Those damned vuvuzelas are an invention that dates to 2000. Yep, just about 10 years old. They aren't a musical tradition, they are a MARKETING ploy. The "vuvuzela" doesn't exist outside soccer, and didn't exist prior to 2000.
There's no tradition here, just an obnoxious toy.
Of course, the whole sport is obnoxious to me, (and boring) so I've avoided the vuvzelas by simply not watching.
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with what i've read about him, i'd say Thomas Jefferson wasn't a racist.
Indeed. Racists rarely (never?) have romantic relationships with the objects of their hate.
Thomas Jefferson may have owned slaves, but this was more an issue of him being a product of the time he lived in, rather than racism of any kind. It should also be noted that he was well known for remarkable kindness towards his slaves (It was noted that he treated his slaves better them most treated their servants) and that he did free them upon his death.
I think we can still fairly honor and revere the man for his genius in matters of human governance despite his own moral failings.
It's frightening just how much modern American government has become like the nightmare Statist government in Ayn Rand's novels, constantly meddling with and attempting to control market forces that it and it's members are incapable of understanding or wanting to understand.
Regardless of what you may think of her personally, she was prescient.
A traveling salesman was driving along a country road. As he passed a sheep farm he saw a man out in the field with his trousers down having sex with one of the sheep. Shocked, he pulled into the farm driveway, walked up to the farmhouse and knocked on the door. A beautiful young woman answered the and asked if she could help him. The salesman told the young lady "I don't mean to shock you, but there is a man out in your field doing inappropriate things to your sheep!" The young lady sighed, rolled her very large brown eyes and said; "Oh, that's just D-a-a-a-a-a-a-ddy.":)
Somehow I doubt the market for monkey and horse asses is all that much in need of additional supplies.
Most countries already have very large supplies available within their political structures. It's one of the few things that government excels at; Generating monkey's and horses' asses.
No, it isn't. Whiskey is made by distillation. Basically, BOILING the alcohol out of a barley-malt beer (no hops!), and then condensing and collecting the alcohol steam and whatever other elements were light enough to boil off with it.
The boiling process chemically alters the drink. Not only does it leave behind much of the non-alcohol AND non-water elements, but those elements that manage to boil off with the alcohol are different than they were before the boiling process started.
Simply put, adding heat changes the chemical composition of a liquid far more than removing heat does. Whiskey is made by adding heat. These beers are made by removing it.
Why would you say that? This is nothing like freeze drying, beyond the fact that there is water removal going on. It's not as though they are making powdered beer.
Just as a review for those who didn't RFTA:
Essentially, the ambient temperature of the beer is lowered to between the temperatures that water and alcohol freeze at, while agitating or stirring the beer. This allows the water to crystallize out of the beer, while preventing it from forming a giant block. At precisely the right moment, before the ice crystals grow large enough to begin encapsulating the alcohol, the beer is decanted and filtered to remove the ice crystals, then returned to the barrel and the process begins again. It's actually NOT a complex process. The only tricky part is timing the decant and filter stage.
If any of you remember the "Ice Brewed" beer fad back in the 1990's, this is just the natural progression of that process, only done in boutique quantities, with a more refined process and better materials. Admittedly, crappy Coors beer isn't made all that much better by ice brewing, thus the 1990's fad died. But if you start with a high quality product, such as the Sam Adams Utopia beers do, then you end up with a really fantastic result.
Well, Not to defend the News Corp decision, because I do disagree with it, but we have to admit, the oldline news services are in a bit of a bind.
They are used to being able to make money both on the front end (Selling newspapers and/or subscriptions) and on the back end (selling ads that are placed in their newspapers or via TV sponsors.) With the rise of the internet, New Media sources are eating into their reader/viewership and thus their bottom line.
The real issue for the old media sources is that many internet news "sources" are simply aggregators of news from other sources, with most of those sources being the old media websites! So the old media has to bear all the traditional costs of running a news outlet (paying for personnel, buildings, IT assets, travel expenses, benefits packages, etc.) but are losing revenue to new media outlets that have either none, or significantly less of those same cost outlays, because they are often a single person running a website, or a small staff of people working in a small office running a website.
A primary example of this is one of the most most popular new sources on the web, The Drudge Report. Regardless of your personal opinion of Matt Drudge, one must admit that his site is very very popular. Who runs The Drudge Report? Well, pretty much just Matt. (Although he may have some staff now, I don't honestly know for certain.) And what IS The Drudge Report? Mostly just a news aggregator. Yes, it has broken several unique stories over it's lifetime, but it's MOSTLY just an aggregator. There are other sites that operate on similar principles, (/. itself would make another excellent example) and they make up the bulk of the "New Media" market.
So what is a company like News Corp do to? They are losing traditional front-end sales to News Aggregators, and are losing back-end ad sales to Ad blocking technology. If they don't make money they don't survive. So can one REALLY blame them if they decide to go paywall?
Personally, I think that there are better options, such as Partial paywall or better ad delivery that doesn't rely on unsecure 3rd party ad delivery services or more smoothly integrated non-flash ads that are both harder to block and less likely to spur attempts to block.
I'm sure others can come up with even better ideas, but I think we all need to admit that these companies need to be allowed to conduct their business in the way that they see fit without us siting here and just demanding everything for free and expecting them to run on well-wishes and nice thoughts.
Not to sound trollish, but if that's all you can come up with you are really lacking in imagination.
If HP can come up with a super-thin high density display that can run off a Watch-sized solar panel, What happens when you blow that same display up to smartphone or Tablet PC size? How about a Smartphone or Tablet PC that uses almost no battery power to run the display, allowing for DAYS worth of unplugged computing instead of hours?
Also note that the screen is FLEXIBLE. What about a pull-out display on a thin wand-style device, or a smartphone with a display that pulls out ala Caprica?
The possibilities are endless here. Combine these devices with an easy to use and intuitive multitasking OS like WebOS and you have a revolution in computing. Not just the next step, but the next Generation.
I think you are missing the point of his argument.
What he is saying is that the inherent fragility of the medium and/or it's state of being "locked away" is in no way related to the terms of copyright.
For example: I could go out and make a film with my camcorder right now. All arguments of my ability to actually make a film worth watching aside, I would essentially own the copyright to what I produced, provided that I did not re-use anyone else's copyrighted material in the process. Now, let's say that I then decide to take my earth-shaking work of camcorder prowess, and lock it up in my fire-proof safe until the tape degrades to dust.
What does the TERM of copyright have to do with that? Even if I no longer have copyright, since I hold the only copy and am not allowing anyone else physical access, my copyright is essentially eternal. So unless your version of copyright reform includes forcefully taking original works from the owners, changing copyright terms will not fix the issue of the loss of original works via apathy.
Windows NTFS (any version) and to a lesser extent, JFS... with many of the other options fitting between those two and HPFS (virtually no fragmentation).
This is why defragmentation software exists.
Also, while I tend to disagree with drsmithy on many issues on varying topics, I absolutely agree with him on this issue.
Unless one is working with an enterprise-level storage system that HAS to have fast data access (A SAN hosting the data for an ESX cluster, for example) then 7200 speed drives are massive overkill. Also, slower SATA drives tend to last longer and have less failures overall than the faster ones.
I personally just replaced a big mess of smaller drives with 2 1TB drives in a mirrored array. I selected the Western Digital Green drives. They are 5400 speed drives with a double-size cache. I regularly stream 720p and 1080p video from it and have yet to have even a single issue. Hell, I've played music on one PC while RDPing into the host OS and streaming video on another PC in the house over wireless and still didn't have issues.
So no, I wouldn't worry about the drive speed being an issue in a home application.
In other news, can the submitter hook me up with some of his sweet, sweet 1080p video collection? Please?
Too bad SC2 is such a complete joke. I haven't been able to get the SP missions to work yet. Is Brackman even IN SC2?
Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen a game so utterly betrayed in it's follow-up as Supreme Commander was.
The worst part about it? Part of the reason for the whole "shrink" of the scope of SC2 was slowdowns and playability issues with SC1 and it's expansion pack. Ironically, SC2 plays WORSE on my machine than SC1 EVER did.
Do you realize that Chrome has integrated developer tools and even has a timeline for page loading to identify slow areas?
Why was this modded "Offtopic"? While the parent might not be giving the OP exactly what they want, they are clearly attempting to answer the question.
"Offtopic" is not a valid alternative for "incorrect".
And what if 3,500,000 people take their $50 elsewhere? What then?
This is why I don't own a console, and probably never will. A console doesn't give me enough control, and is nothing but a money pit. Far more so than a PC.
Control is what it comes down to. I insist on controlling the equipment I own. Excepting my Cable box (which I'm basically renting) I have ultimate authority over all electronics in my house. Nobody else can tell me how to use it., and nobody can remotely disable any of it's capabilities.
Think about it: What good are those old X-boxes now? You can't play online with them, and Single player was NEVER very impressive on them. They don't have HD capabilities, so even XBMC isn't useful anymore. They are junk. Not even useful for nostalgia's sake like an old Atari, NES, or SNES. And the old games? Money down the drain. Hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars per person just gone.
With PC games, even if my PC dies and I have to build a new one, I can still play my old games. Even if I change OSes I can still play most of them because community groups are porting them over. So even though I've changed PC's multiple times since MW4 came out, I can still bust it out and play it, any time I want. (and I do. MW4 was and is a great game.)
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Talk about cultural intolerance...
Cultural Intolerance?
Those damned vuvuzelas are an invention that dates to 2000. Yep, just about 10 years old. They aren't a musical tradition, they are a MARKETING ploy. The "vuvuzela" doesn't exist outside soccer, and didn't exist prior to 2000.
There's no tradition here, just an obnoxious toy.
Of course, the whole sport is obnoxious to me, (and boring) so I've avoided the vuvzelas by simply not watching.
NOT Boy Scouts of America.
Trust me, you don't want what the BSA is selling.
with what i've read about him, i'd say Thomas Jefferson wasn't a racist.
Indeed. Racists rarely (never?) have romantic relationships with the objects of their hate.
Thomas Jefferson may have owned slaves, but this was more an issue of him being a product of the time he lived in, rather than racism of any kind. It should also be noted that he was well known for remarkable kindness towards his slaves (It was noted that he treated his slaves better them most treated their servants) and that he did free them upon his death.
I think we can still fairly honor and revere the man for his genius in matters of human governance despite his own moral failings.
It's frightening just how much modern American government has become like the nightmare Statist government in Ayn Rand's novels, constantly meddling with and attempting to control market forces that it and it's members are incapable of understanding or wanting to understand.
Regardless of what you may think of her personally, she was prescient.
A traveling salesman was driving along a country road. :)
As he passed a sheep farm he saw a man out in the field with his trousers down having sex with one of the sheep.
Shocked, he pulled into the farm driveway, walked up to the farmhouse and knocked on the door.
A beautiful young woman answered the and asked if she could help him.
The salesman told the young lady "I don't mean to shock you, but there is a man out in your field doing inappropriate things to your sheep!"
The young lady sighed, rolled her very large brown eyes and said;
"Oh, that's just D-a-a-a-a-a-a-ddy."
Forget the Rabit-human hybrids. What about the Catgirls?
NOOOOOOO!
(Sorry I just couldn't help myself)
Somehow I doubt the market for monkey and horse asses is all that much in need of additional supplies.
Most countries already have very large supplies available within their political structures. It's one of the few things that government excels at; Generating monkey's and horses' asses.
Actually, I was waiting for the *chan/habbo-related memes to start popping up.
Wasn't there something about a pool...
I didn't think Germans were still allowed to enforce 'purity laws'.
Oh, dude...
That's just mean.
No, it isn't. Whiskey is made by distillation. Basically, BOILING the alcohol out of a barley-malt beer (no hops!), and then condensing and collecting the alcohol steam and whatever other elements were light enough to boil off with it.
The boiling process chemically alters the drink. Not only does it leave behind much of the non-alcohol AND non-water elements, but those elements that manage to boil off with the alcohol are different than they were before the boiling process started.
Simply put, adding heat changes the chemical composition of a liquid far more than removing heat does. Whiskey is made by adding heat. These beers are made by removing it.
Why would you say that? This is nothing like freeze drying, beyond the fact that there is water removal going on. It's not as though they are making powdered beer.
Just as a review for those who didn't RFTA:
Essentially, the ambient temperature of the beer is lowered to between the temperatures that water and alcohol freeze at, while agitating or stirring the beer. This allows the water to crystallize out of the beer, while preventing it from forming a giant block. At precisely the right moment, before the ice crystals grow large enough to begin encapsulating the alcohol, the beer is decanted and filtered to remove the ice crystals, then returned to the barrel and the process begins again. It's actually NOT a complex process. The only tricky part is timing the decant and filter stage.
If any of you remember the "Ice Brewed" beer fad back in the 1990's, this is just the natural progression of that process, only done in boutique quantities, with a more refined process and better materials. Admittedly, crappy Coors beer isn't made all that much better by ice brewing, thus the 1990's fad died. But if you start with a high quality product, such as the Sam Adams Utopia beers do, then you end up with a really fantastic result.
Well, Not to defend the News Corp decision, because I do disagree with it, but we have to admit, the oldline news services are in a bit of a bind.
They are used to being able to make money both on the front end (Selling newspapers and/or subscriptions) and on the back end (selling ads that are placed in their newspapers or via TV sponsors.) With the rise of the internet, New Media sources are eating into their reader/viewership and thus their bottom line.
The real issue for the old media sources is that many internet news "sources" are simply aggregators of news from other sources, with most of those sources being the old media websites! So the old media has to bear all the traditional costs of running a news outlet (paying for personnel, buildings, IT assets, travel expenses, benefits packages, etc.) but are losing revenue to new media outlets that have either none, or significantly less of those same cost outlays, because they are often a single person running a website, or a small staff of people working in a small office running a website.
A primary example of this is one of the most most popular new sources on the web, The Drudge Report. Regardless of your personal opinion of Matt Drudge, one must admit that his site is very very popular. Who runs The Drudge Report? Well, pretty much just Matt. (Although he may have some staff now, I don't honestly know for certain.) And what IS The Drudge Report? Mostly just a news aggregator. Yes, it has broken several unique stories over it's lifetime, but it's MOSTLY just an aggregator. There are other sites that operate on similar principles, (/. itself would make another excellent example) and they make up the bulk of the "New Media" market.
So what is a company like News Corp do to? They are losing traditional front-end sales to News Aggregators, and are losing back-end ad sales to Ad blocking technology. If they don't make money they don't survive. So can one REALLY blame them if they decide to go paywall?
Personally, I think that there are better options, such as Partial paywall or better ad delivery that doesn't rely on unsecure 3rd party ad delivery services or more smoothly integrated non-flash ads that are both harder to block and less likely to spur attempts to block.
I'm sure others can come up with even better ideas, but I think we all need to admit that these companies need to be allowed to conduct their business in the way that they see fit without us siting here and just demanding everything for free and expecting them to run on well-wishes and nice thoughts.
Not to sound trollish, but if that's all you can come up with you are really lacking in imagination.
If HP can come up with a super-thin high density display that can run off a Watch-sized solar panel, What happens when you blow that same display up to smartphone or Tablet PC size? How about a Smartphone or Tablet PC that uses almost no battery power to run the display, allowing for DAYS worth of unplugged computing instead of hours?
Also note that the screen is FLEXIBLE. What about a pull-out display on a thin wand-style device, or a smartphone with a display that pulls out ala Caprica?
The possibilities are endless here. Combine these devices with an easy to use and intuitive multitasking OS like WebOS and you have a revolution in computing. Not just the next step, but the next Generation.
Except that is PALM OS, not WEBOS.
Pay attention.
Well, HP just bought Palm. Use your imagination.
WebOS based flexible low-power display smart "phones" that can either be wearable, or as a small carryable.
Translate the same tech over into the WebOS based slate, and you have a revolution in computing.
iPad nothin'. WebOS is the future. HP and Palm are going to take us there.
I think you are missing the point of his argument.
What he is saying is that the inherent fragility of the medium and/or it's state of being "locked away" is in no way related to the terms of copyright.
For example: I could go out and make a film with my camcorder right now. All arguments of my ability to actually make a film worth watching aside, I would essentially own the copyright to what I produced, provided that I did not re-use anyone else's copyrighted material in the process. Now, let's say that I then decide to take my earth-shaking work of camcorder prowess, and lock it up in my fire-proof safe until the tape degrades to dust.
What does the TERM of copyright have to do with that? Even if I no longer have copyright, since I hold the only copy and am not allowing anyone else physical access, my copyright is essentially eternal. So unless your version of copyright reform includes forcefully taking original works from the owners, changing copyright terms will not fix the issue of the loss of original works via apathy.
This is why defragmentation software exists.
Also, while I tend to disagree with drsmithy on many issues on varying topics, I absolutely agree with him on this issue.
Unless one is working with an enterprise-level storage system that HAS to have fast data access (A SAN hosting the data for an ESX cluster, for example) then 7200 speed drives are massive overkill. Also, slower SATA drives tend to last longer and have less failures overall than the faster ones.
I personally just replaced a big mess of smaller drives with 2 1TB drives in a mirrored array. I selected the Western Digital Green drives. They are 5400 speed drives with a double-size cache. I regularly stream 720p and 1080p video from it and have yet to have even a single issue. Hell, I've played music on one PC while RDPing into the host OS and streaming video on another PC in the house over wireless and still didn't have issues.
So no, I wouldn't worry about the drive speed being an issue in a home application.
In other news, can the submitter hook me up with some of his sweet, sweet 1080p video collection? Please?
Too bad SC2 is such a complete joke. I haven't been able to get the SP missions to work yet. Is Brackman even IN SC2?
Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen a game so utterly betrayed in it's follow-up as Supreme Commander was.
The worst part about it? Part of the reason for the whole "shrink" of the scope of SC2 was slowdowns and playability issues with SC1 and it's expansion pack. Ironically, SC2 plays WORSE on my machine than SC1 EVER did.
So sad.
Isn't that how the Matrix supposedly started? Humans invented computers complex and "organic" enough to develop AI?
So should we kill it now before it enslaves us all, or what?
Do you realize that Chrome has integrated developer tools and even has a timeline for page loading to identify slow areas?
Why was this modded "Offtopic"? While the parent might not be giving the OP exactly what they want, they are clearly attempting to answer the question.
"Offtopic" is not a valid alternative for "incorrect".
Not really surprising. It IS ThinkProgress after all.
I vote for them as "Most ironically named website of all time."
It's a nubbin. As in: "Who wants to touch my nubbin?" /donut
And what if 3,500,000 people take their $50 elsewhere? What then?
This is why I don't own a console, and probably never will. A console doesn't give me enough control, and is nothing but a money pit. Far more so than a PC.
Control is what it comes down to. I insist on controlling the equipment I own. Excepting my Cable box (which I'm basically renting) I have ultimate authority over all electronics in my house. Nobody else can tell me how to use it., and nobody can remotely disable any of it's capabilities.
Think about it: What good are those old X-boxes now? You can't play online with them, and Single player was NEVER very impressive on them. They don't have HD capabilities, so even XBMC isn't useful anymore. They are junk. Not even useful for nostalgia's sake like an old Atari, NES, or SNES. And the old games? Money down the drain. Hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars per person just gone.
With PC games, even if my PC dies and I have to build a new one, I can still play my old games. Even if I change OSes I can still play most of them because community groups are porting them over. So even though I've changed PC's multiple times since MW4 came out, I can still bust it out and play it, any time I want. (and I do. MW4 was and is a great game.)
Long live PC gaming.
Too bad the entire video is a complete lie.
The implication is that Chrome can actually load the web pages indicated in the video as fast as the various "fast things" the video shows.
HOWEVER
If you boost it up to 720p fullscreen and look closely at the video, you will see that the "web pages" are loading from....
"file://C:/Users/Kevin/Desktop/(very large string of characters)"
(You can see it really clearly at 0:47)
Yeah. Loading from local file. ANY browser will load a LOCAL FILE that fast! It's a complete fake-out and lie by Google.
How many of you swallowed it whole?
Why was my post modded "Troll"? Since when is stating facts about TFA classify as "trolling"????
Can I get a mod fix please?