Farmers reply to my site was a C&D letter threatening doom if I didn't run away. A few hours on findlaw and I'm fairly certain I'm in the clear. Too bad they (farmers) don't understand there is more to loose by being assholes. If they had let me be the site would have likely died when the 1 year registration ran out. Now I'm going to hold on to that domain like a bitter asshat forever. It's amazing how much you enjoy free speech and how much you under respected the first amendment until someone tries to take it away from you.
I know this is going to qualify for -1 nitpick, but: If a gas station was selling gasoline with sugar in it (very bad for your car engine) It's only bad for the fuel filter and possibly the pump. Sugar is not soluable in petrol, thus it would simply clog the fuel filter. (powdered sugar _may_ be a different story, but I havn't tried that yet.) -nB
"When the situation is intolerable however, what's left to lose?"
In my case, my life. I was working in the same department as a manager who was an ex cop for apartheid South Aferica. He was a complete sadist and had gone so far as to pull a knife on me once. When I complained things only got worse, so I left. I can only hope that he burns in hell for the things he has bragged about doing. -nB
"If everything inside you is screaming "leave this job," then you should probably do it"
I didn't follow my gut's advice for over a year and was miserable. I finally told my boss I was leaving and if he was nice about it I would remain available for a period of time after my departure. If he was a dick about it or if I was classified as non-rehirable I was gone for good. I've never been happier or felt more liberated than my last week there when people tried adding new tasks to my stack and failed.
What should be very interesting to watch is Intel's change in CEO's. The existing CEO (Craig Barrett)is still an engeneer at heart, while the up coming CEO is from the marketing side of the company. -nB
Are you for real? You're talking about _digital_ transmission. It is lossless (as far as audio fidelity). The only way USB vs firewire will make a differance is if you use the cable for your headphones (even then I'm not sure you'd notice). -nB
Nitpicking a small portion of your response: "Would you be offended if your child were forced to pray to Allah before every school event? Stop acting like it's only offensive when other people do it." The point is that he (and/or his or anyone's kids) is not forced to say it. The child can stand or sit and stay mute; the parent can ask that their child be allowed to leave the room during the pledge. He brought this suite in poor faith, that being the primary reason I'd like to smack him.
One nation, under God, indivisible is not practicing religion, not teaching religion, not promoting religion. If it were then separation of church and state should extend to our currency and founding documents. I myself am not largely religious, never the less I am not in favor of his attention seeking suit. -nB
Funny, As I've been reading this it's all been with the umbrella of _broadcast_ HD content, not cable.
Let me check: From TFA: The rule requires manufacturers of television sets that receive digital over-the-air broadcast signals to produce sets that can read the digital code by July 1 of this year. Yup, it's only over-the-air that this relates to. You're nicely off topic. -nB
Like what's-his-name asshole Nudow (Sp?) challenging the pledge of alligence from Sac. CA? God, I would love to smack him around, but for some reason the cops would give me grief over that. -nB
The reason ethernet USB adapters get such crappy performance is that you're trying to convert from one packet interface to another. the overhead kills you. If you run TCP/IP over USB (no ethernet) they you'll get around 6Mbps, and if you go for a native protocol and unidirectional (streaming, UDP equiv) you should see very close to the top speed possible. -nB
No crack here. I was stating the USB 1.1 spec. After overhead I'd expect 2-3Mbps throughput. the post I was responding to made it sound like USB was limited to 1.5Mbps, which it is not.:/ -nB
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No kidding. I could keep the iPod in my pocket stuffed with tunes, and simply use a USB thumb drive. . . which I already do, using BartPE.
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That's the first thing that crossed my mind when I read the summary. The only thing interesting would be if it didn't follow the obvious path.
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" Dammit I can't vote on your site!!!"
Sorry 'bout that.
Fixed. The site's only been up 20 days or so.
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Farmers reply to my site was a C&D letter threatening doom if I didn't run away. A few hours on findlaw and I'm fairly certain I'm in the clear. Too bad they (farmers) don't understand there is more to loose by being assholes. If they had let me be the site would have likely died when the 1 year registration ran out. Now I'm going to hold on to that domain like a bitter asshat forever. It's amazing how much you enjoy free speech and how much you under respected the first amendment until someone tries to take it away from you.
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See link in sig :-) :heh:
well timed story.
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I know this is going to qualify for -1 nitpick, but:
If a gas station was selling gasoline with sugar in it (very bad for your car engine)
It's only bad for the fuel filter and possibly the pump. Sugar is not soluable in petrol, thus it would simply clog the fuel filter. (powdered sugar _may_ be a different story, but I havn't tried that yet.)
-nB
"When the situation is intolerable however, what's left to lose?"
In my case, my life.
I was working in the same department as a manager who was an ex cop for apartheid South Aferica. He was a complete sadist and had gone so far as to pull a knife on me once. When I complained things only got worse, so I left. I can only hope that he burns in hell for the things he has bragged about doing.
-nB
That's pretty much how things went too; hence the entertainment value.
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"If everything inside you is screaming "leave this job," then you should probably do it"
I didn't follow my gut's advice for over a year and was miserable. I finally told my boss I was leaving and if he was nice about it I would remain available for a period of time after my departure. If he was a dick about it or if I was classified as non-rehirable I was gone for good. I've never been happier or felt more liberated than my last week there when people tried adding new tasks to my stack and failed.
-nB
What should be very interesting to watch is Intel's change in CEO's.
The existing CEO (Craig Barrett)is still an engeneer at heart, while the up coming CEO is from the marketing side of the company.
-nB
Analysis:
It's being proposed by a government that spies on its own peoples communications (openly).
Need I say more?
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wow did you miss his joke or what ?!? :-p
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Are you for real?
You're talking about _digital_ transmission. It is lossless (as far as audio fidelity). The only way USB vs firewire will make a differance is if you use the cable for your headphones (even then I'm not sure you'd notice).
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unless they called it a sketch book :-S
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That or a bandwith issue :-)
That's why my acct got suspended once.
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Mine had 256 (K that is and it was VGA)
So... I'd say 32-64K for CGA would be about right.
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VOIP and wireless, now the Drug runners cn listen in on conversations. Remember some of the bigger cartels are funded as well as governments.
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Nitpicking a small portion of your response:
"Would you be offended if your child were forced to pray to Allah before every school event? Stop acting like it's only offensive when other people do it."
The point is that he (and/or his or anyone's kids) is not forced to say it. The child can stand or sit and stay mute; the parent can ask that their child be allowed to leave the room during the pledge. He brought this suite in poor faith, that being the primary reason I'd like to smack him.
One nation, under God, indivisible is not practicing religion, not teaching religion, not promoting religion. If it were then separation of church and state should extend to our currency and founding documents.
I myself am not largely religious, never the less I am not in favor of his attention seeking suit.
-nB
Funny,
As I've been reading this it's all been with the umbrella of _broadcast_ HD content, not cable.
Let me check:
From TFA: The rule requires manufacturers of television sets that receive digital over-the-air broadcast signals to produce sets that can read the digital code by July 1 of this year.
Yup, it's only over-the-air that this relates to. You're nicely off topic.
-nB
Like what's-his-name asshole Nudow (Sp?) challenging the pledge of alligence from Sac. CA?
God, I would love to smack him around, but for some reason the cops would give me grief over that.
-nB
"this is just a shortcut (well, actually &&!= are 4 letters and isNot are 4 letters, but you know what I mean...),"
:-)
isNot != 4 letters
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The reason ethernet USB adapters get such crappy performance is that you're trying to convert from one packet interface to another. the overhead kills you.
If you run TCP/IP over USB (no ethernet) they you'll get around 6Mbps, and if you go for a native protocol and unidirectional (streaming, UDP equiv) you should see very close to the top speed possible.
-nB
No crack here. :/
I was stating the USB 1.1 spec. After overhead I'd expect 2-3Mbps throughput. the post I was responding to made it sound like USB was limited to 1.5Mbps, which it is not.
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Does the GNU FDL (Free documentation license) fit under the GPL in that case?
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12Mbps half duplex actually.
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