Thank you very much for pointing that out. What's happening now is that the Democrats are trying to establish a base. I saw a poll on tv tonight and it said that 47% (give or take) americans consider themselves "in the middle". I forget the numbers exactly, but more of the remainder consider themselves conservative than liberal. Democrats realize that to win the 2008 election, they have to appeal to these people and stop the "angry liberal" strategy that lost them the 2000 and 2004 elections. (Bush won the 2000 recount done by the press so don't even bring that up) This is also why Hillary Clinton is going after video games.
Let's face it, we're headed for another year and a half of this crap.
You can discuss it all you want. But it's been done so many times on slashdot what's the point? Thousands of bible thumpers complained about Howard Stern and it led to him quitting. Why? Because they acted. While others were complaining amongst themselves, free speech got trampled on and laws like this got enacted. So the point I was trying to make was complain all you want here, but back it up with action so the people elected to power hear it.
I never said I was against it. I said it was not bad or imoral. You slashdot knee-jerk liberals are killing me. And don't say that to me, complain to the 100,000 bible thumpers who write letters complaining to the FCC. I'm certainly not one of them.
Did you see the video? "Implying" is treating it lightly. It's not like someone said "hey let's have a teenage orgy" It was a little more graphic than that. I'm not saying it was bad or imoral, but it was a little graphic for the time and channel.
on Bill O'Reilly. The issue here is not that "sex is evil" but that this scene was a violation of the stated rules. This was shown in primetime and not after 10PM. Based on the time of day, there are rules for public broadcasters. So this can turn into a big argument, but those are the rules. If you don't like the rules, then contact your congressman or congresswoman.
And btw, I love when the southpark movie is shown after 1:30 PM occasionally. There's nothing like hearing, "you butt fucking uncle fucker" to celebrate our nation's tolerance on "foul" language.
That's personal preference I guess. I listen to my music using my computer and when I want song lyrics I'm usually at my computer anyway. I use adblock so I don't really have to deal with those obtrusive ads. And I don't care if a site copies all the lyrics off another site as long as it's correct. Another cool thing is if I don't know the artist or song name but a few words from the lyrics, I can usually find the song in a few seconds with google. That's a lot faster than flipping through CDs.
I agree and also if I find a retailer that seems to have some sort of Google endorsement, I have a "no shananagan" expectation. I'm not saying that Google has to warrent every product sold through these stores, but they can't simply act as a middle man and use their name to woo customers but not offer anything in return to the customers. I'm a little concerned Google is getting itself into something with a lot of competition. Not to say there weren't search engines before and after Google, but searching is something they can do inhouse and focus on. This idea sounds like they might be putting the customer service and complaints on to some fly-by-night company and their image may suffer if bad stores simply use this to make a quick buck.
Although, I'm just speculating of course and we'll see where this goes.
You're right, most people don't care. A lot of CDs I've purchased had little content in the booklet. Sometimes it was just one piece of paper with a track listing and some legal info. If I want lyrics to a song, I'll use Google. I can get a thumbnail of the album cover on my iPod anyway. And a lot of people put all their CDs in a case anyway so they can transport them more easily. I think CD sales are going to become a niche market and stores like Fye will have to change their business to stay alive.
Maybe something like an iTunes booth in these stores could work. You put in some cash or swipe your credit card and hook your iPod up to these and it handles the transfer of the music. Although I don't yet see how this is profitable. But my point is, these brick and mortar stores can survive if they figure out what people want and stop trying to peddle a dying market.
One thing they could do is start loading data into a faster cache while in game play. They could offload this to a dedicated piece of hardware so it doesn't slow the game play down. I'm thinking along the lines of when level 3 is being played, level 4 should be cached since this might be typical in most games.
It came out, it was fixed. There are going to be problems in any project this large, but it shows how much the Ubuntu team cares to respond to a problem this quickly and on a Sunday of all days. Ubuntu really has become a nice distro. It's completely free and polished around the edges. I hope they continue to do well.
I think that people who feel they are not justly compensated by this lawsuit, going to a small claims court might be a good idea. However, they still need to show damages. They have to have evidence that Sony cost them money. Maybe that could be hiring some geek squad guy to come over and fix it. Maybe it could simply be their time.
It would be great if Sony was treated the same as some punk kid who hacks into a computer owned by MegaCorp and is fined thousands and given jailtime, but that's unlikely in this environment. I'd love to see people win their case in small claims courts, but they have to understand that they still need to show real damages. Punitive damages will be too difficult to get in small claims courts.
I'm not a liberal nor am I a conservative. I see each issue and form my own opinion based on what I think is "right" or the "best choice". I don't lock myself into some club and I'm surprised that so many people do. Sorry to rant, but it makes my head hurt when I see comments start with "I'm a liberal, and proud of it." Maybe I should say "I form my own opinions and I'm proud of that."
Yeah but why should the tax payers spend $90 million just so Clinton can appeal to conservative voters? I think stunts like this should come out of her campaign budget.
Drivers to what? How many components in a PC does dell design and manufacter. They buy a bunch of components, throw them in a box, and wrap a guarantee around it. Currently, it's not in their interests to sell PCs loaded with linux because not enough customers are demanding it.
When I was (I'm in my twenties now so it's not too far off) I remember hearing about solar power. It was amazing...free energy from light. I went to the Radio Shack in town and bought myself a "solar kit". It was a cheap solar cell and a motor with a fan...probably cost them 80 cents and charged me $14.99 but it didn't phase me. When I first put it together it was such an amazing feeling. I brought it outside and the motor started to spin.
For several years after that I was very facinated by the idea. The concept and downright purity of free energy seemed god-like. But soon I realized that there was something wrong with this. Solar cells produced only a small amount of energy. People need lots of energy...Now I'm an engineering student and I can relate these ideas to mathematical equations and easily prove to myself what I thought ten years or so ago.
Humans need lots of energy. Solar, hydroelectric, wind, and geothermal are nice, but they don't solve the problem. Environmentalists have protested nuclear so much that our country is burning coal and petroleum products for energy. This is insane when you realise that burning coal puts more radiation in the air than all the nuclear accidents and oil comes from countries run by terrorists.
I think the US could position itself well if nuclear power was increased and we worked ourselves towards a hydrogen economy. It's not perfect, but I think it's better than what we're doing now. Part of this war on terror is the war to protect oil, and cost alone...it's very expensive.
Yeah and when someone brings up how the US didn't sign the Kyoto treaty because it unfairly put stricter requirements on the US than China everyone blames Bush for not looking out for the rest of the world. Liberals are gonna bitch about everything. The point the parent was making is that Bush is looking out for world economics because it then helps US economics.
I think Bush is just being optimistic. The US is probably headed for tougher times in some industries. People who got into computer science to become programmers expecting $70k a year might get screwed. Tough shit, they tried to make an easy buck. Now the demand has decreased and they have to compete with the other business majors.
Um...did you read the article. It sounded more like people had a problem with a commitee doling out 3 billion dollars without having to hold public hearings on who gets the money. No where did I read that a religious group was involved. This sounds more like "old as time...liberals blame 'right wingers' for something." btw, I am not religious nor against stem cell research so don't blame me.
The big problem is also the length of the transmission cable. A few feet of wire carrying 12 and 5 volts in your PC won't be too wastefull. But that wire is suddenly say 100 feet long than it can start to waste electricity as heat. Say at 12 volts your powering a component that needs 2 amps. And the long wire now acts say as a 1 ohm resistor. So using V=iR, the voltage drop becomes significant and your power supply now needs to account for it. But yes, you are right in that a few machines next to each other don't need such a long cable and it would be a good idea.
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Thank you very much for pointing that out. What's happening now is that the Democrats are trying to establish a base. I saw a poll on tv tonight and it said that 47% (give or take) americans consider themselves "in the middle". I forget the numbers exactly, but more of the remainder consider themselves conservative than liberal. Democrats realize that to win the 2008 election, they have to appeal to these people and stop the "angry liberal" strategy that lost them the 2000 and 2004 elections. (Bush won the 2000 recount done by the press so don't even bring that up) This is also why Hillary Clinton is going after video games.
Let's face it, we're headed for another year and a half of this crap.
I clicked the first link and it says it airs at 9PM EST
Oh :)
Sorry. Didn't mean to flame. my bad.
You can discuss it all you want. But it's been done so many times on slashdot what's the point? Thousands of bible thumpers complained about Howard Stern and it led to him quitting. Why? Because they acted. While others were complaining amongst themselves, free speech got trampled on and laws like this got enacted. So the point I was trying to make was complain all you want here, but back it up with action so the people elected to power hear it.
I never said I was against it. I said it was not bad or imoral. You slashdot knee-jerk liberals are killing me. And don't say that to me, complain to the 100,000 bible thumpers who write letters complaining to the FCC. I'm certainly not one of them.
Did you see the video? "Implying" is treating it lightly. It's not like someone said "hey let's have a teenage orgy" It was a little more graphic than that. I'm not saying it was bad or imoral, but it was a little graphic for the time and channel.
on Bill O'Reilly. The issue here is not that "sex is evil" but that this scene was a violation of the stated rules. This was shown in primetime and not after 10PM. Based on the time of day, there are rules for public broadcasters. So this can turn into a big argument, but those are the rules. If you don't like the rules, then contact your congressman or congresswoman.
And btw, I love when the southpark movie is shown after 1:30 PM occasionally. There's nothing like hearing, "you butt fucking uncle fucker" to celebrate our nation's tolerance on "foul" language.
That's personal preference I guess. I listen to my music using my computer and when I want song lyrics I'm usually at my computer anyway. I use adblock so I don't really have to deal with those obtrusive ads. And I don't care if a site copies all the lyrics off another site as long as it's correct. Another cool thing is if I don't know the artist or song name but a few words from the lyrics, I can usually find the song in a few seconds with google. That's a lot faster than flipping through CDs.
I agree and also if I find a retailer that seems to have some sort of Google endorsement, I have a "no shananagan" expectation. I'm not saying that Google has to warrent every product sold through these stores, but they can't simply act as a middle man and use their name to woo customers but not offer anything in return to the customers. I'm a little concerned Google is getting itself into something with a lot of competition. Not to say there weren't search engines before and after Google, but searching is something they can do inhouse and focus on. This idea sounds like they might be putting the customer service and complaints on to some fly-by-night company and their image may suffer if bad stores simply use this to make a quick buck.
Although, I'm just speculating of course and we'll see where this goes.
You're right, most people don't care. A lot of CDs I've purchased had little content in the booklet. Sometimes it was just one piece of paper with a track listing and some legal info. If I want lyrics to a song, I'll use Google. I can get a thumbnail of the album cover on my iPod anyway. And a lot of people put all their CDs in a case anyway so they can transport them more easily. I think CD sales are going to become a niche market and stores like Fye will have to change their business to stay alive.
Maybe something like an iTunes booth in these stores could work. You put in some cash or swipe your credit card and hook your iPod up to these and it handles the transfer of the music. Although I don't yet see how this is profitable. But my point is, these brick and mortar stores can survive if they figure out what people want and stop trying to peddle a dying market.
Pretty soon the operator control unit will be.
Which is exactly why he wouldn't want the world to know how he got this far yet.
One thing they could do is start loading data into a faster cache while in game play. They could offload this to a dedicated piece of hardware so it doesn't slow the game play down. I'm thinking along the lines of when level 3 is being played, level 4 should be cached since this might be typical in most games.
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It came out, it was fixed. There are going to be problems in any project this large, but it shows how much the Ubuntu team cares to respond to a problem this quickly and on a Sunday of all days. Ubuntu really has become a nice distro. It's completely free and polished around the edges. I hope they continue to do well.
I think that people who feel they are not justly compensated by this lawsuit, going to a small claims court might be a good idea. However, they still need to show damages. They have to have evidence that Sony cost them money. Maybe that could be hiring some geek squad guy to come over and fix it. Maybe it could simply be their time.
It would be great if Sony was treated the same as some punk kid who hacks into a computer owned by MegaCorp and is fined thousands and given jailtime, but that's unlikely in this environment. I'd love to see people win their case in small claims courts, but they have to understand that they still need to show real damages. Punitive damages will be too difficult to get in small claims courts.
I'm not a liberal nor am I a conservative. I see each issue and form my own opinion based on what I think is "right" or the "best choice". I don't lock myself into some club and I'm surprised that so many people do. Sorry to rant, but it makes my head hurt when I see comments start with "I'm a liberal, and proud of it." Maybe I should say "I form my own opinions and I'm proud of that."
Yeah but why should the tax payers spend $90 million just so Clinton can appeal to conservative voters? I think stunts like this should come out of her campaign budget.
Drivers to what? How many components in a PC does dell design and manufacter. They buy a bunch of components, throw them in a box, and wrap a guarantee around it. Currently, it's not in their interests to sell PCs loaded with linux because not enough customers are demanding it.
When I was (I'm in my twenties now so it's not too far off) I remember hearing about solar power. It was amazing...free energy from light. I went to the Radio Shack in town and bought myself a "solar kit". It was a cheap solar cell and a motor with a fan...probably cost them 80 cents and charged me $14.99 but it didn't phase me. When I first put it together it was such an amazing feeling. I brought it outside and the motor started to spin.
For several years after that I was very facinated by the idea. The concept and downright purity of free energy seemed god-like. But soon I realized that there was something wrong with this. Solar cells produced only a small amount of energy. People need lots of energy...Now I'm an engineering student and I can relate these ideas to mathematical equations and easily prove to myself what I thought ten years or so ago.
Humans need lots of energy. Solar, hydroelectric, wind, and geothermal are nice, but they don't solve the problem. Environmentalists have protested nuclear so much that our country is burning coal and petroleum products for energy. This is insane when you realise that burning coal puts more radiation in the air than all the nuclear accidents and oil comes from countries run by terrorists.
I think the US could position itself well if nuclear power was increased and we worked ourselves towards a hydrogen economy. It's not perfect, but I think it's better than what we're doing now. Part of this war on terror is the war to protect oil, and cost alone...it's very expensive.
Yeah and when someone brings up how the US didn't sign the Kyoto treaty because it unfairly put stricter requirements on the US than China everyone blames Bush for not looking out for the rest of the world. Liberals are gonna bitch about everything. The point the parent was making is that Bush is looking out for world economics because it then helps US economics.
I think Bush is just being optimistic. The US is probably headed for tougher times in some industries. People who got into computer science to become programmers expecting $70k a year might get screwed. Tough shit, they tried to make an easy buck. Now the demand has decreased and they have to compete with the other business majors.
Um...did you read the article. It sounded more like people had a problem with a commitee doling out 3 billion dollars without having to hold public hearings on who gets the money. No where did I read that a religious group was involved. This sounds more like "old as time...liberals blame 'right wingers' for something." btw, I am not religious nor against stem cell research so don't blame me.
http://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm
Wire gauge is important when the current is high. A motherboard, CPU, and a few hard drives are gonna require some decent current.
The big problem is also the length of the transmission cable. A few feet of wire carrying 12 and 5 volts in your PC won't be too wastefull. But that wire is suddenly say 100 feet long than it can start to waste electricity as heat. Say at 12 volts your powering a component that needs 2 amps. And the long wire now acts say as a 1 ohm resistor. So using V=iR, the voltage drop becomes significant and your power supply now needs to account for it. But yes, you are right in that a few machines next to each other don't need such a long cable and it would be a good idea.