The second amendment is the final check and balance put in place to ensure that should all the other checks and balances fail the people themselves would be able to defend themselves against tyrrany.
True in the 18th century, not true now.
There are millions of people who feel that the invasion on Iraq was wrong, the PATRIOT Act is unconstitutional, and are thoroughly unhappy with what they see to be a 'tyrannical' government. But I bet if those guys picked up their guns and marched to Washington, they'd be taken out by the Army in NO time.
You just can't go and march on government and bust it up these days. It's not done. This amendment is thoroughly past its sell by date.
Sir, I bow in your presence. You managed to get a totally stinking troll past the moderators and get modded up to +5! Perhaps trolling could get a revival on/. after all..
Using MP3 on these players is great, it works fine. But the reason why atrac3plus is desirable is because the sound quality at low bit rates is nothing short of amazing.
I'm reasonably fussy, and I can just about 'get by' with 48kbps atrac3plus files. They don't sound great, but as good as well encoded 96kbps MP3s! That's more than enough for these devices since they have very poor output volume, and when you're walking around an airport, who needs high definition sound?
<<.. wow.. this device feels kinda neat... ooooh.. tingly on my adenoids there... i wonder if it's working... it would be so cool if it did.. i always dreamed of this as a kid.. oh my god being a kid was great.. i wish i could hug my dad again..>>
Uh, and if the intelligence that Bush got also said they existed, and Bush repeated this, as he did.. is he really lying? Sure, but he didn't fabricate the lie, he just went on the intelligent his spooks got wrong.
Bush is no great leader, but if US intelligence can't even get shit right, how can he relay the 'truth'?
but I'm not sure I'd like to put that much data in one place
Dude, I said that when the first 10GB+ drives came out. I was thinking... 'whoa! way too much data!' but now I have 100GB of storage. Everyone could say they wouldn't put 'that much data' in one place whenever there's a new revision.. but 'that much data' thankfully feels less and less as time goes by;-)
Good point. Is there any place where you can easily learn what all the symbols mean? Symbols are the whole reason I had trouble with higher mathematics.
500 homes involved in the projects can sign up for promotional pricing of $20/month, which after 3 months will be changed to $50/month.
Yo man, here in the projects we can't even afford $10 for groceries, and yo want us to shell out $50 a month on broadband? I don think this is gunna fly, man!
This is a bit of a 'catch all'. Even though the Nazis claimed to be socialists, and not fascists, this could make die-hard capitalists 'anti socialist'.. and there were plenty of those in Nazi Germany.
I do wish Jehova's Witnesses had a triangle nowadays though, it'd be a great way of avoiding opening the door to them:-)
I'm not sure what 'type of gigabytes' Apple use when denoting their players, and I can't be assed to check out their site;-) So let's assume a typical 20GB iPod is 20,000,000 KB.
The average song in my collection rattled someplace around 4 minutes last time I checked a couple of years ago, let's assume we're talking more mainstream than that and go for 3:30. So the file size would be 210 seconds * 16 KB/s, for a total of 3360KB per song.
20,000,000 / 3360 = 5952.381 128KBps songs on an iPod. Then 5952.381 * 3 * 20 liq. ozs. = 357,142.86 liq. ozs. of Pepsi Cola, or 10148.987 liters.
So, yeah, if you drank 17,858 bottles of Pepsi cola, you could statistically fill your iPod.
The International Telecommunications Union has decided to bring Morse Code into the 21st century
All those morse code operators who have been unable to find it in this century can now breathe a sigh of relief! Morse code has made it to the 21st century, just four years late.
I think a republic is state of government where the people do not directly elect the leader.
The United States is a Democratic Republic, meaning the people get to vote, they just don't directly elect the leader.
If you are reading this and thinking that in the United States, the people DO elect the leader, you only need to look back 4 years to see that is not true. Bush received less votes than Gore, but Bush is our "leader."
The British don't directly elect the leader of government either, but that doesn't make Britain a Republic. That said, you make a good point. Now we know why the Republicans are so called.. they want to get into power without being voted in;-)
Obviously, morse code operators have had ways of getting around using 'at' signs for almost two hundred years, but it's a cool addition, and is as big a deal as they make out.
I find morse code interesting because so many old timers complain about how the Internet makes 'ppl tlk lk this' and say 'nce 2 c u l8r', but that sort of abbreviation has been used in Morse Code for decades! The typical banter you see on IRC or in SMS cellphone text messages is pretty tame compared to what those operators could pump out on the wires:-) If any Morse operators here have some good examples, do post!
With this shift back a version, does it mean we'll lose a bunch of features, stability, etc? It seems like this is petty squabbling for squabbling's sake. This reminds me of the PHP fiasco with MySQL. Hardcore PHPers are sticking with the sluggish MySQL 3 family because of the licensing on MySQL 4.
Reading their 'diff' of the new and old licenses is a waste of time, as it's pretty much:
- all the old license + all the new license
So could someone break down the basic point of the changes? As far as I make it out, it's a simple case of 'we want to have everyone who contributed be credited with every copy', or is it somewhat deeper than that?
Perhaps distros should distribute XFree86 4.4 as source only and have it compile in a 'firsttime' sort of system when you boot Linux up after installation. From what I read in the XFree86 license, this would work. Could this turn into a BSD-like 'build all' for Linux?
People seem to get upside over this hard drive stuff, and sure, companies will make a screw up every now and then. But perhaps we should look at whether we should bust their chops for it every time it happens. IBM staff still need to feed their families and get paychecks.
Do you really want 1000 IBM staff to be laid off because of a single hard drive model? Think of the children who will go hungry because their parents aren't bringing in a paycheck. Seriously folks, this all comes down to the children at the end of the day. They're the ones who suffer if this class action lawsuit succeeds.
Humans make mistakes, let it go. And before you say 'IBM is a corporation'.. well, corporations are recognised as legal entities (i.e. like a person) in law, so they should be allowed to make mistakes from time to time too. I certainly wouldn't want those children's blood on my hands. Would you?
[..] and rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe regular Tom Galloway -- who posted the link there, where I saw it -- made a comparison to the 'super-soldier serum' that created Captain America.
Breaking news. Toms Hardware is going to be benchmarking the Athlon FX-51 against the WOPR from WarGames!
That said, the GNU initalism is a little out of date, since it was created to represent GNU as a final operating system.. which still hasn't happened (although Hurd is coming along nicely).
By 'GNU's Not UNIX' they mean.. GNU isn't 'UNIX' the evil monolithic system which was trademarked by AT&T. They didn't mean that's it's not UNIX-like.. or, as we say nowadays, just 'UNIX'... as in 'Linux is a form of UNIX', etc.
So no, Solaris is no more 'a UNIX' than Linux is 'a UNIX' or FreeBSD is 'a UNIX'.. They are all UNIX, but they are not all UNIX (TM).
You're speaking nonsense. You think that only people who bought rights from SCO can say their operating system is a UNIX?
You are confusing UNIX as trademarked noun, and UNIX as an adjective which can be applied to anything. The BSDs and Linux are both UNIX. Solaris is UNIX. SCO's UNIX is UNIX.
Everyone else has come out with the obvious 'but 100m would be nothing compared to their cash reserves' line.. but forgetting that, Gates doesn't seem to mind fines anyway. He just sees them as a way of getting away with stuff and paying it off.
If you read many of the Microsoft biographies, you'll read stuff talking about how Gates was heavily into speeding everywhere he went, and was constantly being fined and given tickets. He even ended up in jail for it, which is where the infamous Bill Gates in jail picture came from.
But who cares? When you're making massive bucks each month, is it worth a few hundred in fines to stop speeding all the time, if you're not going to end up in jail for a long haul? No. Same goes with this. Paying this fine is just a great way of getting the EU off his back without any hard work.
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I'd rather not. I never went for the Army type.
The second amendment is the final check and balance put in place to ensure that should all the other checks and balances fail the people themselves would be able to defend themselves against tyrrany.
True in the 18th century, not true now.
There are millions of people who feel that the invasion on Iraq was wrong, the PATRIOT Act is unconstitutional, and are thoroughly unhappy with what they see to be a 'tyrannical' government. But I bet if those guys picked up their guns and marched to Washington, they'd be taken out by the Army in NO time.
You just can't go and march on government and bust it up these days. It's not done. This amendment is thoroughly past its sell by date.
(or soon to be third-world countries like France)
/. after all..
Sir, I bow in your presence. You managed to get a totally stinking troll past the moderators and get modded up to +5! Perhaps trolling could get a revival on
Using MP3 on these players is great, it works fine. But the reason why atrac3plus is desirable is because the sound quality at low bit rates is nothing short of amazing.
I'm reasonably fussy, and I can just about 'get by' with 48kbps atrac3plus files. They don't sound great, but as good as well encoded 96kbps MP3s! That's more than enough for these devices since they have very poor output volume, and when you're walking around an airport, who needs high definition sound?
<<.. wow .. this device feels kinda neat ... ooooh .. tingly on my adenoids there ... i wonder if it's working ... it would be so cool if it did .. i always dreamed of this as a kid .. oh my god being a kid was great .. i wish i could hug my dad again ..>>
No, these damn things simply DON'T WORK!!
Uh, and if the intelligence that Bush got also said they existed, and Bush repeated this, as he did.. is he really lying? Sure, but he didn't fabricate the lie, he just went on the intelligent his spooks got wrong.
Bush is no great leader, but if US intelligence can't even get shit right, how can he relay the 'truth'?
but I'm not sure I'd like to put that much data in one place
;-)
Dude, I said that when the first 10GB+ drives came out. I was thinking... 'whoa! way too much data!' but now I have 100GB of storage. Everyone could say they wouldn't put 'that much data' in one place whenever there's a new revision.. but 'that much data' thankfully feels less and less as time goes by
Good point. Is there any place where you can easily learn what all the symbols mean? Symbols are the whole reason I had trouble with higher mathematics.
500 homes involved in the projects can sign up for promotional pricing of $20/month, which after 3 months will be changed to $50/month.
Yo man, here in the projects we can't even afford $10 for groceries, and yo want us to shell out $50 a month on broadband? I don think this is gunna fly, man!
Another Hungarian experience at Apple in 1982.
Anti-Socialists had a black triangle
:-)
This is a bit of a 'catch all'. Even though the Nazis claimed to be socialists, and not fascists, this could make die-hard capitalists 'anti socialist'.. and there were plenty of those in Nazi Germany.
I do wish Jehova's Witnesses had a triangle nowadays though, it'd be a great way of avoiding opening the door to them
I'm not sure what 'type of gigabytes' Apple use when denoting their players, and I can't be assed to check out their site ;-) So let's assume a typical 20GB iPod is 20,000,000 KB.
The average song in my collection rattled someplace around 4 minutes last time I checked a couple of years ago, let's assume we're talking more mainstream than that and go for 3:30. So the file size would be 210 seconds * 16 KB/s, for a total of 3360KB per song.
20,000,000 / 3360 = 5952.381 128KBps songs on an iPod. Then 5952.381 * 3 * 20 liq. ozs. = 357,142.86 liq. ozs. of Pepsi Cola, or 10148.987 liters.
So, yeah, if you drank 17,858 bottles of Pepsi cola, you could statistically fill your iPod.
The International Telecommunications Union has decided to bring Morse Code into the 21st century
All those morse code operators who have been unable to find it in this century can now breathe a sigh of relief! Morse code has made it to the 21st century, just four years late.
I think a republic is state of government where the people do not directly elect the leader.
;-)
The United States is a Democratic Republic, meaning the people get to vote, they just don't directly elect the leader.
If you are reading this and thinking that in the United States, the people DO elect the leader, you only need to look back 4 years to see that is not true. Bush received less votes than Gore, but Bush is our "leader."
The British don't directly elect the leader of government either, but that doesn't make Britain a Republic. That said, you make a good point. Now we know why the Republicans are so called.. they want to get into power without being voted in
Obviously, morse code operators have had ways of getting around using 'at' signs for almost two hundred years, but it's a cool addition, and is as big a deal as they make out.
:-) If any Morse operators here have some good examples, do post!
I find morse code interesting because so many old timers complain about how the Internet makes 'ppl tlk lk this' and say 'nce 2 c u l8r', but that sort of abbreviation has been used in Morse Code for decades! The typical banter you see on IRC or in SMS cellphone text messages is pretty tame compared to what those operators could pump out on the wires
Byte is capitalized (B). Bit is not capitalized (b).
100GB = 100,000,000KB (by SI usage - not the typical computer science definition)
128Kb per second = 16KB per second.
100,000,000 / 16 / 60 / 60 / 24 = 72 days 8 hours 6 minutes and 43.2 seconds.
If you chose to use Mebibytes and Gibibytes (SI units for traditional computer usage of MB and GB) it would work out as:
100GiB = 107,374,182.4 KB
107,374,182.4 / 16 / 60 / 60 / 24 = 77 days 16 hours 8 minutes and 6.4 seconds.
Either way, not 71 days in any case, unless you were using VBR.
With this shift back a version, does it mean we'll lose a bunch of features, stability, etc? It seems like this is petty squabbling for squabbling's sake. This reminds me of the PHP fiasco with MySQL. Hardcore PHPers are sticking with the sluggish MySQL 3 family because of the licensing on MySQL 4.
Reading their 'diff' of the new and old licenses is a waste of time, as it's pretty much:
- all the old license
+ all the new license
So could someone break down the basic point of the changes? As far as I make it out, it's a simple case of 'we want to have everyone who contributed be credited with every copy', or is it somewhat deeper than that?
Perhaps distros should distribute XFree86 4.4 as source only and have it compile in a 'firsttime' sort of system when you boot Linux up after installation. From what I read in the XFree86 license, this would work. Could this turn into a BSD-like 'build all' for Linux?
People seem to get upside over this hard drive stuff, and sure, companies will make a screw up every now and then. But perhaps we should look at whether we should bust their chops for it every time it happens. IBM staff still need to feed their families and get paychecks.
Do you really want 1000 IBM staff to be laid off because of a single hard drive model? Think of the children who will go hungry because their parents aren't bringing in a paycheck. Seriously folks, this all comes down to the children at the end of the day. They're the ones who suffer if this class action lawsuit succeeds.
Humans make mistakes, let it go. And before you say 'IBM is a corporation'.. well, corporations are recognised as legal entities (i.e. like a person) in law, so they should be allowed to make mistakes from time to time too. I certainly wouldn't want those children's blood on my hands. Would you?
[..] and rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe regular Tom Galloway -- who posted the link there, where I saw it -- made a comparison to the 'super-soldier serum' that created Captain America.
Breaking news. Toms Hardware is going to be benchmarking the Athlon FX-51 against the WOPR from WarGames!
10 pm. Cheryl said that 10.45 was too late, and I countered that no time is too late if it's good news. (from Season 2, Episode 1)
I'd be more interested in seeing 'The Doll' episode in RPG form.
BTW, Susie Essman would make a great ogre in the game.. 'you fat fuck and you four eyed piece of shit!'
Why didn't I hear of this, I should be calling my lawyers right now!
GNU is referring to the trademark 'UNIX'.
That said, the GNU initalism is a little out of date, since it was created to represent GNU as a final operating system.. which still hasn't happened (although Hurd is coming along nicely).
By 'GNU's Not UNIX' they mean.. GNU isn't 'UNIX' the evil monolithic system which was trademarked by AT&T. They didn't mean that's it's not UNIX-like.. or, as we say nowadays, just 'UNIX'... as in 'Linux is a form of UNIX', etc.
So no, Solaris is no more 'a UNIX' than Linux is 'a UNIX' or FreeBSD is 'a UNIX'.. They are all UNIX, but they are not all UNIX (TM).
You're speaking nonsense. You think that only people who bought rights from SCO can say their operating system is a UNIX?
You are confusing UNIX as trademarked noun, and UNIX as an adjective which can be applied to anything. The BSDs and Linux are both UNIX. Solaris is UNIX. SCO's UNIX is UNIX.
Uh, does everyone always quote salaries at net? No, salary is always quoted gross.
Everyone else has come out with the obvious 'but 100m would be nothing compared to their cash reserves' line.. but forgetting that, Gates doesn't seem to mind fines anyway. He just sees them as a way of getting away with stuff and paying it off.
If you read many of the Microsoft biographies, you'll read stuff talking about how Gates was heavily into speeding everywhere he went, and was constantly being fined and given tickets. He even ended up in jail for it, which is where the infamous Bill Gates in jail picture came from.
But who cares? When you're making massive bucks each month, is it worth a few hundred in fines to stop speeding all the time, if you're not going to end up in jail for a long haul? No. Same goes with this. Paying this fine is just a great way of getting the EU off his back without any hard work.