The conservatives and their mouthpieces in the media never shut up about how often Obama takes vacation and plays golf, etc, but with Bush they were quick to rush in with "It's a tough job and he needs lots of breaks, etc."
Come on down to Florida to see how much more damage the Rs could do if they were in power. This Tea Party fuckwad Rick Scott is not even trying to hide how pro corporation, anti-normal person he is.
If he could have his way 100%, there would be 0% taxes for corporations and those making more than $150k would just be paid by the government from taxes collected from those making less than $50k. Infrastructure improvements would be defunded. Public education would go away. All state employees would be fired and all governement regulation would be removed, except the regulations that help his cronies get richer.
It is really sickening to see the end game of the elected tea partiers. It is unabashed class warfare, and they are, so far, being quite successful at getting the very people they have declared war on to support them.
At least he can play golf near DC. Clearing brush took GWB all the way out to Texas for weeks at a time.
Seriously though, come up with a better argument than "ZOMG HE'S PLAYING GOLF!!!!!111!!!1" He's the President of the United States, and you know what, when you have a high stress job like that, you might need to unwind from time to time, lest you go batshit crazy.
I didn't vote for him. He's done enough stupid shit while in office that I will not vote for him next time. Yet, at the same time, I know that whatever dumbass corporate stooge the Republicans trot out for their mouth breathing base to vote for will not be worthy of my vote either. Democrat or Republican, they're all corrupt.. Unless they aren't corrupt, in which case they will be corrupt before they get done.
In the end, no matter who you vote for, we all lose...
I do not at all believe my behavior is immoral. Copyright law may say it is illegal, but I have paid for this content that I am viewing, so I feel that it is perfectly moral.
My comprehension grasped exactly what you said. Unfortunately, you did not read my post where I said that I am downloading the shows, while I also happen to have a DVR which could record them.
The $150/month I pay Comcast tells me I can download any damned television program I want and timeshift it. I'm sorry if I'm not home when House or Heroes or the newest Nova comes on. I pay Comcast for a DVR which provides almost the same functionality as downloading the Divx rip of the show, and at higher resolution to boot. Yet I choose to download the show to watch at my convenience, on the medium of my convenience.
I'll leave you to continue attacking the intelligence of anyone who has an opinion that doesn't agree with your own.
The $150/month I pay Comcast tells me I can download any damned television program I want and timeshift it. I'm sorry if I'm not home when House or Heroes or the newest Nova comes on. I pay Comcast for a DVR which provides almost the same functionality as downloading the Divx rip of the show, and at higher resolution to boot. Yet I choose to download the show to watch at my convenience, on the medium of my convenience.
Don't tell me that I haven't paid for the content. The $3/day Comcast is extorting from me tells me otherwise.
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Even Marissa Mayer Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience uses PINE for her business email:
I use Gmail for my personal e-mail -- 15 to 20 e-mails a day -- but on my work e-mail I get as many as 700 to 800 a day, so I need something really fast.
I use an e-mail application called Pine, a Linux-based utility I started using in college.
Sorry about the crappiness of the website I linked to, but CNN doesn't know how to design for FF yet.
Orbiter landings at the Kennedy Space Center are made on one of the largest runways in the world. The runway is located 3.2 km (2 miles) northwest of the Vehicle Assembly Building and is 4,572 meters (15,000ft) long and 91.4 meters (300ft) wide - about as wide as the length of a football field. It has 305 meters (1000ft) of paved overruns at each end and the paving thickness is 40.6cm (15 inches) at the center. ( http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/tour/new/slf1.h tm)
The problem is that these people have no conception of "a few megs" or even what's "large" and "what's small". This is basic computer literacy, which many people don't have, and what's worse, don't think they need. There are a few ways to fix this:
In an email program, prominently note in the "browse" box that files that are too large to be emailed are not shown.
In the OS, the icon, or whatever is used to represent a file and/or directory can be made to expand when moused over. The size of the expanded icon will vary based upon the file's size. Since a text file will be relatively small, it's icon may only expand just enough to be noticeable, whereas a 2 gig Xvid file will triple in size. For the uninitiated, this gives a visual clue to the relative size of files.
Again, in an email program, when the user attaches a file, the program could pop up a message notifying the user that "NapoleanDynamite.avi" is going to take 30 minutes to arrive in the recipient's Inbox due to the large size of this file, and recommend that the user think twice about emailing such a large file.
Using techniques like this allow people who have no idea of what the difference between a Megabyte and a Gigabyte is to be able to use a computer. Think of newer stick shift cars. Many manual transmission cars now lack a tachometer, electing to have two lights: Shift Up, and "Shift Down." While the power user will want his tachometer to see just how many RPM's his Porsche is turning, there is college student who doesn't care, but just wants the manual because it gets better gas mileage. Making the system work for the user should be seen as a good thing, not a bad thing.
When I graduated from High School back in 2001, Gillete sent me a Mach3 and a single razor cartridge in the mail for free. My friends and I have talked about this and we all agree that whoever decided to do this ought to be deified within Gillete due to the sheer genious of this. I used that same handle up until two weeks ago, when I bought one of their new Mach3TurboSuperDuperNowWithBuzzing or whatever its called, because I wanted to try it out. There was nothing wrong with the old one though, but because of them sending me that for free, I have been a loyal Gillette customer for over four years now.
Have you ever bought a cell phone at full retail price? At least 3/4 of them cost more than $300 before the carrier takes off the "drink our contract kool aid" discount.
I'm talking about Virtual PC for Windows. It is much much slower that VMWare on windows. I'm not sure why this is, but it is evident that a VMWare Virtual WinXP box running inside of Windows will run much much much faster than a VPC Virtual WinXP box running inside of Windows. I haven't used VPC on OSX, so I can't speak to that, all I'm saying is that you shouldn't expect to much from VPC on Intel.
I seriously doubt Virtual PC will run at full speed, considering that it doesn't even run at full speed on Windows. If you want full speed virtual machines (or as close as you can get for now) go get a copy of VMWare. Running WinXP in Virtual PC is 3-4x slower than on VMWare.
Am I the only one who was annoyed by Spiner a few weeks back when he was on Enterprise? I just feel like he overacts in the emotion dept to make up for the years of playing Data.
My my "My Documents" folder points directly to the root of my D: drive. It's simple to do. In Windows Explorer, just right click on the "My Documents" root, and edit the target directory to whatever you would like. While this only protects data kept in My Documents directory, it is a start.
The irony of your typo is lost on many. In America, if you sue for it, they will give you dough.
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Human Powered Helicopter
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Why would you want a human powered helicopter?
Uhm, because... Sometimes, you just do something for the sake of doing it.
Seriously. How is it a waste of time or money? The people who are doing this probably have no medical knowledge that could help cure cancer.
Speaking of a waste of time, back to reading more inane comments on/.
What the grandparent was doing is a common comic element where the word that is expected is replaced by a wierd that gives the statement a different, humorous meaning.
Humor, however is lost on the vast majority of the/. crowd, unfortunately. Including you, Viagra Man.
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The conservatives and their mouthpieces in the media never shut up about how often Obama takes vacation and plays golf, etc, but with Bush they were quick to rush in with "It's a tough job and he needs lots of breaks, etc."
Works both ways.
Come on down to Florida to see how much more damage the Rs could do if they were in power. This Tea Party fuckwad Rick Scott is not even trying to hide how pro corporation, anti-normal person he is.
If he could have his way 100%, there would be 0% taxes for corporations and those making more than $150k would just be paid by the government from taxes collected from those making less than $50k. Infrastructure improvements would be defunded. Public education would go away. All state employees would be fired and all governement regulation would be removed, except the regulations that help his cronies get richer.
It is really sickening to see the end game of the elected tea partiers. It is unabashed class warfare, and they are, so far, being quite successful at getting the very people they have declared war on to support them.
At least he can play golf near DC. Clearing brush took GWB all the way out to Texas for weeks at a time.
Seriously though, come up with a better argument than "ZOMG HE'S PLAYING GOLF!!!!!111!!!1" He's the President of the United States, and you know what, when you have a high stress job like that, you might need to unwind from time to time, lest you go batshit crazy.
I didn't vote for him. He's done enough stupid shit while in office that I will not vote for him next time. Yet, at the same time, I know that whatever dumbass corporate stooge the Republicans trot out for their mouth breathing base to vote for will not be worthy of my vote either. Democrat or Republican, they're all corrupt.. Unless they aren't corrupt, in which case they will be corrupt before they get done.
In the end, no matter who you vote for, we all lose...
Or maybe it's the fact that I don't actually know anyone that has a device in their home that accepts component inputs...
My brand new Samsung UN55B8000 (Check it, it's their top of the line LED set) has one component input.
My LG 47LH55 (bought in June) has two component inputs..
Heck, it even has one composite input.
Something tells me you're wrong.
It's not google earth, rather MS Virtual Earth, but check out weather.com. They're overlaying live weather radar on virtual earth. It's really cool.
I do not at all believe my behavior is immoral. Copyright law may say it is illegal, but I have paid for this content that I am viewing, so I feel that it is perfectly moral.
Oh, and please excuse my bad math. $5/day
Don't tell me that I haven't paid for the content. The $3/day Comcast is extorting from me tells me otherwise.
Even Marissa Mayer Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience uses PINE for her business email:
Sorry about the crappiness of the website I linked to, but CNN doesn't know how to design for FF yet.
1 ft^3 = 1 728 in^3
So
5,400,000 x 1728 = 9,331,200,000 in^3
9,331,200,000 in^3 / 4 in^3 blocks = 2,332,800,000 blocks
2,332,800,000 blocks @ $50/block = $116,640,000,000
$116,640,000,000 - ( $5.90 x 2,332,800,000 blocks (Ebay/Paypal fees Assuming Merchant Gold) = $102,876,480,000
$102.9 billion dollars.
My only question... will it get us to Mars?
There are a few ways to fix this:
Using techniques like this allow people who have no idea of what the difference between a Megabyte and a Gigabyte is to be able to use a computer. Think of newer stick shift cars. Many manual transmission cars now lack a tachometer, electing to have two lights: Shift Up, and "Shift Down." While the power user will want his tachometer to see just how many RPM's his Porsche is turning, there is college student who doesn't care, but just wants the manual because it gets better gas mileage. Making the system work for the user should be seen as a good thing, not a bad thing.
Well, ya know what they say, "Ya win some, ya lose some."
When I graduated from High School back in 2001, Gillete sent me a Mach3 and a single razor cartridge in the mail for free. My friends and I have talked about this and we all agree that whoever decided to do this ought to be deified within Gillete due to the sheer genious of this. I used that same handle up until two weeks ago, when I bought one of their new Mach3TurboSuperDuperNowWithBuzzing or whatever its called, because I wanted to try it out. There was nothing wrong with the old one though, but because of them sending me that for free, I have been a loyal Gillette customer for over four years now.
Through the Florida State Apple Store website, there is a $20 discount for the Nano. $179 and $229.
Have you ever bought a cell phone at full retail price? At least 3/4 of them cost more than $300 before the carrier takes off the "drink our contract kool aid" discount.
I'm talking about Virtual PC for Windows. It is much much slower that VMWare on windows. I'm not sure why this is, but it is evident that a VMWare Virtual WinXP box running inside of Windows will run much much much faster than a VPC Virtual WinXP box running inside of Windows. I haven't used VPC on OSX, so I can't speak to that, all I'm saying is that you shouldn't expect to much from VPC on Intel.
I seriously doubt Virtual PC will run at full speed, considering that it doesn't even run at full speed on Windows. If you want full speed virtual machines (or as close as you can get for now) go get a copy of VMWare. Running WinXP in Virtual PC is 3-4x slower than on VMWare.
Magic, my friend. Magic, and nothing else. Well, that.. and the force.
The Enterprise-E just beamed him down. Why do you think they were there?
Am I the only one who was annoyed by Spiner a few weeks back when he was on Enterprise? I just feel like he overacts in the emotion dept to make up for the years of playing Data.
My my "My Documents" folder points directly to the root of my D: drive. It's simple to do. In Windows Explorer, just right click on the "My Documents" root, and edit the target directory to whatever you would like. While this only protects data kept in My Documents directory, it is a start.
The irony of your typo is lost on many. In America, if you sue for it, they will give you dough.
Why would you want a human powered helicopter?
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Uhm, because... Sometimes, you just do something for the sake of doing it.
Seriously. How is it a waste of time or money? The people who are doing this probably have no medical knowledge that could help cure cancer.
Speaking of a waste of time, back to reading more inane comments on
i use babelfish still... whenever i need something translated...
What the grandparent was doing is a common comic element where the word that is expected is replaced by a wierd that gives the statement a different, humorous meaning. /. crowd, unfortunately. Including you, Viagra Man.
Humor, however is lost on the vast majority of the