Okay, since you are young and stupid, let me clue you in.
Possession don't mean shit. They come and go. Your $4k in electronics? Don't fucking matter.
But insurance that for your items when you travel. Backup all fucking data.
Have a "care" package, like an old laptop, with current backups of your data, etc, and when you go on trips, package it up and give it to a family member. That way, if you get mugged, etc. You can have someone ship you you're "care" package, so you can resume your work.
Shit happens. You can't control that. You could travel, get the flu, pass out, and all your possession is gone. So plan for if that happens, so you can finish your work.
But honestly, if you have to come to slashdot to ask this question, there is no hope for you, imo.
No, same reason as before –poor people have to make false economies:
At the time of Men at Arms, Samuel Vimes earned thirty-eight dollars a month as a Captain of the Watch, plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots, the sort that would last years and years, cost fifty dollars. This was beyond his pocket and the most he could hope for was an affordable pair of boots costing ten dollars, which might with luck last a year or so before he would need to resort to makeshift cardboard insoles so as to prolong the moment of shelling out another ten dollars. Therefore over a period of ten years, he might have paid out a hundred dollars on boots, twice as much as the man who could afford fifty dollars up front ten years before. And he would still have wet feet. Without any special rancour, Vimes stretched this theory to explain why Sybil Ramkin lived twice as comfortably as he did by spending about half as much every month.
[Sir Terry Pratchett]
The only problem with the story is that if the man bought the $10 shoes, he could save up for the $50 shoes, so by the time his $10 shoes wore out, he could afford $50 shoes, and then save again for when he needed new shoes.
Yes, if he was rich, cool. But he's not, so he needs to learn to live within his means, smartly. Sort of like the rest of us poor people.
I think of those consoles as a dongle that lets you play the games. It's not like you don't know that you've got restrictions.
Besides, I got tired of buying a new video card every year just to keep up with the latest titles. I know for a fact that any console game will run on the console.
Spoken like a person who doesn't actually game and never actually plays them on his/her PC.
I was going to explain the folly of what you said, but decided not to. What would be the point? You don't know shit, you obviously don't play video games.
If you did, you'd understand the the video cards have been pretty much overpowered for 95% of the PC games that come out today, mainly since most of them are 360 Ports.
I'm a poor person, I can not afford a new card every year, let alone every 3 years, and I have no problem gaming at 1080p, max settings for 95% of the games that are out today, and that 5% that I can't max out on? Still look way better then the console versions of the game.
First off, Piracy never hurts movie sales. Why? Because Cam copies suck dog shit. They are very fucking dark, and look like shit. You remember them VCR days? And you'd get a copy of a copy, which was a copy of the original? And it would look like shit? That looks better then most cams.
At worse, you get someone who downloads a cam and decides they will wait for a DVD/BR of it.
TS copies (Telesync) are just a tab better, but still look like shit.
DVD Screeners, VOD rips, usually look fine, and these might cut into sales of DVD/BR's, but probably not that much. Usually the people who download this stuff isn't buying DVD/BR's anyways.
She was a teenager used to following orders by people in authority rather than questioning them and advocating for her own self-interests. In other words a model citizen.
While I oppose the kind of tax dodges that Apple and Microsoft are up to... I cannot say that any of the problems in this state would be that much better if Microsoft paid all the taxes possible here.
Our local government seems amazingly incompetent.
I have lived in Seattle my whole life (40 some years) and they have always been incompetent.
Leaders don't do what we vote on, and honestly, I haven't seen any difference between any of the mayors.
But i'm sure it's like that everywhere, since usually the people who want to be in politics are dumb ass butt lickers and suck ups. Or even worse, in it to make money for themselves.
For example, Let's look at the Seattle Sonics. Who you say? Exactly. We had a Pro basketball team. They wanted a new stadium, which they need. They are using the Arena (no idea who owns it and what it's called now, probably empty), which is old as sin, and in a part of seattle that sucks for events. See, the Seahawk's and the Mariner's got them a new stadium, so of course, the Sonics wanted one also.
Problem is, the sonics owner said he would sell the team if he couldn't get some new stadium loving. Seattle said, fuck you. So dude sold the team, and Seattle tried to make deals with the new owner to keep it in town, but everyone knew that dude was going to move them. Which he did.
Now Seattle is shopping around to get another pro ball team, but don't hold your fucking breath.
Now, i'm not a basketball fan, but I know stupid when I see it, and there's a lot of stupid running (and in) seattle.
If you let me choose any weapon for seriously ruining the day of a motorcyclist from the top of a building, I could think of nothing better than this one. In fact, I still find it hard to believe that the British were actually crazy enough to build such a thing.
Stop the motorcyclist and everyone around him. Yes, we saved the olympics and killed a terrorist, sorry about the 50 civilians that paid the price for the one "terrorist", who of course, will get charged with the murder of the 50 Civs that the missle killed.
As for a plane, I imagine the fallout of it being blown up over London will cause a nice amount of damage.
I can see the headlines now, "England blows up Olympics by stopping terrorism!"
Back when Amiga had no direction (lol, thats a joke, it never had direction), but I'm talking after it got sold a few times, instead of making a new godly expensive hardware, they should of converted the spirit and look and feel of Amiga's OS Workbench.
While the hardware would of been different, it could of been a clean start for Amiga, and provided a good desktop that might have been a uniting one. Of course, since it never happened, we will never know, but in my opinion, that is the direction Amiga should of went back in the 90's.
O.K. - this is a selfish request for info I'm too lazy to look up for myself...
What's the ETA and source for direct connect digital camera support? I know there's USB support through the standard Linux stack, but there's that tantalizing little camera port on the Pi that gets mentioned every so often.
Will it support multiple cameras?
Will it support higher bandwidth than USB?
Will it have any decent general purpose driver support?
Is it just a phantom port like the one on the Beagle/Panda boards where there's not actually any camera on the market that connects to it?
My future four-eyed autonomous rover wants to know!
It will have all that when you stop being lazy and start programming it.
Is this another version of the same issues people complained about when seeing their favorite newscaster (or "other" things) in HD?
Do we need some "masking" of the mundane reality of scenes (e.g., things "looking like sets") to sufficiently suspend disbelief?
The only reason I would think someone would complain about seeing their favorite newscaster in HD is because they newscaster has blackheads, bad skin, or something. At least that's the only bad thing I've noticed about HD, cept when dumb ass's stretch a SD to HD when the aspect ratio is different.
I'm curious to see how the 48 frames per sec looks myself. I've seen my share of BBC 70's shows that use video, but by the time it gets over here in the colonies, it's not 48 frames per sec, but 25. I have no way of knowing what the TV stations played it at.
I don't normally go to movie theatre's, but maybe will just so i can see it at 48 fps.
My question is this - which one, the murderer that converts or the buddhist that does not acknowledge Christ as his Lord and Savior, ends up in heaven?
None. Heaven is a made up place, no one goes there.
So it's not really a stretch to think that someone would be depraved enough to hide a bomb on their little daughter and sacrifice their mother in law. Same for e.g. the neighbor's little daughter and her grandmother. Illustrates nicely why racial profiling doesn't work, either.
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Well, i guess that's would be the same as "it's not a stretch that the 911 was an inside job."
People don't need an excuse to gripe, just an opportunity.
God tell me about it? Give anyone a chance and they start bitching about the crap people do, it's so fucked up. Swear to god people just love to bitch about every fucking thing, no one can keep their stupid mouth shut.
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Okay, since you are young and stupid, let me clue you in.
Possession don't mean shit. They come and go. Your $4k in electronics? Don't fucking matter.
But insurance that for your items when you travel. Backup all fucking data.
Have a "care" package, like an old laptop, with current backups of your data, etc, and when you go on trips, package it up and give it to a family member. That way, if you get mugged, etc. You can have someone ship you you're "care" package, so you can resume your work.
Shit happens. You can't control that. You could travel, get the flu, pass out, and all your possession is gone. So plan for if that happens, so you can finish your work.
But honestly, if you have to come to slashdot to ask this question, there is no hope for you, imo.
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Anyway, who's to say Jupiter (or at least its moons) are lifeless? :|]
God. He owns the copyright on Life and only allows it on Earth.
He fights Satan, the evil anti-copyright hippy with his zombie son.
Anyways, he only created Life 6k years ago, so obviously the science is all wrong.
Or use a DVD player that is not blessed by the DVD consortium.
Is it so hard to make a DVD player that plays the movie when you put it in?
A No it is not hard, just not allowed.
http://www.geexbox.org/ Play your movie. The menu and extras can be viewed if desired.
This is exactly the question I was wondering. But why is it not allowed.
Because the Government likes to punish it's law abiding citizens.
No, same reason as before –poor people have to make false economies:
At the time of Men at Arms, Samuel Vimes earned thirty-eight dollars a month as a Captain of the Watch, plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots, the sort that would last years and years, cost fifty dollars. This was beyond his pocket and the most he could hope for was an affordable pair of boots costing ten dollars, which might with luck last a year or so before he would need to resort to makeshift cardboard insoles so as to prolong the moment of shelling out another ten dollars.
Therefore over a period of ten years, he might have paid out a hundred dollars on boots, twice as much as the man who could afford fifty dollars up front ten years before. And he would still have wet feet.
Without any special rancour, Vimes stretched this theory to explain why Sybil Ramkin lived twice as comfortably as he did by spending about half as much every month.
[Sir Terry Pratchett]
The only problem with the story is that if the man bought the $10 shoes, he could save up for the $50 shoes, so by the time his $10 shoes wore out, he could afford $50 shoes, and then save again for when he needed new shoes.
Yes, if he was rich, cool. But he's not, so he needs to learn to live within his means, smartly. Sort of like the rest of us poor people.
I think of those consoles as a dongle that lets you play the games. It's not like you don't know that you've got restrictions.
Besides, I got tired of buying a new video card every year just to keep up with the latest titles. I know for a fact that any console game will run on the console.
Spoken like a person who doesn't actually game and never actually plays them on his/her PC.
I was going to explain the folly of what you said, but decided not to. What would be the point? You don't know shit, you obviously don't play video games.
If you did, you'd understand the the video cards have been pretty much overpowered for 95% of the PC games that come out today, mainly since most of them are 360 Ports.
I'm a poor person, I can not afford a new card every year, let alone every 3 years, and I have no problem gaming at 1080p, max settings for 95% of the games that are out today, and that 5% that I can't max out on? Still look way better then the console versions of the game.
First off, Piracy never hurts movie sales. Why? Because Cam copies suck dog shit. They are very fucking dark, and look like shit. You remember them VCR days? And you'd get a copy of a copy, which was a copy of the original? And it would look like shit? That looks better then most cams.
At worse, you get someone who downloads a cam and decides they will wait for a DVD/BR of it.
TS copies (Telesync) are just a tab better, but still look like shit.
DVD Screeners, VOD rips, usually look fine, and these might cut into sales of DVD/BR's, but probably not that much. Usually the people who download this stuff isn't buying DVD/BR's anyways.
I think the problem is Hollywood Accounting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Because I'm sure the Avengers isn't even going to break even in profits.
And that will be blamed on piracy.
The White House just said the war on terror is over.
We don't need the TSA screeners any more, send them home and stop the unnecessary abuse of U.S. citizens.
Ya, the War on Terrorism is over, but the War on Freedom is still going.
She was a teenager used to following orders by people in authority rather than questioning them and advocating for her own self-interests. In other words a model citizen.
I bet she learns to question authority now.
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Are people just too fucking lazy to even read before they open their big mouths?
Hey, that's a requirement for the TSA .!!!
"Can you read?"
"No"
"You're hired! Welcome to the TSA."
You should treat every website like it might not be around forever.
If you store your photo's on facebook and don't have backups if it elsewhere, then you deserve what you get, if Facebook closes down.
Nice idea to have an "Open Standard" to get our data, but I don't see this happening.
While I oppose the kind of tax dodges that Apple and Microsoft are up to ... I cannot say that any of the problems in this state would be that much better if Microsoft paid all the taxes possible here.
Our local government seems amazingly incompetent.
I have lived in Seattle my whole life (40 some years) and they have always been incompetent.
Leaders don't do what we vote on, and honestly, I haven't seen any difference between any of the mayors.
But i'm sure it's like that everywhere, since usually the people who want to be in politics are dumb ass butt lickers and suck ups. Or even worse, in it to make money for themselves.
For example, Let's look at the Seattle Sonics. Who you say? Exactly. We had a Pro basketball team. They wanted a new stadium, which they need. They are using the Arena (no idea who owns it and what it's called now, probably empty), which is old as sin, and in a part of seattle that sucks for events. See, the Seahawk's and the Mariner's got them a new stadium, so of course, the Sonics wanted one also.
Problem is, the sonics owner said he would sell the team if he couldn't get some new stadium loving. Seattle said, fuck you. So dude sold the team, and Seattle tried to make deals with the new owner to keep it in town, but everyone knew that dude was going to move them. Which he did.
Now Seattle is shopping around to get another pro ball team, but don't hold your fucking breath.
Now, i'm not a basketball fan, but I know stupid when I see it, and there's a lot of stupid running (and in) seattle.
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If you let me choose any weapon for seriously ruining the day of a motorcyclist from the top of a building, I could think of nothing better than this one. In fact, I still find it hard to believe that the British were actually crazy enough to build such a thing.
Stop the motorcyclist and everyone around him. Yes, we saved the olympics and killed a terrorist, sorry about the 50 civilians that paid the price for the one "terrorist", who of course, will get charged with the murder of the 50 Civs that the missle killed.
As for a plane, I imagine the fallout of it being blown up over London will cause a nice amount of damage.
I can see the headlines now, "England blows up Olympics by stopping terrorism!"
Capitalism called, citing prior art.
History called, has a patent on people not learning from the past, will see you in court.
... Oil and Coal, since there is NO way that can hurt the climate.
Back when Amiga had no direction (lol, thats a joke, it never had direction), but I'm talking after it got sold a few times, instead of making a new godly expensive hardware, they should of converted the spirit and look and feel of Amiga's OS Workbench.
While the hardware would of been different, it could of been a clean start for Amiga, and provided a good desktop that might have been a uniting one. Of course, since it never happened, we will never know, but in my opinion, that is the direction Amiga should of went back in the 90's.
O.K. - this is a selfish request for info I'm too lazy to look up for myself...
What's the ETA and source for direct connect digital camera support? I know there's USB support through the standard Linux stack, but there's that tantalizing little camera port on the Pi that gets mentioned every so often.
Will it support multiple cameras?
Will it support higher bandwidth than USB?
Will it have any decent general purpose driver support?
Is it just a phantom port like the one on the Beagle/Panda boards where there's not actually any camera on the market that connects to it?
My future four-eyed autonomous rover wants to know!
It will have all that when you stop being lazy and start programming it.
fucking slackers.
I can make the worlds best fucking computer from lego's.
I can do anything.
At least, I can say I can do anything.
So, until these people actually build the machine, they can fuck off, attention seeking glory hounds.
Obama ate a dog.
That's what happens when times are tough. You order take out. You think the meat is chicken, it's not.
Is this another version of the same issues people complained about when seeing their favorite newscaster (or "other" things) in HD?
Do we need some "masking" of the mundane reality of scenes (e.g., things "looking like sets") to sufficiently suspend disbelief?
The only reason I would think someone would complain about seeing their favorite newscaster in HD is because they newscaster has blackheads, bad skin, or something. At least that's the only bad thing I've noticed about HD, cept when dumb ass's stretch a SD to HD when the aspect ratio is different.
I'm curious to see how the 48 frames per sec looks myself. I've seen my share of BBC 70's shows that use video, but by the time it gets over here in the colonies, it's not 48 frames per sec, but 25. I have no way of knowing what the TV stations played it at.
I don't normally go to movie theatre's, but maybe will just so i can see it at 48 fps.
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My question is this - which one, the murderer that converts or the buddhist that does not acknowledge Christ as his Lord and Savior, ends up in heaven?
None. Heaven is a made up place, no one goes there.
Don't judge him. Those first born children of Egypt were asking for it.
Ya, my favorite one to point out is how he treated one of his favorites, Job.
Well, not exactly what you were asking for, but Hindawi packed the bomb into the carry-on bag of his pregnant Irish fiancee.
So it's not really a stretch to think that someone would be depraved enough to hide a bomb on their little daughter and sacrifice their mother in law. Same for e.g. the neighbor's little daughter and her grandmother. Illustrates nicely why racial profiling doesn't work, either.
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Well, i guess that's would be the same as "it's not a stretch that the 911 was an inside job."
I've been downloading ebooks for years. No drm, no hassle. Sure, these books were OCR'd and have mistakes sometimes, but I don't care.
Yet the publishers want DRM, want to charge the same prices for paper books, etc.
Fuck you, you want my money? Do the shit right.
People don't need an excuse to gripe, just an opportunity.
God tell me about it? Give anyone a chance and they start bitching about the crap people do, it's so fucked up. Swear to god people just love to bitch about every fucking thing, no one can keep their stupid mouth shut.
god damn bitchers...
Was out and about sunday night.
And I was geek enough to have noted the az/elevation at the time.
Azmith was 325 to 350 or so, and Elevation was 50 deg down to about 30 degrees.
It was losing rather large chunks midway through it's burn..very much not like your normal meteorite.
omg, your saw it and didn't record it with one of the million electronic devices that have a camera in it?