Gates has had a number of exceptional sound bytes over the years.... Positive ones. Balmer, not so much.
Balmer's had sound bytes over the years. The problem is they're all moded flamebait and funny by the computing industry, and Gates's are insightful and interesting.
I know you mean in the legal sense, but in the spirit of the law, since the apology is [i]from[/i] him [i]to[/i] everyone on the internet, I guess that means the apology belongs to YOU.
A better question would be, if Draft 2.0 is guaranteed to be compliant with the final, what does that mean for the gear certified with earlier drafts? Is it not guaranteed as well?
AT&T is evil, and is a willing participant with the government factions that want to throw us, head first, into an Orwellian nightmare. Furthermore, if you continue to do business with them *you* are a willing participant, and should grow some balls.
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Turn off your DSL and switch to cable. Turn off your long-distance service and get VOIP or an RBOC's POTS unlimited plan. RBOCs are still out there; there just hurting for business.
I don't think you know what RBOC means. You're contradicting yourself in your instructions.
Mean time between failures is not a hard perdiction of when things will break.
True, but even if the drive lasts half as long as the manufacturer's MTBF claim, your data will still outlive you. . . ....wow, why do I feel the urge to say that with a Russian accent.
As a UK resident, all I can say is "that is what we have come to expect from this government". It seems they thought George Orwell's 1984 was a manual on how to govern.
No, this is more like Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale. People who found themselves wanting to escape the new Theocracy suddenly found it difficult to do so.
Someone please establish a connection between NASA getting someone to the Moon and MySpace verifying users' authenticy.
They both can be faked in highly convincing manners? MySpace could start verifying with credit card info, which one can obtain by going through Mom's purse. And NASA can go to a remote desert location, add a mat painting, let the motion blur of a low speed camera, "signal interference", and "audio static" make it all more authentic.
However, about as technology progresses, it may become easier to scrub the original tapes of the footage and discover the fraud, so they conveniently "lose" the original footage so they can make new "masters" with the same tech so that are harder to detect.
I don't believe the moon landing didn't happen, I'm just playing Devil's advocate.
I didn't see a motorized door over the hole the beer is raised out of the fridge through. Wouldn't this waste a lot of power keeping the fridge cold and cause it to frost up really fast?
Huh? Ever heard of that dial thing on your radio? You don't need the government to step in and change the programming, just put down the Slurpee for a second and change the station.
You're right. We'll just turn to the non-Clear Channel station. Oh, wait. There isn't one.
There's a CEO with vision for you. Best PC of the late 20th century. Would've been best all time except for getting pwned by the mid-16th century's "Conquistador 200."
Actually, I hear their folly was not expecting the Spanish Inquisition 5 to appear on the market when it did. Commodore claimed their marketshare loss was only a flesh wound, but...
Though, technically speaking, it's still not true--it's like saying DVDs store video in AVI format.
I think it was a common mistake among Mac users - many years ago. Likewise many PC users thought that WAV files were the format of Audio CDs. I did it myself when I first started burning audio CDs from MP3's (back in '99). I think the confusion was caused by early cd burning software (including Toast) reporting that it was "Burning SONG.AIF..." to the CD while it was writing, when it was really reading SONG.AIF and then burning the PCM audio stream inside it.
I have no idea what AAIF means. Redbook CD Audio is just a set of raw PCM streams.
I couldn't tell if you were joking at the author's lack of technical understanding about audio formats or if you were serious. He was referring to AIFF, which is just a container format for PCM audio. It's like the Macintosh equivalent of WAV files, and is often an intermediary step in creating an actual Audio CD from a set of music files in compressed format. It was a pain in "the olden days" as one had to have a CD's worth of free space on their hard drive to burn an audio CD, because the burning software had to transcode the MP3s into AIFFs before it could burn them. I think nowadays that transcoding is done in real time in memory while the disc is being written to though.
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Balmer's had sound bytes over the years. The problem is they're all moded flamebait and funny by the computing industry, and Gates's are insightful and interesting.
Wow, I feel lazy now. I didn't even check to see how many pages it was.
I think its more like the media is the car, the State of Fear is powered by them, the government is the driver.
and the rest of us are being taken for a ride.
I know you mean in the legal sense, but in the spirit of the law, since the apology is [i]from[/i] him [i]to[/i] everyone on the internet, I guess that means the apology belongs to YOU.
The current bottom of the page tagline is rather amusing...
"Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others with a fountain pen. -- Woodie Guthrie"
A better question would be, if Draft 2.0 is guaranteed to be compliant with the final, what does that mean for the gear certified with earlier drafts? Is it not guaranteed as well?
I don't think you know what RBOC means. You're contradicting yourself in your instructions.
Mine didn't, but it read the reply as:
"Dear Dubya, its so double-plus good the criminal escapes all."
True, but even if the drive lasts half as long as the manufacturer's MTBF claim, your data will still outlive you.
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I read this story earlier and had a very insightful comment thought up I was going to post, but now I can't seem to remember it...
No, this is more like Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale. People who found themselves wanting to escape the new Theocracy suddenly found it difficult to do so.
No, I think this would be neurosurgeon humor.
They both can be faked in highly convincing manners? MySpace could start verifying with credit card info, which one can obtain by going through Mom's purse. And NASA can go to a remote desert location, add a mat painting, let the motion blur of a low speed camera, "signal interference", and "audio static" make it all more authentic.
However, about as technology progresses, it may become easier to scrub the original tapes of the footage and discover the fraud, so they conveniently "lose" the original footage so they can make new "masters" with the same tech so that are harder to detect.
I don't believe the moon landing didn't happen, I'm just playing Devil's advocate.
I didn't see a motorized door over the hole the beer is raised out of the fridge through. Wouldn't this waste a lot of power keeping the fridge cold and cause it to frost up really fast?
They were looking to a new cost efficient low orbit altitude vehicle with an environmental appeal.
You're right. We'll just turn to the non-Clear Channel station. Oh, wait. There isn't one.
Actually, I hear their folly was not expecting the Spanish Inquisition 5 to appear on the market when it did. Commodore claimed their marketshare loss was only a flesh wound, but...
Hey! Just like voting in the election!
Then make sure not to point it at Uranus.
"Jimmy clean your room! Its disgusting!"
"What! And lose all my data!?"
Too bad its not oil. We'd have the government rushing to develop a Journey-to-the-Center-of-the-Earth type project to investigate.
No, because China seems to have no problem with people copying DVDs.
Because the shuttle that came with it is called the Powerball 3.
I think it was a common mistake among Mac users - many years ago. Likewise many PC users thought that WAV files were the format of Audio CDs. I did it myself when I first started burning audio CDs from MP3's (back in '99). I think the confusion was caused by early cd burning software (including Toast) reporting that it was "Burning SONG.AIF..." to the CD while it was writing, when it was really reading SONG.AIF and then burning the PCM audio stream inside it.
I couldn't tell if you were joking at the author's lack of technical understanding about audio formats or if you were serious. He was referring to AIFF, which is just a container format for PCM audio. It's like the Macintosh equivalent of WAV files, and is often an intermediary step in creating an actual Audio CD from a set of music files in compressed format. It was a pain in "the olden days" as one had to have a CD's worth of free space on their hard drive to burn an audio CD, because the burning software had to transcode the MP3s into AIFFs before it could burn them. I think nowadays that transcoding is done in real time in memory while the disc is being written to though.