But for sakes of argument, lets just say 'unlocked' is a general term to use on a lot of things.
I have all my Iphone friends who *freak* out when you use the term unlock instead of jailbreak, its like take at easy you know what I mean. The term jailbroken got a lot of us by surprise, although most people were taken by surprise of how Apple would lock it down and create new terms
Interesting but I don't think that is the whole story. I don't know how it is the US's fault that the people were suffering and couldn't produce enough, also it's not Americas fault that people smuggle the wheat in from other countries.
Blame Columbia and Peru for outproducing them in coca or blame El Nino for affecting weather patters or the terrible topography for farming. The population is expanding and unfortunately we really should have given them birth control.
Coca ain't cutting it to keep their economy afloat and there was a huge crop infection that whiped out a lot there I remember at one time. Move the country to a better geography without so many mountains, unfortunately that's not possible so you have take advantage of these steep topography. But hey, the cocaine business is always booming with coca and if that's what you want for your citizens to grow than it is not going to be a promising future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Bolivia ------- Rice and grains Rice has become an increasingly popular crop in Bolivia. Eaten by people in the lowlands and valleys since the 1950s, rice became the focus of government import-substitution policies beginning in the 1960s. [2] In the late 1980s, the country was generally self-sufficient in rice production, some years importing and other years exporting. Bolivia's rice, however, was not of high quality by international standards, thus limiting export markets --------
Despite repeated attempts by the government's National Wheat Institute (Instituto Nacional del Trigo) to make the nation selfsufficient in wheat production, Bolivia produced only about 20 percent of the wheat that it consumed in the late 1980s. In 1988 about 88,000 hectares produced 60,000 tons of wheat and in the same year, 280,000 tons of wheat were imported. [2] In 1988 the United States Agency for International Development (AID) provided 180,000 tons of wheat through its Public Law 480 (PL-480) Food for Peace Program.[2] Western Europe and Canada operated programs similar to the AID program but on a smaller scale. Argentina provided wheat in exchange for Bolivian natural gas. Smuggled wheat flour from Peru and Argentina represented a serious threat to domestic wheat production.[2] In 1988 analysts estimated that 60,000 tons of smuggled wheat had entered Bolivia annually. Small traditional farmers in the highlands and large soybean farmers in Santa Cruz provided most of the country's 1988 wheat harvest, which was roughly equivalent to output in 1978, but only wheat from the Santa Cruz area was used for commercial milling. Analysts believed that wheat would produce higher yields when the proper tropical seeds, fertilizer, and irrigation methods were used. ----------------------
'raped their daughter' ok whatever you say to add a little drama to it
Also I didn't capitalize 'little' in 'little Havana' like you did, don't put words in my mouth. I used the term as a description of what Cuba would have been if they hadn't chose Fidel.
Also I dare you to go down to 'Little Havana' in Miama, Florida and tell all those old Cubans why you think Fidel is so great. I bet you will not walk away without a black eye or your head up your ass. My buddy dated a cuban girl and we went over there for a barbecue once, their family and grandfater hated Fidel to the heart.
What... As compared to when Fidel came into power and if you talk against him you get locked up or they throw you on a half sinking junk boat ejecting you from the island out to sea. Hopefully they float to America so they are their problem or maybe they just float out at sea to die.
haha are you kidding, are you really trying to defend a guy who disposes of people who talk against them by throwing them out to sea and hoping they are somebody else's problem.
In fact the infastructure that the mafia built up still lasts to these days and they use it
Pictures speak a thousand words compared to the crumbling and rusting that is Cuba today. The people are suffering and 38% of the Cuban youth have left he country. I have talked to ex-Cuban patriots and they do not admire what came with Fidel and the way communist corrupted that place, they are confused why people who have not been there or lived there defend them.
A lot of corruption went on back than, unfortunately the people believed Fidel's lies and false hopes of change that he was going to bring. Point still stands, times were better when the Mafia ran it. The mafia would have faded out anyways and the people could have actually made something of themselves, they chose the later worse of the choices of the never ending Castro empire.
Well the people got what they wanted Misery People disappearing Economy in crumbles No electricity for 23 hours of the day Food shortages Failing socialism WOOHOO GOOD TIMES!!
You can even watch a modern video of them walking down the streets of the crumbling of the country that was caused by Fidel, read the comments of ex-Cubans who say they used to live on those same blocks and how beautiful the good times were.
On what world do you spend most of your time on? Please take off the shades and stop turning a blind eye to the obvious stuff.
I am sure Fidels little brother will allow some authorized citizen to make an authorized comment on how good things are over there.
As you say "There is a reason..." Well there is a reason why the Cuban people are suffering *now* and don't give me the bull crap answer of the embargo, it's not our job to keep their economy afloat by tourism because they produce nothing else except misery and rubble.
Yeah, except 'Freedom of Speech' works in America and you can shout "I love SADDAM and HITLER" will not get you arrested or sent to Guantanamo. It happens all the time and I have hundreds of Youtube videos of people talking out against the American government.
Private militias all the time talk about uprising and revolutions in America, they are kept under a tab but not brought in to beat. You are lying so I don't even know why we are arguing about this, seems like you are trying to change the subject.
Also where did you get that he "was providing material means for people to rebel, overthrow, dissent, terrorise their legal government"
Please provide a link or some source besides your own hot air. Did you pass reading comprehension? "American citizen working as a contractor for the United States Agency for International Development"
Provide a link or quote where they say they said that or else you are to say the least, trolling a little bit or just blowing hot air over anger.
Luckily the people in Cuba are suffering right now with food shortages, power on for only 30 mins a day and their socialized farming economy falling apart; they had to end up falling back on the Capitalistic system for their farming to manage it right and actually be productive.
You can keep turning a blind eye to it and changing the subject, the point still stands this guy was a representitive with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
USA! USA! USA! (oh sorry, being patriotic I forgot that was against the rules(mod points) around here)
P.S.- I have volunteered overseas in Africa for 2 months when I was younger for a humanitarian mission, people in the world don't appreciate enough all the bags of rice with the USA logo over it does. I mean even private donations by Americans trump many governments in the world of what they donate.
I really don't know why Michael Moore got so much credit over Cuba's free health care system; their country is falling apart structually, industry is failing and their economic ways have even taken to capitalist style when he had to stick his foot in his mouth over the farming incident when socialism collapsed on their dream world.
Oh wait, it's Americas fault for the embargo and a man who stayed in power for 30+ years and than hands it off to his brother. As bad as it was with the Mafia running things in little Havana, living standards and economy was better than. Mafia did a better job than the 'Castro empire'.
If getting locked up for trying to show people the 'truth' and not a filtered censored version is a crime, than these people should be rewarded the humanitarian award.
The weak spineless cowards around here will claim that the same sentence would be handed to them if they tried that in America, except the argument doesn't work because it is really fundamental human rights at work. So I don't know why some around here try to justify it.
Yeah, but at least you can repair a cd with things like 'Dr CD and DVD Repair Device' unless the scratch is too deep. I have probably saved dozens of cd's back when I used them and many Xbox360 games it has been a savior.
I don't really know of any 'Dr Vinyl Repair'.
All I know is that in Southern California there was a little niche market for Vinyl records but that all comes from mostly the Hip-Hop/Rave scene people about 7 years ago, than the digital music came and most people were just downloading by than for all their hiphop/underground stuff. So I don't know why Slashdot all of a sudden cares about the Hip-hop scene because that's where 90+% of the records sales are.
I remember a concert where they had an album release party. The lead singer asks the crowd if they like the new songs and they should buy it, than he asks who already has it and about 35% of the crowd raised their hound shouting they had already pirated it. He kind of laughed and shook his head a little, but this was when Napster was coming towards the end.
I don't get all the articles praising Vinyl and the comeback it has been making for some reason the last year, put your money where your mouth is what the owner of a shop told me if you think it is making a comeback. Because right now he has been basically buying up other stores Vinyl records from stores that have gone the way of disco.
I coulda sworn we had burned most vinyl records in Chicago anyway.
lmao all those evil capital 'R' have ruined days for me, oh how I long to change them to lowercase of all priorities in life. All 3 people in the world are affected by this, come on seriously is that a real big priority?
Anyways there are plenty of programs to sort stuff out there and rename it, you got a commandline to find all duplicate.mp3 songs in a folder with 50,000 songs that can sort it in group by albums. All I gotta do is type 'file renamer freeware' in Google search and it will usually show me the most used/trusted programs for Windows, I don't know how changing whether its lower case or uppercase matters to anybody. Majority of people don't need to rename hundreds of files, so once again you can play the numbers game and play that minority crowd but it doesn't mean it is more efficient. ------------------ One of the descriptions of the dozens of polished programs "Flexible Renamer is a powerful file/folder renaming utility for advanced users. It offers a variety of renaming options, including options to remove numbers or strings, replace strings, insert numbers, translate letters, organize number values and more. The program supports Regular Expressions for advanced renaming operations, and offers extensive renaming options for audio files, images and other documents. You can use the data contained in information tags (ID3, EXIF, IPTC, DOC, HTML) tags to construct the new file names, allowing you to create meaningful file names for photos, MP3 files and other documents. Other features include instant file name preview, an option to create numbered folders and empty files and right-click integration with Windows Explorer" --------------------
I will take this program over any command line any day as it will be useful for me in the future as I can set the settings so it remembers next time, add to it the deep amount of options that are all presented to you in a nice beautiful GUI and saved to automatically handle it next time.
I work with AutoCAD all day long in my construction/engineering business, we have 2 old commandline guys here who used to be able to school me any day in the amount of work they could do but once AutoDesk figured out the commandline was the way of the past and started integrating more GUI features to their newer versions. It was game over for command line as using the GUI was faster, now AutoDesk in their next version will be integrating the Ribbon Bar.
You took the time to learn the command line, but maybe you should take the time to automate some of your stuff so you don't have to repeat such an exhaustive spread out combination of different keys just to accomplish that task.
I think FF and IE8 are both easy to change the default searches, not like one is harder than the other to use.
Basically click the little down arrow in the search and click 'manage search providers' , set Google as default and never worry about it again.
Also Open Office has switched between search providers installing default and looks like Yahoo has the bigger offer, I guess it depends on who offers them the biggest check for their 'open source' material. F'in tools, so much for open source and I cant remember the last time MS Office tried to install a bunch of toolbars/crapware.
I don't think they really care what Chicago does, the people have been violating their own human rights by killing each other for decades now in that city.
What are you expecting from the 'people' as most of the people with common sense or incentive to do something better with their lives have left their city long ago in the early 70's.
Have you seen what their city council does and how they act in some of the famous YouTube videos?
The people in these neighborhoods could care less, these people watch other kill their neighbors and are afraid to come out to report who the killer is.
Why not ban video recorders in the Police officers car than while were at it?
IE8 is a pretty damn 'critical security update' and provides a lot more security, not like the old 'drive by download' infections used to always get. But XP is probably more of a concern than IE or.NET framework.
FF has the same problem of wanting to change your default every little.1 update and they constantly release new revisions.
I am guessing you don't want to mention the mysterious update for some reason.
Here I will, it was probably IE updating to IE8. That is the only time it goes over your default stuff to get setup, IE8 keeps all your old settings if you want anyways.
Google has been pushing their toolbar now in every piece of software they distribute, what makes it worse is that it has the default button always selected.
Apple started doing it with quicktime and forcing Itunes onto you, they did it the worse for awhile there. You couldn't get quicktime separate from Itunes and they made you download it in a pack.
Sun does it with OpenOffice and their other stuff now.
Daemon Tools now has a default toolbar installed, what was funny with them is at first they used Google toolbar and than it looked like Yahoo offered them a bigger check so theirs was the default after awhile.
FireFox does it with theirs also, which is kind of annoying because they go through so many different versions unlike IE so you have to do the reinstalls and make sure you don't accidentally leave the default mark checked to override all your stuff.
MS does it also now with things like including the 'Live Essentials pack'
You can go through the entire sub from front to end. I have done this a couple times and take relatives down to it when they come in town, than you can go right next to the Queen Mary all here in Long Beach, CA.
Lots of ducking your head and pipes everywhere, a plumber would get a hard on walking through it all.
You just started ranting on and some gibberish on Americans.
What the hell does 'speeding on the autobahn' have to do with Hollywood and our perspective? Not really a priority in life to learn about the Autobahn, not like all of us have a car that can go over 110KmH or for that matter drive our own car across the ocean. Anyways just look up 'Autobahn accident' on Youtube and you will see dozens of videos of foreigner people and lots of British kids crashing their cars on the Autobahn because of too much speed. So I don't know what kind of distinction you are trying to draw between the two.
How is it Americans(Hollywoods) fault that we are not giving you the movies/music/etc for free and your creativity level is non-existent..
I can't help it that the Swedish people cannot make a good movie or music; instead of trying to think of new ways to ride on the Americans coat tail or to suck on the tit of Hollywood for their material. They should be working on ways to improve the film industry and improve the quality of the shows/movies.
Down the road is a dead end if you want to keep pirating and sucking off the tit of Hollywood for the rest of your life, better to just get some bigger priorities in life unless they are holding a gun to your head forcing you to pirate this material.
Combine all those systems together and you basically have a walking autonomous Terminator.
But yeah, we will always have the boot on the ground its just we will have more of a buffer zone between them for dangerous areas/situations. I am thinking soldiers deploying a huge cargo vehicle that has hundreds of bots, they pull up to a dangerous area or something the UAV has spotted and than they release the ground bots to search the area and identify targets.
Processors/computers and batteries are getting more efficient also and in this day and age in suicide bombers, it is not worth putting human skin up against somebody who is willing to blow themselves up over religion.
Vast majority of people are not upgrading and instead get new computers at very, very cheap rates.
In the time between XP and Win7 about how many upgrades have you purchased for the Apple? Because most people didn't upgrade to Vista, so.....
$39 here, $39 there and it all adds up.
Anyways, exactly what time do you waste on Windows as it is a very productive environment unlike Linux. So please don't lower the desktop Windows to the Linux level.
Anyways, my buddy had to get rid of his old Iphone and commit to a new 3G Iphone because Apple has got the contracts locked down.
Windows 7 is easy to use and maintain, although Mac's are easier but who can afford it these days in this economy.
"Hi my names Frank and I am addicted to Britney Spears songs and having unlimited downloads" Crowd : "HI FRANK!!"
*guy in the corner rocking back and forth nervously* Frank : "whose that guy?" Crowd : "oh that's Jim, ever since they closed down PirateBay he has never been the same" Frank : "my god, what have they done!!"
*guy in the corner signals for Frank to come to him* Frank : "hey whats up my names Frank" Shady guy: "shhh they're listening!!!!" Frank : "huh... Who?" Shady guy : " The R....I...i..i... i....A...." Jim : "AHHHH AHHHH AHHHH!!! DONT SAY IT!! NOOOOO"
Nurse : "DOCTOR!!! I need 2 minutes of USENET for him!!!" Doctor: " For gods sake woman get out of the way!!! This man needs unfiltered internet access!!!"
Yeah screw the article, here is a video and they speak a thousand words. Very cool to actually see the cable being pulled out and what the repeater looks like.
Yep, it was more of a people just didn't care about the environment and didn't realize the implications on humans/animals by dumping these chemicals.
Same thing happened in my town for the Saturn V rockets while at the development facilities in Huntington Beach, CA and Seal Beach, CA they had huge bins of DDT and Boric Acid that they would continuously overfill all the time. Well the spillover of the acid would just splash out the top and onto the exposed dirt ground, this was all done with residents fairly close and one of the biggest last remaining wetlands in California.
It was real nice for Boeing's profits and the war cause, but at risk of cutting corners. So now they have to spend several million dollar EPA project of slowly extracting the chemicals out of the ground and this happened all right next to Pacific Coast Highway.
I keep seeing all these posts playing the 'minority' crowd who do rare odd little things, all of a sudden everyone at Slashdot seems to be a hiker or in some rare spot where there is no coverage. I mean I feel for the people who live in the middle of nowhere Nebraska, but for 99% of the time I have to get through Los Angeles traffic like millions of others and not every American is traveling every other month to a foreign country. Businesses are not out to appeal to a small crowd or else they would be bankrupt.
I see this more as leading the way for other cell phones to provide built in GPS, I mean you cannot even get a cell phone that doesn't have a camera built into it and even the Ipod Nano's come with cameras. Phones in the future should come with everything built into it, including GPS.
As for taking it mobile, I bought a nice $9 solar charger that can charge my cellphone/ipod/garmin and supposedly it can run a laptop but I am skeptical of hooking it up. Not Googles problem that you don't have access to power for a couple days, call in the National Guard. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320434382609&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
I did something real corny by attaching the solar unit to the top of my hat and the usb cord down into my backpack to run my bulky Garmin C550. I can listen to music from it and it announces directions when I am mountain biking or hiking in Yosemite. I recently took it with me on my Yosemite trip and it followed me on all the trails, even up to half dome and all the way around to Glacier Point.
I am surprised this wasn't published on Slashdot, but I remember reading a couple weeks back that for the first time afternoon(home users) use overtook business traffic, something to do with more people having their own computers now and other things.
Slashdot Mirror
But for sakes of argument, lets just say 'unlocked' is a general term to use on a lot of things.
I have all my Iphone friends who *freak* out when you use the term unlock instead of jailbreak, its like take at easy you know what I mean.
The term jailbroken got a lot of us by surprise, although most people were taken by surprise of how Apple would lock it down and create new terms
Interesting but I don't think that is the whole story.
I don't know how it is the US's fault that the people were suffering and couldn't produce enough, also it's not Americas fault that people smuggle the wheat in from other countries.
Blame Columbia and Peru for outproducing them in coca or blame El Nino for affecting weather patters or the terrible topography for farming. The population is expanding and unfortunately we really should have given them birth control.
Coca ain't cutting it to keep their economy afloat and there was a huge crop infection that whiped out a lot there I remember at one time. Move the country to a better geography without so many mountains, unfortunately that's not possible so you have take advantage of these steep topography.
But hey, the cocaine business is always booming with coca and if that's what you want for your citizens to grow than it is not going to be a promising future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Bolivia
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Rice and grains
Rice has become an increasingly popular crop in Bolivia. Eaten by people in the lowlands and valleys since the 1950s, rice became the focus of government import-substitution policies beginning in the 1960s.
[2] In the late 1980s, the country was generally self-sufficient in rice production, some years importing and other years exporting. Bolivia's rice, however, was not of high quality by international standards, thus limiting export markets
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Despite repeated attempts by the government's National Wheat Institute (Instituto Nacional del Trigo) to make the nation selfsufficient in wheat production, Bolivia produced only about 20 percent of the wheat that it consumed in the late 1980s.
In 1988 about 88,000 hectares produced 60,000 tons of wheat and in the same year, 280,000 tons of wheat were imported.
[2] In 1988 the United States Agency for International Development (AID) provided 180,000 tons of wheat through its Public Law 480 (PL-480) Food for Peace Program.[2] Western Europe and Canada operated programs similar to the AID program but on a smaller scale. Argentina provided wheat in exchange for Bolivian natural gas.
Smuggled wheat flour from Peru and Argentina represented a serious threat to domestic wheat production.[2] In 1988 analysts estimated that 60,000 tons of smuggled wheat had entered Bolivia annually. Small traditional farmers in the highlands and large soybean farmers in Santa Cruz provided most of the country's 1988 wheat harvest, which was roughly equivalent to output in 1978, but only wheat from the Santa Cruz area was used for commercial milling. Analysts believed that wheat would produce higher yields when the proper tropical seeds, fertilizer, and irrigation methods were used.
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'raped their daughter' ok whatever you say to add a little drama to it
Also I didn't capitalize 'little' in 'little Havana' like you did, don't put words in my mouth. I used the term as a description of what Cuba would have been if they hadn't chose Fidel.
Also I dare you to go down to 'Little Havana' in Miama, Florida and tell all those old Cubans why you think Fidel is so great. I bet you will not walk away without a black eye or your head up your ass. My buddy dated a cuban girl and we went over there for a barbecue once, their family and grandfater hated Fidel to the heart.
What... As compared to when Fidel came into power and if you talk against him you get locked up or they throw you on a half sinking junk boat ejecting you from the island out to sea. Hopefully they float to America so they are their problem or maybe they just float out at sea to die.
haha are you kidding, are you really trying to defend a guy who disposes of people who talk against them by throwing them out to sea and hoping they are somebody else's problem.
In fact the infastructure that the mafia built up still lasts to these days and they use it
Pictures speak a thousand words compared to the crumbling and rusting that is Cuba today. The people are suffering and 38% of the Cuban youth have left he country. I have talked to ex-Cuban patriots and they do not admire what came with Fidel and the way communist corrupted that place, they are confused why people who have not been there or lived there defend them.
1950's Havana, Cuba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xShhFCoj_E&feature=related
A lot of corruption went on back than, unfortunately the people believed Fidel's lies and false hopes of change that he was going to bring.
Point still stands, times were better when the Mafia ran it. The mafia would have faded out anyways and the people could have actually made something of themselves, they chose the later worse of the choices of the never ending Castro empire.
Well the people got what they wanted
Misery
People disappearing
Economy in crumbles
No electricity for 23 hours of the day
Food shortages
Failing socialism
WOOHOO GOOD TIMES!!
You can even watch a modern video of them walking down the streets of the crumbling of the country that was caused by Fidel, read the comments of ex-Cubans who say they used to live on those same blocks and how beautiful the good times were.
A Walk in Havana, Cuba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrxhRUMr1a4
On what world do you spend most of your time on?
Please take off the shades and stop turning a blind eye to the obvious stuff.
I am sure Fidels little brother will allow some authorized citizen to make an authorized comment on how good things are over there.
As you say "There is a reason..."
Well there is a reason why the Cuban people are suffering *now* and don't give me the bull crap answer of the embargo, it's not our job to keep their economy afloat by tourism because they produce nothing else except misery and rubble.
On what world do you spend most of your time on?
Yeah, except 'Freedom of Speech' works in America and you can shout "I love SADDAM and HITLER" will not get you arrested or sent to Guantanamo. It happens all the time and I have hundreds of Youtube videos of people talking out against the American government.
Private militias all the time talk about uprising and revolutions in America, they are kept under a tab but not brought in to beat. You are lying so I don't even know why we are arguing about this, seems like you are trying to change the subject.
Also where did you get that he "was providing material means for people to rebel, overthrow, dissent, terrorise their legal government"
Please provide a link or some source besides your own hot air.
Did you pass reading comprehension?
"American citizen working as a contractor for the United States Agency for International Development"
Provide a link or quote where they say they said that or else you are to say the least, trolling a little bit or just blowing hot air over anger.
Luckily the people in Cuba are suffering right now with food shortages, power on for only 30 mins a day and their socialized farming economy falling apart; they had to end up falling back on the Capitalistic system for their farming to manage it right and actually be productive.
You can keep turning a blind eye to it and changing the subject, the point still stands this guy was a representitive with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
USA! USA! USA! (oh sorry, being patriotic I forgot that was against the rules(mod points) around here)
www.usaid.gov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
P.S.- I have volunteered overseas in Africa for 2 months when I was younger for a humanitarian mission, people in the world don't appreciate enough all the bags of rice with the USA logo over it does. I mean even private donations by Americans trump many governments in the world of what they donate.
I really don't know why Michael Moore got so much credit over Cuba's free health care system; their country is falling apart structually, industry is failing and their economic ways have even taken to capitalist style when he had to stick his foot in his mouth over the farming incident when socialism collapsed on their dream world.
Oh wait, it's Americas fault for the embargo and a man who stayed in power for 30+ years and than hands it off to his brother. As bad as it was with the Mafia running things in little Havana, living standards and economy was better than. Mafia did a better job than the 'Castro empire'.
If getting locked up for trying to show people the 'truth' and not a filtered censored version is a crime, than these people should be rewarded the humanitarian award.
The weak spineless cowards around here will claim that the same sentence would be handed to them if they tried that in America, except the argument doesn't work because it is really fundamental human rights at work. So I don't know why some around here try to justify it.
Were the people criminals who hide Anne Frank?
Yeah, but at least you can repair a cd with things like 'Dr CD and DVD Repair Device' unless the scratch is too deep. I have probably saved dozens of cd's back when I used them and many Xbox360 games it has been a savior.
I don't really know of any 'Dr Vinyl Repair'.
All I know is that in Southern California there was a little niche market for Vinyl records but that all comes from mostly the Hip-Hop/Rave scene people about 7 years ago, than the digital music came and most people were just downloading by than for all their hiphop/underground stuff. So I don't know why Slashdot all of a sudden cares about the Hip-hop scene because that's where 90+% of the records sales are.
I remember a concert where they had an album release party. The lead singer asks the crowd if they like the new songs and they should buy it, than he asks who already has it and about 35% of the crowd raised their hound shouting they had already pirated it. He kind of laughed and shook his head a little, but this was when Napster was coming towards the end.
I don't get all the articles praising Vinyl and the comeback it has been making for some reason the last year, put your money where your mouth is what the owner of a shop told me if you think it is making a comeback. Because right now he has been basically buying up other stores Vinyl records from stores that have gone the way of disco.
I coulda sworn we had burned most vinyl records in Chicago anyway.
1979 Disco Demolition Night, Local News Coverage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpQfCcsqQ0E
Hmm I wonder why they didn't mention Apple....
lmao all those evil capital 'R' have ruined days for me, oh how I long to change them to lowercase of all priorities in life. All 3 people in the world are affected by this, come on seriously is that a real big priority?
Anyways there are plenty of programs to sort stuff out there and rename it, you got a commandline to find all duplicate .mp3 songs in a folder with 50,000 songs that can sort it in group by albums.
All I gotta do is type 'file renamer freeware' in Google search and it will usually show me the most used/trusted programs for Windows, I don't know how changing whether its lower case or uppercase matters to anybody. Majority of people don't need to rename hundreds of files, so once again you can play the numbers game and play that minority crowd but it doesn't mean it is more efficient.
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One of the descriptions of the dozens of polished programs
"Flexible Renamer is a powerful file/folder renaming utility for advanced users. It offers a variety of renaming options, including options to remove numbers or strings, replace strings, insert numbers, translate letters, organize number values and more. The program supports Regular Expressions for advanced renaming operations, and offers extensive renaming options for audio files, images and other documents. You can use the data contained in information tags (ID3, EXIF, IPTC, DOC, HTML) tags to construct the new file names, allowing you to create meaningful file names for photos, MP3 files and other documents. Other features include instant file name preview, an option to create numbered folders and empty files and right-click integration with Windows Explorer"
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I will take this program over any command line any day as it will be useful for me in the future as I can set the settings so it remembers next time, add to it the deep amount of options that are all presented to you in a nice beautiful GUI and saved to automatically handle it next time.
I work with AutoCAD all day long in my construction/engineering business, we have 2 old commandline guys here who used to be able to school me any day in the amount of work they could do but once AutoDesk figured out the commandline was the way of the past and started integrating more GUI features to their newer versions. It was game over for command line as using the GUI was faster, now AutoDesk in their next version will be integrating the Ribbon Bar.
You took the time to learn the command line, but maybe you should take the time to automate some of your stuff so you don't have to repeat such an exhaustive spread out combination of different keys just to accomplish that task.
So Google buys it and they become another product of theirs
I think FF and IE8 are both easy to change the default searches, not like one is harder than the other to use.
Basically click the little down arrow in the search and click 'manage search providers' , set Google as default and never worry about it again.
Also Open Office has switched between search providers installing default and looks like Yahoo has the bigger offer, I guess it depends on who offers them the biggest check for their 'open source' material. F'in tools, so much for open source and I cant remember the last time MS Office tried to install a bunch of toolbars/crapware.
I don't think they really care what Chicago does, the people have been violating their own human rights by killing each other for decades now in that city.
What are you expecting from the 'people' as most of the people with common sense or incentive to do something better with their lives have left their city long ago in the early 70's.
Have you seen what their city council does and how they act in some of the famous YouTube videos?
The people in these neighborhoods could care less, these people watch other kill their neighbors and are afraid to come out to report who the killer is.
Why not ban video recorders in the Police officers car than while were at it?
IE8 is a pretty damn 'critical security update' and provides a lot more security, not like the old 'drive by download' infections used to always get. But XP is probably more of a concern than IE or .NET framework.
FF has the same problem of wanting to change your default every little .1 update and they constantly release new revisions.
I am guessing you don't want to mention the mysterious update for some reason.
Here I will, it was probably IE updating to IE8. That is the only time it goes over your default stuff to get setup, IE8 keeps all your old settings if you want anyways.
Google has been pushing their toolbar now in every piece of software they distribute, what makes it worse is that it has the default button always selected.
Apple started doing it with quicktime and forcing Itunes onto you, they did it the worse for awhile there. You couldn't get quicktime separate from Itunes and they made you download it in a pack.
Sun does it with OpenOffice and their other stuff now.
Daemon Tools now has a default toolbar installed, what was funny with them is at first they used Google toolbar and than it looked like Yahoo offered them a bigger check so theirs was the default after awhile.
FireFox does it with theirs also, which is kind of annoying because they go through so many different versions unlike IE so you have to do the reinstalls and make sure you don't accidentally leave the default mark checked to override all your stuff.
MS does it also now with things like including the 'Live Essentials pack'
TraumaCure WoundStat 3D Animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G7W2_YCsWg
Apligraf featured at St. Francis Wound Care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Zd5_Eiqkw
Regenerative Medicine: Re-Growing Body Parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwcT1ViM-hw&feature=related
Now for the creepy stuff
Battlefield Surgery 2025 part 1/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4wjAlprgBc&feature=related
Quikclot Combat Gauze training
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3TUKKx0cus&feature=related
Police Shoot in Legs and Beat Up Deranged Man -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d6_1258056693
http://www.queenmary.com/index.php?page=scorpioninformation
You can go through the entire sub from front to end.
I have done this a couple times and take relatives down to it when they come in town, than you can go right next to the Queen Mary all here in Long Beach, CA.
Lots of ducking your head and pipes everywhere, a plumber would get a hard on walking through it all.
What?
You just started ranting on and some gibberish on Americans.
What the hell does 'speeding on the autobahn' have to do with Hollywood and our perspective?
Not really a priority in life to learn about the Autobahn, not like all of us have a car that can go over 110KmH or for that matter drive our own car across the ocean. Anyways just look up 'Autobahn accident' on Youtube and you will see dozens of videos of foreigner people and lots of British kids crashing their cars on the Autobahn because of too much speed. So I don't know what kind of distinction you are trying to draw between the two.
How is it Americans(Hollywoods) fault that we are not giving you the movies/music/etc for free and your creativity level is non-existent..
I can't help it that the Swedish people cannot make a good movie or music; instead of trying to think of new ways to ride on the Americans coat tail or to suck on the tit of Hollywood for their material. They should be working on ways to improve the film industry and improve the quality of the shows/movies.
Down the road is a dead end if you want to keep pirating and sucking off the tit of Hollywood for the rest of your life, better to just get some bigger priorities in life unless they are holding a gun to your head forcing you to pirate this material.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=90c_1255824371
That video should answer a lot of your stuff of where the future is gonna be, not exactly as dumb as a 'moth'.
You will basically have warehouses filled with soldiers who are all staring at screens controlling hundreds of UAV's/UGV/Warbots.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d50_1250532556
Army's Mini-Drone Swarm
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=935_1247468328
UAV & UGV Collaborative Mission
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd1_1247371840
Warbots...the talon and the gladiator
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ed4_1247371300
Combine all those systems together and you basically have a walking autonomous Terminator.
But yeah, we will always have the boot on the ground its just we will have more of a buffer zone between them for dangerous areas/situations. I am thinking soldiers deploying a huge cargo vehicle that has hundreds of bots, they pull up to a dangerous area or something the UAV has spotted and than they release the ground bots to search the area and identify targets.
Processors/computers and batteries are getting more efficient also and in this day and age in suicide bombers, it is not worth putting human skin up against somebody who is willing to blow themselves up over religion.
"a bunch of windows"
how many Windows do you run?
Basically theres XP(dying), Vista and Win7.
Vast majority of people are not upgrading and instead get new computers at very, very cheap rates.
In the time between XP and Win7 about how many upgrades have you purchased for the Apple? Because most people didn't upgrade to Vista, so.....
$39 here, $39 there and it all adds up.
Anyways, exactly what time do you waste on Windows as it is a very productive environment unlike Linux. So please don't lower the desktop Windows to the Linux level.
Anyways, my buddy had to get rid of his old Iphone and commit to a new 3G Iphone because Apple has got the contracts locked down.
Windows 7 is easy to use and maintain, although Mac's are easier but who can afford it these days in this economy.
Sucks to be poor.
"Hi my names Frank and I am addicted to Britney Spears songs and having unlimited downloads"
Crowd : "HI FRANK!!"
*guy in the corner rocking back and forth nervously*
Frank : "whose that guy?"
Crowd : "oh that's Jim, ever since they closed down PirateBay he has never been the same"
Frank : "my god, what have they done!!"
*guy in the corner signals for Frank to come to him*
Frank : "hey whats up my names Frank"
Shady guy: "shhh they're listening!!!!"
Frank : "huh... Who?"
Shady guy : " The R....I...i..i... i....A...."
Jim : "AHHHH AHHHH AHHHH!!! DONT SAY IT!! NOOOOO"
Nurse : "DOCTOR!!! I need 2 minutes of USENET for him!!!"
Doctor: " For gods sake woman get out of the way!!! This man needs unfiltered internet access!!!"
Yeah screw the article, here is a video and they speak a thousand words. Very cool to actually see the cable being pulled out and what the repeater looks like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOyKdJWPlZY
SEACOM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgKezSWuAGE&feature=related
Construction of East Africa's undersea fibre optics cable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW0Fp-bbKWI
Alaska Communications Systems Undersea Fiber Optic Projects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJt0sh1d-H0
Financially, working at night time is the cheapest and least burden on traffic.
Yep, it was more of a people just didn't care about the environment and didn't realize the implications on humans/animals by dumping these chemicals.
Same thing happened in my town for the Saturn V rockets while at the development facilities in Huntington Beach, CA and Seal Beach, CA they had huge bins of DDT and Boric Acid that they would continuously overfill all the time. Well the spillover of the acid would just splash out the top and onto the exposed dirt ground, this was all done with residents fairly close and one of the biggest last remaining wetlands in California.
It was real nice for Boeing's profits and the war cause, but at risk of cutting corners. So now they have to spend several million dollar EPA project of slowly extracting the chemicals out of the ground and this happened all right next to Pacific Coast Highway.
Here it is and it was $50 million dollars so far.
$50 Million to Clean Up DDT Off Southern California Coast
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/23429/
I keep seeing all these posts playing the 'minority' crowd who do rare odd little things, all of a sudden everyone at Slashdot seems to be a hiker or in some rare spot where there is no coverage. I mean I feel for the people who live in the middle of nowhere Nebraska, but for 99% of the time I have to get through Los Angeles traffic like millions of others and not every American is traveling every other month to a foreign country.
Businesses are not out to appeal to a small crowd or else they would be bankrupt.
I see this more as leading the way for other cell phones to provide built in GPS, I mean you cannot even get a cell phone that doesn't have a camera built into it and even the Ipod Nano's come with cameras. Phones in the future should come with everything built into it, including GPS.
As for taking it mobile, I bought a nice $9 solar charger that can charge my cellphone/ipod/garmin and supposedly it can run a laptop but I am skeptical of hooking it up. Not Googles problem that you don't have access to power for a couple days, call in the National Guard.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320434382609&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
I did something real corny by attaching the solar unit to the top of my hat and the usb cord down into my backpack to run my bulky Garmin C550. I can listen to music from it and it announces directions when I am mountain biking or hiking in Yosemite.
I recently took it with me on my Yosemite trip and it followed me on all the trails, even up to half dome and all the way around to Glacier Point.
I am surprised this wasn't published on Slashdot, but I remember reading a couple weeks back that for the first time afternoon(home users) use overtook business traffic, something to do with more people having their own computers now and other things.