Jiga = giga... Back in the old days before processors and memory had the "giga" term that we've come to know and love, some people pronounced the "g" softly, like "j" as in "george", and these words were featured in movies like Back to the Future.
I can't believe you people. You either thought I was joking or flamebaiting? I'm completely serious. You lose no freedoms being stopped by a police officer, to see what's going on. If he was going through your stuff, that's one thing, but It's perfectly free, and 100% American for the police to ask people what they're doing, and I for one am glad they do it. If you were walking instead of traveling in a car, and a cop politely asked what you were doing, would you see that as a violation of your freedoms? It's the same in a car, you just have to pull over so you can chat. Jeez you guys are uptight.
That's what police are supposed to do, and I for one am glad they do it. I'll gladly put up with 1-2 minutes of my time for the officer to discover my car isn't stolen, and I'm not carrying drugs/weapons if he catches the next guy who is. I don't see it as an invasion of any rights or privacy of mine either, if you're thinking that. It's public roads, and I'm glad they're policed properly. I only wish that it would stop there, and not continue onto other things that I fear it's headed for (manditory ID checks, passports state-to-state, etc).
I don't blame them at all. It's a stupid law, knee-jerk reaction to something that's perfectly fair; I blame the stupid politicians and hippies that brought about this law. To compare to the wild west days, say that I bought all the property along the coast of california for dirt cheap when it was first claimed by the US. If there was a law passed that said you can't buy land like that, that would be retarded. You could say it was greed driving it, but I say it's smart thinking. If someone offered me $500 for an acre of seafront land, it would be retarded to sue me if I accepted, saying that I was only squatting on that land, waiting to sell it at a higher price; no shit. That's capitalism.
Yeah, that's why I had the asterisk. If the domain was really high-profile, it might be cheaper in legal fees than to buy it outright. I was more just curious about the stupidity of the damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't law (damned if you actually _did_ want to sell the URL, and weren't just squatting).
What happens if I actually wanted to sell the domain? If say; they offered me $500 for the domain, I would accept the offer. Could they then turn around (again, if they wanted to be bastardly) and slap me with a "cybersquatting" suit, and try to get the domain for *free, because I accepted their offer?
*free barring legal fees, which I'm ignoring just for the sake of argument.
I have a question about the "cybersquatting" portion of the article. From what I understand, they can "get" you legally if you offer to sell the domain.
I own cantarafamily.net. Say hypothetically, there was a doctor's office called "Cantara Family Medicine" and they wanted to buy my domain. Could I be brought up on "cybersquatting" charges if I offer to sell it to them (if the company wanted to be bastardly)? I would offer to sell it to something legitimate if it was a reasonable offer. All I have at that domain is just my family photos 'n stuff. Would I be SOL if they decided to sue me?
No big deal:) If she can't put up with me spending time doing fun things I like, she can go suck eggs.
I wouldn't want to date someone like that:D
Honestly though, the girl and I do spend a ton of time together, and watching TV just isn't on the list of stuff we want to do. We're well suited for eachother.
I've actually been out of school for almost 2 years now (I was young for my class):) Still haven't had a TV. I still don't have enough time in the day to get stuff done. I'm either hanging out with the girl, or chatting online, or listening to music, or working on my car, or playing with electronics. I don't know where I could fit TV into it. If I'm staying over the girl's house for the night, I will squeeze in Futurama from 11:30 to midnight, but that's cutting pretty steeply into my already trimmed sleep schedule.
The MS Game "Allegiance" was actually 100% open-sourced by MS a while ago, just for your info too. I know it's not a document format, but MS (especially the developers section) does open-source stuff on occasion.
Nope. I don't own one single DVD. I don't, and never have owned a DVD player, and probably never will. I also don't have a TV or a cellphone. Good TV/Movies are so few and far between that it's not worth it to get either.
Using Eagle is the sign of I don't pirate things, and need a free tool to do small PCBs with that works under Linux and isn't "PCB" which sucks. Eagle does just fine for hobby work. I don't design PCBs at work, but I am an EE.
I have no other choice, because the lemming-like "masses" have already been duped into buying all DRMed stuff, and buying/selling non-DRMed hardware is illegal, and comes with a 30 year jail sentence, and I've become nothing but a hollow shell of an old man/corporate consumer.
I don't have the details handy, but running a swap, even if RAM is bountiful and plenty is always a good idea. It's something to the effect of the system really likes seeing the swap there, even if you technically don't need it.
I submit that I did look it up in a dictionary, and fidelity does not mean quality, it means accurate reproduction. It had goddamn better high fidelity if it's a digital system... As I said before they really have nothing to do with eachother. Having digital data accurately reproducing itself is one of the most important parts of being digital.
I've always hated the "fi" part of "wi-fi"... even the "wi" part, but not nearly as much. Fidelity (where the word hi-fi comes from) has to do with the quality of audio. The high-fidelity audio systems of the past sounded more like music, and less like tin cans. Wireless fidelity is... I would say oxymoronic, but the second term isn't contradictory to the first, it just has nothing to do with it.
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Jiga = giga... Back in the old days before processors and memory had the "giga" term that we've come to know and love, some people pronounced the "g" softly, like "j" as in "george", and these words were featured in movies like Back to the Future.
-Jesse
More exotic items like FireWire, USB, and DVD
:) Cool about the company though. It's good to see someone making specific linux-oriented lappys.
Wow, little behind the times?
-Jesse
The article says they're as cheap as a regular alkaline, which is in-turn about 1/3rd the cost of your average rechargable NiMH; that's the benefit.
-Jesse
Now, IR cameras allow you to scrutinize every movement, even in darkness.
-Jesse
I can't believe you people. You either thought I was joking or flamebaiting? I'm completely serious. You lose no freedoms being stopped by a police officer, to see what's going on. If he was going through your stuff, that's one thing, but It's perfectly free, and 100% American for the police to ask people what they're doing, and I for one am glad they do it. If you were walking instead of traveling in a car, and a cop politely asked what you were doing, would you see that as a violation of your freedoms? It's the same in a car, you just have to pull over so you can chat. Jeez you guys are uptight.
-Jesse
That's what police are supposed to do, and I for one am glad they do it. I'll gladly put up with 1-2 minutes of my time for the officer to discover my car isn't stolen, and I'm not carrying drugs/weapons if he catches the next guy who is. I don't see it as an invasion of any rights or privacy of mine either, if you're thinking that. It's public roads, and I'm glad they're policed properly. I only wish that it would stop there, and not continue onto other things that I fear it's headed for (manditory ID checks, passports state-to-state, etc).
-Jesse
That's our final answer, NASA.
-Jesse
I don't blame them at all. It's a stupid law, knee-jerk reaction to something that's perfectly fair; I blame the stupid politicians and hippies that brought about this law. To compare to the wild west days, say that I bought all the property along the coast of california for dirt cheap when it was first claimed by the US. If there was a law passed that said you can't buy land like that, that would be retarded. You could say it was greed driving it, but I say it's smart thinking. If someone offered me $500 for an acre of seafront land, it would be retarded to sue me if I accepted, saying that I was only squatting on that land, waiting to sell it at a higher price; no shit. That's capitalism.
-Jesse
Yeah, that's why I had the asterisk. If the domain was really high-profile, it might be cheaper in legal fees than to buy it outright. I was more just curious about the stupidity of the damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't law (damned if you actually _did_ want to sell the URL, and weren't just squatting).
-Jesse
What happens if I actually wanted to sell the domain? If say; they offered me $500 for the domain, I would accept the offer. Could they then turn around (again, if they wanted to be bastardly) and slap me with a "cybersquatting" suit, and try to get the domain for *free, because I accepted their offer?
*free barring legal fees, which I'm ignoring just for the sake of argument.
-Jesse
I have a question about the "cybersquatting" portion of the article. From what I understand, they can "get" you legally if you offer to sell the domain.
I own cantarafamily.net. Say hypothetically, there was a doctor's office called "Cantara Family Medicine" and they wanted to buy my domain. Could I be brought up on "cybersquatting" charges if I offer to sell it to them (if the company wanted to be bastardly)? I would offer to sell it to something legitimate if it was a reasonable offer. All I have at that domain is just my family photos 'n stuff. Would I be SOL if they decided to sue me?
-Jesse
No big deal :) If she can't put up with me spending time doing fun things I like, she can go suck eggs.
:D
I wouldn't want to date someone like that
Honestly though, the girl and I do spend a ton of time together, and watching TV just isn't on the list of stuff we want to do. We're well suited for eachother.
-Jesse
I've actually been out of school for almost 2 years now (I was young for my class) :) Still haven't had a TV. I still don't have enough time in the day to get stuff done. I'm either hanging out with the girl, or chatting online, or listening to music, or working on my car, or playing with electronics. I don't know where I could fit TV into it. If I'm staying over the girl's house for the night, I will squeeze in Futurama from 11:30 to midnight, but that's cutting pretty steeply into my already trimmed sleep schedule.
-Jesse
D'oh. That's what I get for not reading at -1 :D
-Jesse
The MS Game "Allegiance" was actually 100% open-sourced by MS a while ago, just for your info too. I know it's not a document format, but MS (especially the developers section) does open-source stuff on occasion.
-Jesse
I have a girlfriend. I'm only 23, so no to the first and last ones.
-Jesse
That reminds me of one of my favorite bash quotes:
Capitalization is the difference between:
I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.
and
I helped my uncle jack off a horse.
I salute you!
-Jesse
Nope. I don't own one single DVD. I don't, and never have owned a DVD player, and probably never will. I also don't have a TV or a cellphone. Good TV/Movies are so few and far between that it's not worth it to get either.
-Jesse
Using Eagle is the sign of I don't pirate things, and need a free tool to do small PCBs with that works under Linux and isn't "PCB" which sucks. Eagle does just fine for hobby work. I don't design PCBs at work, but I am an EE.
-Jesse
I have no other choice, because the lemming-like "masses" have already been duped into buying all DRMed stuff, and buying/selling non-DRMed hardware is illegal, and comes with a 30 year jail sentence, and I've become nothing but a hollow shell of an old man/corporate consumer.
-Jesse
I don't have the details handy, but running a swap, even if RAM is bountiful and plenty is always a good idea. It's something to the effect of the system really likes seeing the swap there, even if you technically don't need it.
-Jesse
Slashdotted... Why do they even bother linking to a page full of images?
-Jesse
Who does that make the bigger loser, you or the guy who beat you to it, hahahah :D
-Jesse
I submit that I did look it up in a dictionary, and fidelity does not mean quality, it means accurate reproduction. It had goddamn better high fidelity if it's a digital system... As I said before they really have nothing to do with eachother. Having digital data accurately reproducing itself is one of the most important parts of being digital.
-Jesse
I've always hated the "fi" part of "wi-fi"... even the "wi" part, but not nearly as much. Fidelity (where the word hi-fi comes from) has to do with the quality of audio. The high-fidelity audio systems of the past sounded more like music, and less like tin cans. Wireless fidelity is... I would say oxymoronic, but the second term isn't contradictory to the first, it just has nothing to do with it.
-Jesse