Sure, you can stock up on pre-broadcast flag HDTV cards, and you can do all sorts of other tricks, but to do what you talk of for long-term goals, you're gonna need to work from the inside of the "system". Like others have said, big companies can spend all they want on re-election campaigns, but they still get elected by those who vote.
What most people forget about American democracy is that it is designed to work well in facilitating peaceful revolutions- when people care and vote. The blame for the sorry state the American government is in lies with nobody save every last American citizen who is currently enfranchised (older than 18, etc.). And I write this as an American citizen.
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I have a 1.3 GHz TBird that the old CPU cooler died with, so I replaced it with an XP cooler. I had to mount it off-center, because of the mobo capicitors getting in the way. So it didn't connect with my CPU correctly. It went from room temperature to 80 C in about 20 seconds sitting on the bios screen.
I agree with you on the sillyness of my first argument, and I am fully aware of a painting's three dimentional interaction. Just try arguing that point with a courtroom full of those who Just Don't Get It(TM)- those who can honestly say they don't need to travel the world because they've been to Epcot.
A sculpture is a much more inherently visual medium as compared to an album; therefore, I suppose one could concieveably say making a copy of the visual representation at a given point of the object would be an infringement.
However, as an architecture student, I feel that sculpture (*especially* this one) uses space as its primary medium rather than just the visual; you can, and infact the Bean demands you interact with it in three-dimentional space to fully understand and comprehend this thing. I'd counter argue that only a holographic representation, or an old-fashioned plaster cast would be truly breaking copyright.
Not to flame or bash, but RH 6.2 running ancient KDE is hardly a decent representation of current Linux capabilities. I'm currently stuck with Windows for my USB sound card (TASCAM US-122) and Autodesk software, but I'm switching back as soon as the Tascam works with ALSA better than it does now and when Autodesk stuff will run under any one of the wine family.
It's not GNU, but ReactOS is open source Windows (namely, NT4, with bits of NT5 thrown in as they get to it. There's a screenshot of it running Quake II, so it can't be that off.
I think most of their problems with percieved idocy comes from them running into each other trying to control all markets at once, and it wasn't until recently when they were able to cool down, realize MS isn't going anywhere, and look long term- it's easier to slide stuff rather to force stuff.
If Monster Cable really isn't any better than any other kind of cable, then surely they would be setting themselves up for a costly class action lawsuit by claiming otherwise?
Microsoft claims how Windows is superior to everything-nix, BSD freaks claim that it's not dead, no matter what Netcraft confirms, and Linux zealots claim that it is teh 1337 05. Anyone sueing them?
Speaker wire is nothing more than fancy AC power cables, and with a good reason- analog audio is represented electrically as AC current. Nothing special, just simple AC. It's voltage and frequency vary considerably (voltage = volume, frequency = pitch), but it's just AC nonetheless. The only reason why it doesn't look like it is because most of the time there's a fancy connector on the end of it... or other times, just bare wire.
The only reason why your dryer has thicker cable than your TV is due to the fact that the dryer pulls much more current than the TV, and to avoid literally melting your cables and starting a nice electrical fire the conductive material is thicker to carry the increased current. The same is true for speaker cables- the cable used on big, multi-kW PA systems is much bigger than the 1 W headphones you've got.
As long as you don't do silly things like running audio parallel to power cables (tends to induce a 60 Hz hum into your audio) and make sure you cross all power cables @ 90 degree (or pi/2 radian) angles, you will get great performance with either Home Depot extension cords or Monster Cable speaker cable, because they are the exact same thing. Keyboard magazine ran an article a few years back on cable comparisons. The listening test, done with at least 10-15 people, showed no superior performer. The only way they could rank them is in how well they lasted (one of their tests: slam the cable in a pickup truck bed door 10 times and see if it still works).
There is differences between different kinds of cable, but the differences are for signal types. Analog audio is AC, so AC cables work just *great*. For example, twisted pair ethernet uses a differential signal to avoid interference problems, more details can be found here. Check up on your stuff next time before trolling so hard.
No stupid "port it yourself" comments. I don't ask you people to design your own communicaions fiber rings, so you shouldn't expect me to program my own software.
earl Harbor is part of Hawaii, which IIRC voted to join the USA.
Hawaii was once a monarchy. US plantation owners came there, set up farms. US plantation owners overthrew the monarchy already in place there, set up their own "republic", and petitioned Congress for annexation. Not one native Hawaiian (sp?) voted on the matter.
As a white American who enjoys his middle-class lifestyle, well, you're statement is quite correct. They didn't call the series of post American Civil War military campaigns "The Indian Wars" for nothing.
You *do* realize that there has never been a "Palestine" as a nation-state either. That land was once part of the Ottoman Empire, which was then given in a mandate to the British after the Ottoman Empire was dismantled under the League of Nations post-WWI. The 1948 UN Partition of Palestine did however, set aside land for a Palestinian homeland. If you look at maps of the partition scheme and post 1948 war maps, you'd notice that Arab nations around Israel managed to swallow up large amounts of land set aside for the Palestianians. Not a single nation, wanted the Palestinian nation there. For example, Trans-Jordan wanted the entirety of Palestine to itself, which is also what I believe Egypt and Syria wanted. Israel, naturally, didn't want to be so squished between gun implacements.
Both are cultures not of hate, but cultures where children are born of fire. Political leaders on both sides tend to be war heros, who still remember being shot at by the other side.
From what I understand, it's been Jews vs Muslims in Palestine/Israel/Holy Land/Great Block of Artificial Cheese for the past few centuries. One of those nobody-knows-who-started-it things. Both ethnic groups in the region hate each other, and the reasons why are unknown, and long before America started meddling in the eastern hemisphere.
It doesn't matter nearly as much if they invented them or not, but it sounds like they're making an IBM-style pledge to use their patents as a shield for the open source community rather than a sword against it.
I'm not saying that a firewall getup with more layers than a wedding cake is necessary for 95% of all people. Are we, though, in agreement that "take reasonable precautions" means at least a firewall on your machine, plus (if Windows) regular virus scanning, and perhaps an additional firewall (such as one built into a small broadband router) at the point of access to the internet? (And yes, I do check my credit card regularly; I agree that not to do so is just friggin' stupid)
It's just that your argument had sounded a smidgen reactionary (get your money back after it's been stolen) rather than proactive (try and not lose it in the first place). Methinks a careful blend of the two is the sanest route. I'm actually in your position- nothing on my computer is really of any value except account information, and with my accounts as they are, it's not worth the time they'll spend smacking their foreheads for wasting the time to get into my broke-ass information.
I knew what this did, and I'm talking about from when I did this like a month ago. I was on my laptop, with a USB printer using CUPS, running a plain vanilla 2.6.6 kernel. I ran "cat/dev/urandom" in rxvt on Slackware 9.1, as a regular user. I got all the random gobbledygook I'm supposed to get, but right as I was reaching for the ctrl+c, the printer started going with it's own random gobbledygook (much like what HP printers do when they throw a fit). I ctrl+c'ed it, and had to log into the CUPS management tool to kill the processes. A friend of mine said urandom might have stumbled onto some control characters to print out stuff.
I never meant to accuse you of trying to write zeros to my partition, my apologies.
OK, so for security, what if someone cracked it and installed a keylogger? You go shopping online, and they've got all they need to make online purchases in your name.
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Sure, you can stock up on pre-broadcast flag HDTV cards, and you can do all sorts of other tricks, but to do what you talk of for long-term goals, you're gonna need to work from the inside of the "system". Like others have said, big companies can spend all they want on re-election campaigns, but they still get elected by those who vote.
What most people forget about American democracy is that it is designed to work well in facilitating peaceful revolutions- when people care and vote. The blame for the sorry state the American government is in lies with nobody save every last American citizen who is currently enfranchised (older than 18, etc.). And I write this as an American citizen.
I have a 1.3 GHz TBird that the old CPU cooler died with, so I replaced it with an XP cooler. I had to mount it off-center, because of the mobo capicitors getting in the way. So it didn't connect with my CPU correctly. It went from room temperature to 80 C in about 20 seconds sitting on the bios screen.
I am actually *really* interested in this as well... let me know how things turn out if he contacts you
I agree with you on the sillyness of my first argument, and I am fully aware of a painting's three dimentional interaction. Just try arguing that point with a courtroom full of those who Just Don't Get It(TM)- those who can honestly say they don't need to travel the world because they've been to Epcot.
A sculpture is a much more inherently visual medium as compared to an album; therefore, I suppose one could concieveably say making a copy of the visual representation at a given point of the object would be an infringement.
However, as an architecture student, I feel that sculpture (*especially* this one) uses space as its primary medium rather than just the visual; you can, and infact the Bean demands you interact with it in three-dimentional space to fully understand and comprehend this thing. I'd counter argue that only a holographic representation, or an old-fashioned plaster cast would be truly breaking copyright.
Not to flame or bash, but RH 6.2 running ancient KDE is hardly a decent representation of current Linux capabilities. I'm currently stuck with Windows for my USB sound card (TASCAM US-122) and Autodesk software, but I'm switching back as soon as the Tascam works with ALSA better than it does now and when Autodesk stuff will run under any one of the wine family.
It's not GNU, but ReactOS is open source Windows (namely, NT4, with bits of NT5 thrown in as they get to it. There's a screenshot of it running Quake II, so it can't be that off.
CPU temp below 50C? My P4 Northwood laptop (HP zd7000) idles @ 53C
I think most of their problems with percieved idocy comes from them running into each other trying to control all markets at once, and it wasn't until recently when they were able to cool down, realize MS isn't going anywhere, and look long term- it's easier to slide stuff rather to force stuff.
My father is in his mid to late 50's. He's a menace on the road.
Then again, he's been a menace since I can remember...
Microsoft claims how Windows is superior to everything-nix, BSD freaks claim that it's not dead, no matter what Netcraft confirms, and Linux zealots claim that it is teh 1337 05. Anyone sueing them?
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Speaker wire is nothing more than fancy AC power cables, and with a good reason- analog audio is represented electrically as AC current. Nothing special, just simple AC. It's voltage and frequency vary considerably (voltage = volume, frequency = pitch), but it's just AC nonetheless. The only reason why it doesn't look like it is because most of the time there's a fancy connector on the end of it... or other times, just bare wire.
The only reason why your dryer has thicker cable than your TV is due to the fact that the dryer pulls much more current than the TV, and to avoid literally melting your cables and starting a nice electrical fire the conductive material is thicker to carry the increased current. The same is true for speaker cables- the cable used on big, multi-kW PA systems is much bigger than the 1 W headphones you've got.
As long as you don't do silly things like running audio parallel to power cables (tends to induce a 60 Hz hum into your audio) and make sure you cross all power cables @ 90 degree (or pi/2 radian) angles, you will get great performance with either Home Depot extension cords or Monster Cable speaker cable, because they are the exact same thing. Keyboard magazine ran an article a few years back on cable comparisons. The listening test, done with at least 10-15 people, showed no superior performer. The only way they could rank them is in how well they lasted (one of their tests: slam the cable in a pickup truck bed door 10 times and see if it still works).
There is differences between different kinds of cable, but the differences are for signal types. Analog audio is AC, so AC cables work just *great*. For example, twisted pair ethernet uses a differential signal to avoid interference problems, more details can be found here. Check up on your stuff next time before trolling so hard.
In America, we have Aaron Copland, you insensitive clod!
Best point ever.
Make it GPL.
Hawaii was once a monarchy. US plantation owners came there, set up farms. US plantation owners overthrew the monarchy already in place there, set up their own "republic", and petitioned Congress for annexation. Not one native Hawaiian (sp?) voted on the matter.
As a white American who enjoys his middle-class lifestyle, well, you're statement is quite correct. They didn't call the series of post American Civil War military campaigns "The Indian Wars" for nothing.
You *do* realize that there has never been a "Palestine" as a nation-state either. That land was once part of the Ottoman Empire, which was then given in a mandate to the British after the Ottoman Empire was dismantled under the League of Nations post-WWI. The 1948 UN Partition of Palestine did however, set aside land for a Palestinian homeland. If you look at maps of the partition scheme and post 1948 war maps, you'd notice that Arab nations around Israel managed to swallow up large amounts of land set aside for the Palestianians. Not a single nation, wanted the Palestinian nation there. For example, Trans-Jordan wanted the entirety of Palestine to itself, which is also what I believe Egypt and Syria wanted. Israel, naturally, didn't want to be so squished between gun implacements.
Here's a map of the UN plan and here's one post war of independence. Notice how the area known as the West Bank, which was gifted to the Palestinians, isn't Israel... nor Palestinian...
Both are cultures not of hate, but cultures where children are born of fire. Political leaders on both sides tend to be war heros, who still remember being shot at by the other side.
From what I understand, it's been Jews vs Muslims in Palestine/Israel/Holy Land/Great Block of Artificial Cheese for the past few centuries. One of those nobody-knows-who-started-it things. Both ethnic groups in the region hate each other, and the reasons why are unknown, and long before America started meddling in the eastern hemisphere.
However, it is possible to create a productive, cohesive community that can benifit Sun manyfold without trust?
It doesn't matter nearly as much if they invented them or not, but it sounds like they're making an IBM-style pledge to use their patents as a shield for the open source community rather than a sword against it.
I'm not saying that a firewall getup with more layers than a wedding cake is necessary for 95% of all people. Are we, though, in agreement that "take reasonable precautions" means at least a firewall on your machine, plus (if Windows) regular virus scanning, and perhaps an additional firewall (such as one built into a small broadband router) at the point of access to the internet? (And yes, I do check my credit card regularly; I agree that not to do so is just friggin' stupid)
It's just that your argument had sounded a smidgen reactionary (get your money back after it's been stolen) rather than proactive (try and not lose it in the first place). Methinks a careful blend of the two is the sanest route. I'm actually in your position- nothing on my computer is really of any value except account information, and with my accounts as they are, it's not worth the time they'll spend smacking their foreheads for wasting the time to get into my broke-ass information.
I knew what this did, and I'm talking about from when I did this like a month ago. I was on my laptop, with a USB printer using CUPS, running a plain vanilla 2.6.6 kernel. I ran "cat /dev/urandom" in rxvt on Slackware 9.1, as a regular user. I got all the random gobbledygook I'm supposed to get, but right as I was reaching for the ctrl+c, the printer started going with it's own random gobbledygook (much like what HP printers do when they throw a fit). I ctrl+c'ed it, and had to log into the CUPS management tool to kill the processes. A friend of mine said urandom might have stumbled onto some control characters to print out stuff.
I never meant to accuse you of trying to write zeros to my partition, my apologies.
OK, so for security, what if someone cracked it and installed a keylogger? You go shopping online, and they've got all they need to make online purchases in your name.
I did "cat /dev/urandom" and my printer started spewing as much nonsense as my terminal. So don't cat urandom with a connected printer. :)