I'd rather dispute the statement that it was a destruction of property that was brought on by the person whom had grabbed the phone, I would state that the girl wanted the cellphone broken as she was misusing it as a tool to create noise pollution in the region of a theatre where it is common sense that this region is that of low noise levels and that you will incite hatered upon yourself by talking loudly! This is common sense law, none of your bullcrapping snakey american laws.
I tip my hat to you sir, for being a fucking twit, yet another one of the 'American' world.
You are all forgetting the potential of your TV set's crummy SMPS power supply to cause a ground loop feedback into your VGA video card and fry the fucker, good riddens if you are all stupid enough to consider it I say...
"The thing is, you can't expect a society raised by public schools (the government) to question things like The Patriot Act. Remember, these are the same people who today overwhelmingly state that the government should have the authority to censor news papers and that the press has too much freedom and that they should even be required to recieve approval from the government before publishing all stories."
Why shouldn't newspapers at least partially be moderated? Why is it up to a corporation's financial status to determine the next best thing/person?
With the news media back in the '50s they listened to the public, IN THE PUBLIC, it wasn't so hard to go out to the street and get an opinion upon what the newest thing was.
The reason why this doesn't work today is because newspaper and radio/television were seperate from each other, radio stations would play the latest track to hit their desk and Television stations would hold new-talent programming to find the latest sound.
Nowdays CORPORATIONS dictate what is the best sounding track, old fucks living it rich upstairs.
Why do you think filesharing is so popular today?
Half of the problem with the future outlook of our youth is television, advertisements don't only provide a service for the notification of a product they also inflict a serious social format for which your children will eat up every living day of their young life and so have you, and your parents, for the past 60 years.
Most of television programming is fantasy-based, if Americans were actually christian you would be producing more "gay" *cough* programming, where a situation is played out and no one is hurt, no threats are made and no deals are forged, yet this is exactly the opposite of what exists.
Thats why action movies are so popular, but back in the 60s-70s it was in moderation, not like today where every program you see is at least a small action-movie.
The BBC has a good thing going, science enravelled with Drama in the Space Odyssey series, why haven't we seen more of this from the USA, oh thats right, you're all watching the action movies.
The way your communities are physically structured will also play a part, quicker to go to the bank and/or your office but you have to drive for hours to go to a park or rural setting? Whatever happened to a picnic every thursday afternoon?
What happened to public holidays? Follow the lead of the Germans (in that respect).
Are skyscrapers and apartment buildings truly the way a city is the most efficient? We are moving into an era of Electric vehicles and internet based work, distance will soon be a non-deciding factor...
"In a society where the young people think we have to much freedom we are seriously fucked. Our young people are supposed to be the rebels. The fighters. The change-makers. Not sheep."
Why shouldn't the young people think we have too much freedom? They've been told how lucky they are their entire life, they have the future goals of consuming more products instead of creating a family.
All of their adult years has been fighting between study and entertainment, entertainment produced by a consumer item, if you're no longer the centre of attention, then they will have no aspect of understanding how the world revolves, life, rebirth and death.
I'm a struggling pre-high school certificate student in NSW, Australia, if Americans don't have the means to figure out this much then you're all retards as far as I'm concerned.
Retards after the chest of gold at the end of the Californian rainbow.
Today I can send and receive data from one speck of sand in the islands of Hawaii to my own back yard somewhere in rural NSW via:
#1 Satellite phone (400 kbps downstream) #2 2-way Satellite Ku-Band internet #3 low-orbit HAM packet satellites (With nothing but a laptop, some software and some transciever gear with a decent Yagi) #4 Commerical downstream-upstream rental, aka Panamsat. #5 Making a cell phone call from any region supporting modem links. #6 Future layout of long-distance VHF/UHF Wireless networking.
And yes, every thing is dependant upon what Arthur C Clarke conjured up back in the FIFTIES!
Now all we need is idiots like Optus/Telstra and the Australian government to permit the use of high-bandwidth high-frequency public pipes on satellites.
It's never been easier to get off-grid yet still remain online.
Think about it this way, you already have a machine that can pump blood for you via mechanical means, now imagine a machine that has a primary purpose of keeping a pre-cultured fully grown heart alive, feeding it oxygen and nutrients, and you being able to use that heart to keep you alive...
I despise Snake Oil practices but don't shun all audiophiles because of it, an audiophile can be anyone, I for one am happy with cheap $150 speakers bought off ebay made by some shoddy Taiwanese manufacturer trying to sell them as a much better performing make, a 20 year old Yamaha A-760 and a Yamaha YMF-744B on 15 feet of cheap coax and a couple of home made RCA breakouts.
it sounds great but remember it isn't just the rich and stupid whom are ripping off the customer, Manufacturers all over the world are stashing cheap assed speakers into your beloved *enter-european-sounding-last-name-of-whore-here*.
Why do you think "satellite" speakers are in such small boxes? They by rights should be in a box made out of plywood which is at least four or eight times as large, for decades longer than you've been born all speakers have had a best-performing minimum enclosure dimension in their designs.
Why do you think you can pin-point where the bass speaker is? Is it because the satellite speakers aren't good at all at reproducing the low-end midrange region and therefore the bass reproducer has to fill-in for it?
Why do you think all commercially made amplifiers today run in Class-D? Yes Cost! Why aren't they run in Class-A or hell even Class-AB would be an improvement, and no, Class-D has no fucking thing to do with Digital.
Your signal is received by the amplifier and converted back into analog for processing by this shoddy re-take on the SMPS power supply, I wouldn't be surprised that it goes past at least three noisy digital circuits before it even reaches the preamplifier stage.
Why do you think you have so many "sound enhancing features" on your remote control or faceplate? Is it that manufacturers don't have the guts to own up and actually produce a decent sounding amplifier? Something that doesn't coverup the design flaws and replace them as "features"?
Personally I'm happy with my myriad of vintage mosfet amplifiers and DIY tube amplifiers which are based upon a 50+ year old design and operate in gas-guzzling Class-A (And PP Class-AB) for 20-50 watts RMS on 90+ dB efficient speakers that I bought for $150.
Oh and yes, a tube amplifier can sound just as good as a solid state and it can sound just as bad as a solid state amplifier.
But the bottom line for Tube amps is that I can get better performance sound-wise out of one 6GW8 Triode/Pentode than you can out of that $1000 5.1 "Receiver".
Bullshit, when it comes to life and death the right thing for Americans to do is make VoIP capable of redirecting 911 calls so that even the deaf, blind, dumb and foolish can still call 911 even in a blackout, this should have been taken cared for even before people heared of the VoIP handset, under all circumstances should someone be able to dial 911 it's been taken for granted for quite a few decades now.
The lights have gone out and there is no mains power, everyone is down the street rioting the lack of choice in American politics, except you whom came back for more boose or something, by some amazing coincidence your nextdoor neighbour has had an argument with their partner at the same time everyone is out and the partner has set their place alight, The angry mob was near a cell phone tower, some bright idiot decided to climb it and yank off the parabolics like king kong, sure enough you check your cellphone and there is no service, there are no payphones that you know of in the building or down the street.
What if the apartment which is going up in flames is a part of yours?
Screwing around with the tower has caused a substation to burst into flames, it'll be weeks before power is restored to your district.
What do you do?
You know you shouldn't go into your apartment because it's right next door, you know you have a POTS phone still installed, there is no power except to your phone and everyone else in the building has VoIP installed, so there is no point in breaking in to use the phone of someone elses.
It seems in this situation that POTS would save the day, and it probably could have because the only courses of action you could take are:
1# Going to a higher altitude to attempt better cell phone reception from another repeater.
2# Grabbing the fire hydrant and attempting to put out the furnace yourself.
3# Getting in your car and driving the 1/4 mile to the police station through the angry mob.
4# Driving to the next closest police station to inform them that a riot is getting out of control in your suburb and that your apartment is on fire.
5# Going down into the riot and informing the police that you have witnessed a murder and arson, them calling another district for backup and fire fighting services.
Now add this to civil war and it doesn't look so improbable does it?
If it were up to me I wouldn't want anything to do with Microsoft, yet here they are giving me the only chance at becoming something, as disgusting as it sounds.
"In the classroom, this seems simple to sort out: only allow computer access with specific purpose, direction, and supervision for a specific assignment, or during free time."
Thats bullshit, my life was ruined because three computers were locked up in a dedicated janitors room at the back of our year 6 class of primary we used them for one assignment the final grade of year 6 it was not a good time to be distracted.
It wasn't because they were under lock and key it was because I hated my parents and my teacher and couldn't write a review for a book because I didn't listen to class on how to do it, I was naturally afraid of high school.
The teacher simply walked in and said "Okay we're going to use the computers to do a book report and this is how we do it..."
After "computers" I tuned out and it's ruined my life forever, I ended up copying word for word what the book said instead of listening how to 're-process' this information into not a quote but a short glimpse of the books storyline.
My father taught me how to use the Amiga for word processing, only computer at home at the time, it never worked properly, sure I installed the printer drivers loaded up a word processing application but said to myself "Now what?"
I managed to get in a shitload of trouble then, by the teacher, she yelled at me so I revolted and bought a calculator, small thing that can fit in your pocket and runs off solar power, my parents didn't know until it was too late and I was being shifted off to High school with high grades in Mathematics...I cheated on the test too, no one knew I thought I was going to have a calculator implanted in my brain before I was 14 I used to watch Beyond 2000 a lot, I was a fucked up kid.
I dropped out after 3 months of learning nothing at high school.
Seven years had passed until in 2001 I decided I would finally do something with my life.
I'm now 21 and going for my Level 3 IT course at TAFE (vocational education college) and I see a megar future in tech support for the Microsoft operating system and it's drone deriratives.
On the other hand my friend of 10 years is now in college going for some high-class career, I wouldn't know he left me as a friend in 2002, I'm presuming he no longer needs to "take care" of me now that he knows that I'm in the best position I could ever take.
I'm a smart guy, I didn't just sit on my ass during that seven years before 2001, I repaired and pulled apart computers I've been building my own pc's for the past 5 years while on the side I've been re-learning english and mathematics, TAFE has allowed me to rebuild my life but the fact of the matter is it shouldn't have turned out like this in the first place, but if it does there still should be an organisation to carry the students back onto their feet.
Actually this was my belief when I was about 9, that I would get into computers some way or another and make big bucks out of it, the year was 1995-1996, I had my first introduction to the Macintosh Colour classic and the IBM clones, 386's and 486's.
I went through public school believing that someday I would be able to peer inside a computer and actually work on one or at least program for one, This ended up affecting my last year at primary and I missed out on a great deal of study for my last year.
Then I started cheating with a calculator in mathematics, my mother allowed me to buy one from the local super market, a small Casio black Solar powered one which was very easily concealed, the simple argument that the teachers permitted the use of them at school, my mother never confirmed this, Mathematics this being my lighter subject I was projected as being top of the class and sent to High school in that fashion.
Now high school came along and I was forced to re-do another maths test which put me at the bottom of the class in mathematics, being humiliated and tormented by not only dropping from my "computer fame" (even just being involved in computers was a boon for popularity at primary school) aswell as bullies at High school (I was not only obese but also tall) I called it quits and dropped out of high school in my third month of my first year.
So I was given a choice in the principles office, I can either stay and jog through the humiliation and torment of high school or I can have a choice of staying at home and studying there with Distance education.
I went with Distance education I will regret that for the rest of my life, if however short.
Computers was the worst thing that ever happened to me, I was introduced to a computer yet again, megar thing Colour classic, but it was enough to get me hooked at playing the computer games again, SEVEN years have passed since that day that I was introduced to Distance education.
Funny thing is, it wasn't the Apple that got me hooked to computer games, it was the fucking three IBM computers they left in the "computer room" right adjunct to year 5 and year 6's class rooms.
Last thing I heared just before I left for high school that year 5 had received internet access on a new PowerPC.
My parents didn't give a rats ass about me and they still don't, they've considered themselves retired and useless for the past twenty years, after my father's car accident when he was working at BHP he had a major car accident which cost him his back and job as a labourer at BHP, now he can't go anywhere without two sticks soon it will be a wheelchair.
My father did however introduce me to the commodore 64 and commodore 16 (my first computer) and then later on the Amiga 500 then the IBM 386, then the Amiga 600, then the IBM 486 and then eventually 1998 came along and I got my first pentium.
Funny thing is, throughout this entire ordeal, no one decided that it was time for me to go back to high school.
Yet here I am, 21 years of age in 2005 and still trying to get my high school certificate that I should have gotten in 1999.
I'm going to assume that everyone here thought that I was a genius, when infact I was and never will be.
But I'm about to make a descision which will yet again decide the rest of my life, I just made the descision that all of that computer knowledge at which I had collected between leaving high school and today shouldn't be wasted, but the fact remains all of it only amounts to a megar pc repairers job or maybe, just maybe, an administration career over countless windows drones.
But I only have two choices, waste another year getting my year 10 or go for a Tech support course at the local TAFE campus, I'm too poor to go straight to University and I'm too underqualified to get into any of the
So instead of taking pride in reversing the upside-down pyramid of the population of India (Shitload More older than there are young people) you consider that a space vehicle which provides no further concept of understanding about the orbiting body's makeup and benefits no one except MAYBE some eggheads in the capital of India?
Sounds like feeling industrial is a real killer, I mean sure Russia has been doing it for aaages but you don't see mass cullings there due to disease, do you?
Treat says the robot, developed with a grant from the National Science Foundation, should be able to do "everything a nurse can." Well, not everything. Treat envisions the bot, which is basically a large robotic arm with visual and tactile sensors, handing surgeons their tools in the operating room -- not tucking patients in or fielding questions from family members.
I think it's because you wouldn't want to ask for an "OGG" player at the local store.
MP3 can be pronounced better its understood as a definition which most computer users would undertake, it is easily felt by the masses of barely-computer-illiterate to be special or technical and is instantly defined as an acronym.
OGG on the other hand is pronounced like a fish would be gulping for air, which is not too far from the truth right now.
But I would love to see it make a run in popular brand-name appliances, as you said it does have superior compression for performance and in my personal comparisons at no matter what bitrate MP3 sounds flat and dull whereas OGG livens up everything in mid-range even at low end bitrates.
I'm not shy to make it a master distribution format out of it either.
It would SHINE in online music stores.
I personally LOVE the Ogg format, I use it in all of my Divx rips and I'm waiting for a decent player which supports Ogg, no exceptions.
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You've been to the future haven't you...
I'd rather dispute the statement that it was a destruction of property that was brought on by the person whom had grabbed the phone, I would state that the girl wanted the cellphone broken as she was misusing it as a tool to create noise pollution in the region of a theatre where it is common sense that this region is that of low noise levels and that you will incite hatered upon yourself by talking loudly! This is common sense law, none of your bullcrapping snakey american laws.
I tip my hat to you sir, for being a fucking twit, yet another one of the 'American' world.
Yet another shake & bake study...*shrug*
You are all forgetting the potential of your TV set's crummy SMPS power supply to cause a ground loop feedback into your VGA video card and fry the fucker, good riddens if you are all stupid enough to consider it I say...
"The thing is, you can't expect a society raised by public schools (the government) to question things like The Patriot Act. Remember, these are the same people who today overwhelmingly state that the government should have the authority to censor news papers and that the press has too much freedom and that they should even be required to recieve approval from the government before publishing all stories."
Why shouldn't newspapers at least partially be moderated? Why is it up to a corporation's financial status to determine the next best thing/person?
With the news media back in the '50s they listened to the public, IN THE PUBLIC, it wasn't so hard to go out to the street and get an opinion upon what the newest thing was.
The reason why this doesn't work today is because newspaper and radio/television were seperate from each other, radio stations would play the latest track to hit their desk and Television stations would hold new-talent programming to find the latest sound.
Nowdays CORPORATIONS dictate what is the best sounding track, old fucks living it rich upstairs.
Why do you think filesharing is so popular today?
Half of the problem with the future outlook of our youth is television, advertisements don't only provide a service for the notification of a product they also inflict a serious social format for which your children will eat up every living day of their young life and so have you, and your parents, for the past 60 years.
Most of television programming is fantasy-based, if Americans were actually christian you would be producing more "gay" *cough* programming, where a situation is played out and no one is hurt, no threats are made and no deals are forged, yet this is exactly the opposite of what exists.
Thats why action movies are so popular, but back in the 60s-70s it was in moderation, not like today where every program you see is at least a small action-movie.
The BBC has a good thing going, science enravelled with Drama in the Space Odyssey series, why haven't we seen more of this from the USA, oh thats right, you're all watching the action movies.
The way your communities are physically structured will also play a part, quicker to go to the bank and/or your office but you have to drive for hours to go to a park or rural setting? Whatever happened to a picnic every thursday afternoon?
What happened to public holidays? Follow the lead of the Germans (in that respect).
Are skyscrapers and apartment buildings truly the way a city is the most efficient? We are moving into an era of Electric vehicles and internet based work, distance will soon be a non-deciding factor...
"In a society where the young people think we have to much freedom we are seriously fucked. Our young people are supposed to be the rebels. The fighters. The change-makers. Not sheep."
Why shouldn't the young people think we have too much freedom? They've been told how lucky they are their entire life, they have the future goals of consuming more products instead of creating a family.
All of their adult years has been fighting between study and entertainment, entertainment produced by a consumer item, if you're no longer the centre of attention, then they will have no aspect of understanding how the world revolves, life, rebirth and death.
I'm a struggling pre-high school certificate student in NSW, Australia, if Americans don't have the means to figure out this much then you're all retards as far as I'm concerned.
Retards after the chest of gold at the end of the Californian rainbow.
Dude, Arthur invented the Clarke belt, nuff said...
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Today I can send and receive data from one speck of sand in the islands of Hawaii to my own back yard somewhere in rural NSW via:
#1 Satellite phone (400 kbps downstream)
#2 2-way Satellite Ku-Band internet
#3 low-orbit HAM packet satellites (With nothing but a laptop, some software and some transciever gear with a decent Yagi)
#4 Commerical downstream-upstream rental, aka Panamsat.
#5 Making a cell phone call from any region supporting modem links.
#6 Future layout of long-distance VHF/UHF Wireless networking.
And yes, every thing is dependant upon what Arthur C Clarke conjured up back in the FIFTIES!
Now all we need is idiots like Optus/Telstra and the Australian government to permit the use of high-bandwidth high-frequency public pipes on satellites.
It's never been easier to get off-grid yet still remain online.
Please, you flatter us too much down in AUstralia...
Think about it this way, you already have a machine that can pump blood for you via mechanical means, now imagine a machine that has a primary purpose of keeping a pre-cultured fully grown heart alive, feeding it oxygen and nutrients, and you being able to use that heart to keep you alive...
The possibilities are endless!
I agree, they have been sticking their finger up their butt...
You wouldn't like it it's in spanish...
"el caballero de Canadá de Jedi que da vuelta al lado oscuro de la fuerza y hace el bandido Darth Vader del cyborg."
*Shivver*
I despise Snake Oil practices but don't shun all audiophiles because of it, an audiophile can be anyone, I for one am happy with cheap $150 speakers bought off ebay made by some shoddy Taiwanese manufacturer trying to sell them as a much better performing make, a 20 year old Yamaha A-760 and a Yamaha YMF-744B on 15 feet of cheap coax and a couple of home made RCA breakouts.
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it sounds great but remember it isn't just the rich and stupid whom are ripping off the customer, Manufacturers all over the world are stashing cheap assed speakers into your beloved *enter-european-sounding-last-name-of-whore-here*
Why do you think "satellite" speakers are in such small boxes? They by rights should be in a box made out of plywood which is at least four or eight times as large, for decades longer than you've been born all speakers have had a best-performing minimum enclosure dimension in their designs.
Why do you think you can pin-point where the bass speaker is? Is it because the satellite speakers aren't good at all at reproducing the low-end midrange region and therefore the bass reproducer has to fill-in for it?
Why do you think all commercially made amplifiers today run in Class-D? Yes Cost! Why aren't they run in Class-A or hell even Class-AB would be an improvement, and no, Class-D has no fucking thing to do with Digital.
Your signal is received by the amplifier and converted back into analog for processing by this shoddy re-take on the SMPS power supply, I wouldn't be surprised that it goes past at least three noisy digital circuits before it even reaches the preamplifier stage.
Why do you think you have so many "sound enhancing features" on your remote control or faceplate? Is it that manufacturers don't have the guts to own up and actually produce a decent sounding amplifier? Something that doesn't coverup the design flaws and replace them as "features"?
Personally I'm happy with my myriad of vintage mosfet amplifiers and DIY tube amplifiers which are based upon a 50+ year old design and operate in gas-guzzling Class-A (And PP Class-AB) for 20-50 watts RMS on 90+ dB efficient speakers that I bought for $150.
Oh and yes, a tube amplifier can sound just as good as a solid state and it can sound just as bad as a solid state amplifier.
But the bottom line for Tube amps is that I can get better performance sound-wise out of one 6GW8 Triode/Pentode than you can out of that $1000 5.1 "Receiver".
Bullshit, when it comes to life and death the right thing for Americans to do is make VoIP capable of redirecting 911 calls so that even the deaf, blind, dumb and foolish can still call 911 even in a blackout, this should have been taken cared for even before people heared of the VoIP handset, under all circumstances should someone be able to dial 911 it's been taken for granted for quite a few decades now.
The lights have gone out and there is no mains power, everyone is down the street rioting the lack of choice in American politics, except you whom came back for more boose or something, by some amazing coincidence your nextdoor neighbour has had an argument with their partner at the same time everyone is out and the partner has set their place alight, The angry mob was near a cell phone tower, some bright idiot decided to climb it and yank off the parabolics like king kong, sure enough you check your cellphone and there is no service, there are no payphones that you know of in the building or down the street.
What if the apartment which is going up in flames is a part of yours?
Screwing around with the tower has caused a substation to burst into flames, it'll be weeks before power is restored to your district.
What do you do?
You know you shouldn't go into your apartment because it's right next door, you know you have a POTS phone still installed, there is no power except to your phone and everyone else in the building has VoIP installed, so there is no point in breaking in to use the phone of someone elses.
It seems in this situation that POTS would save the day, and it probably could have because the only courses of action you could take are:
1# Going to a higher altitude to attempt better cell phone reception from another repeater.
2# Grabbing the fire hydrant and attempting to put out the furnace yourself.
3# Getting in your car and driving the 1/4 mile to the police station through the angry mob.
4# Driving to the next closest police station to inform them that a riot is getting out of control in your suburb and that your apartment is on fire.
5# Going down into the riot and informing the police that you have witnessed a murder and arson, them calling another district for backup and fire fighting services.
Now add this to civil war and it doesn't look so improbable does it?
If it were up to me I wouldn't want anything to do with Microsoft, yet here they are giving me the only chance at becoming something, as disgusting as it sounds.
"In the classroom, this seems simple to sort out: only allow computer access with specific purpose, direction, and supervision for a specific assignment, or during free time."
Thats bullshit, my life was ruined because three computers were locked up in a dedicated janitors room at the back of our year 6 class of primary we used them for one assignment the final grade of year 6 it was not a good time to be distracted.
It wasn't because they were under lock and key it was because I hated my parents and my teacher and couldn't write a review for a book because I didn't listen to class on how to do it, I was naturally afraid of high school.
The teacher simply walked in and said "Okay we're going to use the computers to do a book report and this is how we do it..."
After "computers" I tuned out and it's ruined my life forever, I ended up copying word for word what the book said instead of listening how to 're-process' this information into not a quote but a short glimpse of the books storyline.
My father taught me how to use the Amiga for word processing, only computer at home at the time, it never worked properly, sure I installed the printer drivers loaded up a word processing application but said to myself "Now what?"
I managed to get in a shitload of trouble then, by the teacher, she yelled at me so I revolted and bought a calculator, small thing that can fit in your pocket and runs off solar power, my parents didn't know until it was too late and I was being shifted off to High school with high grades in Mathematics...I cheated on the test too, no one knew I thought I was going to have a calculator implanted in my brain before I was 14 I used to watch Beyond 2000 a lot, I was a fucked up kid.
I dropped out after 3 months of learning nothing at high school.
Seven years had passed until in 2001 I decided I would finally do something with my life.
I'm now 21 and going for my Level 3 IT course at TAFE (vocational education college) and I see a megar future in tech support for the Microsoft operating system and it's drone deriratives.
On the other hand my friend of 10 years is now in college going for some high-class career, I wouldn't know he left me as a friend in 2002, I'm presuming he no longer needs to "take care" of me now that he knows that I'm in the best position I could ever take.
I'm a smart guy, I didn't just sit on my ass during that seven years before 2001, I repaired and pulled apart computers I've been building my own pc's for the past 5 years while on the side I've been re-learning english and mathematics, TAFE has allowed me to rebuild my life but the fact of the matter is it shouldn't have turned out like this in the first place, but if it does there still should be an organisation to carry the students back onto their feet.
Reseeds of the "Closer" torrent shoot through the roof...
*hint*
Albatross!, Get your Albatross!
Actually this was my belief when I was about 9, that I would get into computers some way or another and make big bucks out of it, the year was 1995-1996, I had my first introduction to the Macintosh Colour classic and the IBM clones, 386's and 486's.
I went through public school believing that someday I would be able to peer inside a computer and actually work on one or at least program for one, This ended up affecting my last year at primary and I missed out on a great deal of study for my last year.
Then I started cheating with a calculator in mathematics, my mother allowed me to buy one from the local super market, a small Casio black Solar powered one which was very easily concealed, the simple argument that the teachers permitted the use of them at school, my mother never confirmed this, Mathematics this being my lighter subject I was projected as being top of the class and sent to High school in that fashion.
Now high school came along and I was forced to re-do another maths test which put me at the bottom of the class in mathematics, being humiliated and tormented by not only dropping from my "computer fame" (even just being involved in computers was a boon for popularity at primary school) aswell as bullies at High school (I was not only obese but also tall) I called it quits and dropped out of high school in my third month of my first year.
So I was given a choice in the principles office, I can either stay and jog through the humiliation and torment of high school or I can have a choice of staying at home and studying there with Distance education.
I went with Distance education I will regret that for the rest of my life, if however short.
Computers was the worst thing that ever happened to me, I was introduced to a computer yet again, megar thing Colour classic, but it was enough to get me hooked at playing the computer games again, SEVEN years have passed since that day that I was introduced to Distance education.
Funny thing is, it wasn't the Apple that got me hooked to computer games, it was the fucking three IBM computers they left in the "computer room" right adjunct to year 5 and year 6's class rooms.
Last thing I heared just before I left for high school that year 5 had received internet access on a new PowerPC.
My parents didn't give a rats ass about me and they still don't, they've considered themselves retired and useless for the past twenty years, after my father's car accident when he was working at BHP he had a major car accident which cost him his back and job as a labourer at BHP, now he can't go anywhere without two sticks soon it will be a wheelchair.
My father did however introduce me to the commodore 64 and commodore 16 (my first computer) and then later on the Amiga 500 then the IBM 386, then the Amiga 600, then the IBM 486 and then eventually 1998 came along and I got my first pentium.
You can see my megar life wasted at this url: http://users.on.net/~freax/gallery/index.html
Funny thing is, throughout this entire ordeal, no one decided that it was time for me to go back to high school.
Yet here I am, 21 years of age in 2005 and still trying to get my high school certificate that I should have gotten in 1999.
I'm going to assume that everyone here thought that I was a genius, when infact I was and never will be.
But I'm about to make a descision which will yet again decide the rest of my life, I just made the descision that all of that computer knowledge at which I had collected between leaving high school and today shouldn't be wasted, but the fact remains all of it only amounts to a megar pc repairers job or maybe, just maybe, an administration career over countless windows drones.
But I only have two choices, waste another year getting my year 10 or go for a Tech support course at the local TAFE campus, I'm too poor to go straight to University and I'm too underqualified to get into any of the
So instead of taking pride in reversing the upside-down pyramid of the population of India (Shitload More older than there are young people)
you consider that a space vehicle which provides no further concept of understanding about the orbiting body's makeup and benefits no one except MAYBE some eggheads in the capital of India?
Sounds like feeling industrial is a real killer, I mean sure Russia has been doing it for aaages but you don't see mass cullings there due to disease, do you?
I couldn't help but look at that advertisement banner and go... AoooO!!!!!
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Until they start learning how to play Doctor and Nurse:
http://ces.engadget.com/entry/1234000593028087/
Treat says the robot, developed with a grant from the National Science Foundation, should be able to do "everything a nurse can." Well, not everything. Treat envisions the bot, which is basically a large robotic arm with visual and tactile sensors, handing surgeons their tools in the operating room -- not tucking patients in or fielding questions from family members.
*Cough* ahem hem hem...
I think it's because you wouldn't want to ask for an "OGG" player at the local store.
MP3 can be pronounced better its understood as a definition which most computer users would undertake, it is easily felt by the masses of barely-computer-illiterate to be special or technical and is instantly defined as an acronym.
OGG on the other hand is pronounced like a fish would be gulping for air, which is not too far from the truth right now.
But I would love to see it make a run in popular brand-name appliances, as you said it does have superior compression for performance and in my personal comparisons at no matter what bitrate MP3 sounds flat and dull whereas OGG livens up everything in mid-range even at low end bitrates.
I'm not shy to make it a master distribution format out of it either.
It would SHINE in online music stores.
I personally LOVE the Ogg format, I use it in all of my Divx rips and I'm waiting for a decent player which supports Ogg, no exceptions.
Cheers.
www.linuxworld.com has the full story: http://www.linuxworld.com/story/47749.htm/
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Obviously a distressed Japanese buisnessman stuck in his car...
It's a joke.
I could have sworn that title morphed into "Year on mars" from "Year to mars".
Dammit.