producer is potentially paid for their work, and the intellectual or artistic community as a whole can build upon and flourish with relative impunity.
As far as calling it "right" vs. Right, I cannot in good conscience describe something that runs out (regardless of deeds) as being a solid, immutable Right (such as the Right to Assembly or the Right to Bear Arms). It acts as a Right, but since it runs out, it is a lesser "right". If you want to get nerdy, think of it as the difference between a Belt of Dexterity that gives you +3 to Dex vs. a Potion of Cat's Grace (or greater potion or whatever the hell would also give you +3 to Dex). They both do the same, but eventually the potion runs out. As such, you cannot really put it on the same level as the constant stat increase (or, in our specific case, as an immutable Right). It may act the same in the short term, but it runs out, at some point, and thus is not as good (though, when in effect, it is clearly as... righteous... as a Right).
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My bad. I *do* use it as a music management system, but then again, I've configured it that way. Essentially, I've taken my apple and given it a relatively resistant outside skin, colored orange, and injected it with a lot of citric acid and other tasty treats.
But it's still not the same, I admit it.
Err, okay then. Allow me to interject foobar2000 into your music description. By default, it is about 300k. Uses about 8mb of memory tops, at any moment in time. Is more minimal than anything apple has ever done (by default), but allows you to add pretty much whatever the hell you want with plugins.
There's no reason extensible needs to imply bloated-monster-application-of-firey-fuckin'-doom
Doesn't a contract sort of require my signature on it? Or at least written rules and regulations before I purchase the ticket (not after)? You can't add stipulations to my purchase after I've already made the payment, you know, no matter how much you'd like to. If you leave it open ended like that, all you have to do is sell someone a donut and say "also, you have to let me drive your car around for the day. Otherwise, you can't go in."
Actually, I think they stopped it because so many hardcore fans really loathed it. That was my understanding of them halting it, at any rate.
And you're right; it's a personal preference thing. I prefer to watch it at home, after it has been PVRed, if only because then I can do all the fast forwarding through commercials and rewinding that I could ever want. A lot of times, the first time I witness something in a super fast paced game like hockey, I'm screaming "HOLY SHIT, HE JUST FOULED HIM WTF, WTF REF, WTF!" Only to watch it again a few times and I'm like "...hrm. okay. my bad. it just *looked* bad."
Usually on TV, they replay it for you anyway, but sometimes they don't. It's always nice to have that capability for themselves.
On hockey nights, I generally have between 3-5 people over to my tiny little 864 sq. foot house. We alternate who brings the food and who brings the beer and we just have an all round good time. Some nights people miss out (and next year, the number will probably drop off a bit, as one of the couples in question have a demonspawn due in december), but there's almost always a group of people watching it. It's always great times, and I'm always a bit late to work the next day. But it's so worth it.
I still enjoy football, but after finally taking the time to watch a game or two of hockey (it's alot easier when your local team is the Penguins and you have some pretty sublime offensive talent to fall for), it's not even remotely close to being my favorite sport anymore. I'll still watch, but no longer is it my primary religion. Now I am, truly, a hockey fanatic. I've even managed to blow out one disk in my lower back playing pickups at the local rink, and after surgery on that, managed to rupture *another* disk playing street hockey. But I don't regret any of it. I can't say the same about tearing my ACL in football. I regret that almost every single day. But I digress.
I actually disagree, but that's because I'm a bastard and have a 50" TV, where it is pretty much impossible to NOT see the puck. Aside from the atmosphere at arenas, I'd rather watch a Pens game on TV almost any day rather than catch it at the arena. I say "almost any day" because I can't stand versus or NBC, so when they're showing it, I'd rather be at the Igloo.
Then put it on the dark side of the moon? That should calm the fears of most moderately scientifically enlightened countries...
It's probably the same reason the submarines don't launch nuclear missiles at other submarines. It seems a bit silly to do that, to me, when you have torpedos a-plenty on board.
And seriously, when you have that many tie fighters around you and that many goddam turbo lasers emplaced on the surface of your death star, do you really think you need to use the damn superlaser on them? Seriously?
It's probably why battleships didn't use their main guns against japanese zeroes flying against them. That's what AA is for.
I did that for a very long time, and I stopped purchasing from more than a few sites as a result. However, after a year or two of use, I started to get a handle on who the good guys were, and who the bad guys were. And I started getting those pesky "try everything on a domain" spam sessions where everything from asweriyuherkij2350892wer@domain.tld got through to cxeryhwq3583adf23@domain.tld. Needless to say, that broke my catch all method, which was somewhat similar to a honeypot, but by then i already had a list of trustable online merchants that would give me deals so close to the market minimum that, even if i sometimes overpaid by 2$, at least i knew my email address was safe. I created manual forwards for each of these services, just in case their methods changed overtime, but the catch-all, for me at any rate, has gone the way of the dodo. Still, when I do need to purchase something from a dealer I may not trust, I create a forward for it and go that way. It helps keep me safe.
I love their function, I despise their implementation.
/flee.
Just looking at them for an extended period of time gives me the gibblies and I can't stop until i
All the same, when I do see a spider in a non-important place in my house, I just do my best to not look at it and vacate the room as soon as possible. I know they do a good job, I just wish I never had to be confronted by their existence.
That's why I'm so sneaky. I muck up the system by telling the truth. They never see it coming, mwahahahahahahahaha!
Do genies actually come in flocks???
Oh, and the old "it doesn't work for me thus it sucks totally LOLOLOL!" is any better? Fucking moron.
What? How in the hell have you had it crash? It has been in (almost total) constant use for me for three solid years and has never been the result of a crash once. This is in Windows XP *and* Ubuntu (SageTV and MythTV, respectively).
Either your particular card is somehow faulty, or you're trying to run it on a blender. There's no reason for it to crash even once. My old roommate had one as well and he never had a crash that I noticed, ever (his was the one hooked up to the primary TV in the apartment, so I would have noticed it).
What is your line signal like? If I were you, I'd scope out the router diagnostics and see if everything falls within the generally accepted bounds of your ISP's configuration. I just redid the wiring in my house, and had next to no faith in my coax cutting, stripping, and whatnot, and wanted to see if I did okay, so I compared the before and after. It was almost the exact same as when the tech did it (and, in my area, Atlantic Broadband has really damn good technicians who are ridiculously anal retentive about line signal), so I guess I did a relatively good job. It's possible your cable connection is tweaking out because of some crazy power levels or something. I have a motorola surfboard, so going to 192.168.100.1 will hook me up with the modem configuration, and then clicking status gives me all the goods. You can probably google for Comcast accepted parameters, and there are some sites out there now who tell you what is generally accepted and not accepted to give you a rough idea if you can't find anything Comcast specific.
That's about all I can tell you, and hopefully it helps, but I'm so much so absolutely not a cable tech that I wouldn't bet on it, not even a penny.
Well, I admittedly didn't go to the dealership, but I had gone to the website and couldn't find a single damn TDI in sight.
I did find a Jetta today, but I really hated my last Jetta (2002) and don't want to go that route again. I'd make an exception for a Golf and/or Rabbit, but yeah...
Unfortunately, I can't find a single damn TDI over here. I've been searching on cars.com and autotrader.com for vehicles in our area, and I can't find one at all under KBB, which means my credit union surely isn't going to pay 100% of the cost for it.
:(
Still, I'm holding onto it until the new Prius' come out and then I'll trade it in. I really love the car, but after the last speeding ticket, I'm trying not to drive fast, which took almost all of the fun of owning a manual v6 2.8 litre vehicle. Now it's just all round depressing to me
Probably because, in some vehicles, it is just downright depressing.
Take my '01 Audi A4 Quattro v6. On average, I get approximately 18 mpg. On the highway, on a straight trip, using cruise control and driving at a relatively sedate 70mph, I get a spectacular 24.3 mpg. Honestly, it's a kick right in the mean bean machine.
It's even worse when you don't turn average on, and you have to go up a steep hill at a low speed. No one wants to see "5.6mpg" flash up on your screen, even if it is only for a few seconds.
Okay, with all that said, I do drive a lot more efficiently than I did when I first got the car, and was averaging about 14mpg on my way to work (which, as I somewhat alluded to earlier, I get 18). But seriously, 18 is as good as it gets? Seriously, in this case, "fuck" is the only word that applies. Or maybe "god fucking dammit", but it's still going with the same general theme.
I use cable 24/7 and I've never experienced this. And believe me, if my latency were spiking from 40ms to 30000ms while I were gaming, or even checking webpages, I'd fucking notice it. My thoughts are cable in your area just flat out sucks. In mine, it's absolutely divine. DSL, on the other hand, is out for about 45 minutes to an hour every 2 or 3 days for my neighbors on either side of me. Pure silliness.
That's because my cat is a god damned ninja. \m/ (-_-) \m/
You'll get it when they decide you need it, which is directly keyed off how much it would cost them to put it in and how much they can expect to make back from you in profit.
:(
Which, for me, equates to roughly "never".
Uhm, just going by the other Slashdot article, there's no mention of "stealing" a myspace page. The guy asked for $49,000+, they said "uhm, no, that's okay, we'll start a new one", and that was that. That isn't theft. That's declining to agree to a deal they felt wasn't worth it. Mayhaps things have changed since then, but there's a big fucking difference between not buying what someone is offering and then finding an alternative, and just taking it from him. By that logic, every time I decline to purchase an RIAA backed artist and instead buy from an Indie band, I'm stealing from the afore mentioned RIAA artist. Seems kinda silly, doesn't it?
I would imagine its proximity to the sun plays a part in it; hot objects in cooler areas cool off faster than hot objects in warmer areas, after all. It's true that mercury is considerably smaller than mars, but its proximity to the sun, and all of its heat, is considerably closer than mars is. After all, the surface temperature of Mercury is, what, 400 some degrees when facing the sun?
Even if this is true, however, intuitively speaking, it kinda doesn't seem like it would be enough to keep the core active. Perhaps the composition of the planet plays a part? I seem to remember Mercury having a very high concentration of metals, for example, whereas Mars has a smaller concentration (percentage wise). Would this have anything to do with it?
Actually, I used both ends of the spectrum (in terms of quality), while insisting that both still had a relatively large production cost. It's true that LoTR absolutely *did* recoup it's production cost, but how many studios would attempt that if they felt they only had 17 years to cash in instead of 120 or whatever the hell it is now? New Line might not even exist if the term were different (though, then again, they very well *could* exist, and make even more awesome movies because of it - who knows?)
Sigh. Fallible = Infallible We need point no further than their acceptance of slavery (at least tacitly) in one or the other Articles in the Constitution as evidence of this. To Further Expound: When I referred to "the best, market-based way of compensating", the only other alternative I can think of that could even approach a market-based way of compensation would be Government subsidization. This has flaws of its own (such as who defines what work is worth pursuing or compensating artists and other thinkers for, etc, etc), and, in my opinion, is nowhere near as good a solution as the current short term method of content reproduction and distribution monopolization. If you (or anyone else) has any other ideas, please, by all means, enlighten me.
I wasn't even actually contradicting him. I felt bad about it. He merely stated the law, as it currently stands, and why it was illegal. There is nothing I can say that can contradict his points. Instead, I argued against the law, not as a "this is an illegal law" (as impossible as that may sound, it sometimes happens), but as a "we need to change this law, for it is clearly out of bounds".
... righteous ... as a Right).
I can't argue that the founding fathers are fallible. We need point no further than their acceptance of slavery (at least tacitly) in one or the other Articles in the Constitution.
However, I did argue as to why this "right" had a shelf-life. I explained how the creation of intellectual *goods*, for lack of a better term, bettered society as a whole, in allowing future generations the ability to stand upon the shoulders of giants, so to speak. However, these giants may not have even created these "intellectual goods" if they did not have the opportunity to make money from them - or at least recoup the costs of developing them. As such, a short term monopoly is probably the best, market-based way of compensating, whether in part, in whole, or in excess, the creator for their time and effort spent on the subject. However, without the ability to use these same intellectual goods in a reasonable time frame, the intellectual community, as a whole, stagnates - or at least is more stagnate than it would be were these intellectual goods released in an earlier time. Clearly, a balance must be struck between the ability of rewarding (or compensating to some degree) the thinker or artist, and the benefit of society as a whole when it is then able to use these intellectual goods in their own pursuits. Perhaps I did not make this clear enough in my rambling diatribe (for which I apologize), but a line must be drawn between pure economic spoils and intellectual communism. A line in which both the producer is potentially paid for their work, and the intellectual or artistic community as a whole can build upon and flourish with relative impunity.
As far as calling it "right" vs. Right, I cannot in good conscience describe something that runs out (regardless of deeds) as being a solid, immutable Right (such as the Right to Assembly or the Right to Bear Arms). It acts as a Right, but since it runs out, it is a lesser "right". If you want to get nerdy, think of it as the difference between a Belt of Dexterity that gives you +3 to Dex vs. a Potion of Cat's Grace (or greater potion or whatever the hell would also give you +3 to Dex). They both do the same, but eventually the potion runs out. As such, you cannot really put it on the same level as the constant stat increase (or, in our specific case, as an immutable Right). It may act the same in the short term, but it runs out, at some point, and thus is not as good (though, when in effect, it is clearly as