Bungie did not announce any release date until E3. Personally, I just got an Xbox and I was kind of afraid it would be pointless since Xbox Next might come soon, but then I thought, "Well hell, if I can play Halo and Halo 2 on it will be worth it.":)
I might be mistaken, but aren't the now ubiquitous 80 minute CDs contrary to the redbook standard? After all, my first generation Discman does have problems with 74+ minute CDs.
Intentionally and explicitly inciting illegal action is already illegal. If you start banning things that might cause people to do illegal things, I guess Nazis can't have websites or play Grand Theft Auto. Besides, the whole idea of permitting free speech on utilitarian grounds is contrary to the idea that it is a fundamental human right.
However, it seems rather small-minded to think that we'll never see a world government at some point that is strong and capapble of providing for the needs of everyone on the planet.
Small-minded? Personally, I would call it sane. I would not be surprised if a strong world government ever arose, but if it did I would sure as hell want to move to another planet. The greater concentration of power you have, the more corruption there is.
You say that it would be havoc for everyone to go to D.C. and shout their opinions, but it would be less bad if they could go to their state capital or their town hall (which is fortunately often the case). I believe in having a strong federal government, but in the U.S. we are getting much closer to a national government.
In fact, due to the 21st amendment, interstate transport of alcohol is in state hands and excepted from the federal government's otherwise carte blanche power over interstate commerce.
Nobody needs an audio format that has a frequency range of more than 40kHz anyway because they can't hear the difference. You can only hear up to 20kHz, and you only need twice that because of the Nyquist theorem. What people need is good engineers mixing and mastering at ludicrous frequency ranges and then dithering it to something reasonable. Even though sound is also mixed at higher (and often floating point) bitrates, having 24-bit sound for the consumer would be more practical since it offers a wider dynamic range. Not that any rap or pop music has a dynamic range:)
The future of computing is closed architecture--millions of cats in closed boxes. Of course the first cat computer will be enormous like ENIAC on account of the space taken up by so many cats, but eventually we will learn to shrink cats at a rate defined by Moore's Feline Law until they are so small that it is not certain whether or not they are uncertain as they should be, or merely certain. This is called the Uncertainty Recursion Problem, and is discussed here.
TV executives couldn't give a crap about what anybody thinks. Why? Because they want money. But if nobody watches their shows or even worse boycotts products from advertisers on a show, they lose money. This is something they understand very well.
British Telecom has taken the unprecedented step of blocking all illegal child pornography websites . . . .
Really? They have a list of all the kiddie porn sites? I know "British Telecom decides to block illegal child pornography websites" might not sound as catchy, but it's also a tad less untrue. Before you know it BT will take the very rational and agreeable step of blocking all spam.
You can use IE for Mac, though I honestly don't know why you'd want to. 99% of the Mac IE users probably just used it because it was the default, but now that Safari is the default I bet neither the nerds nor the lusers use it en masse.
Actually the Scientologists got pissed off because their ubersecret documents which you have to spend years and thousands of dollars to get to are now a matter of public record since they were evidence in court.
I work for a bulk mailer, and have actually gotten a letter that I printed. It was kind of weird since it did go straight into my trash can.
Before everyone finds photos of my house and comes to beat me up, at least let me say that we only send to people already on mailing lists 99% of the time. The only real junk mail I've sent was ironically from a guy in a pyramid scheme trying to sell people...mailing lists! He called to complain after not one person responded to his mail. I guess he was at the bottom of the pyramid:)
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1. Do nothing
2. Ban them
3. Make tons of money off taxes and lawsuits
Now that I think of it, it would make sense to legalize marijuana then sue the shit out of the marijuana companies for selling a harmful product :)
Kind of off-topic, but Deep Impact was a kind of sappy but tolerable movie, whereas Armageddon was one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever seen.
Bungie did not announce any release date until E3. Personally, I just got an Xbox and I was kind of afraid it would be pointless since Xbox Next might come soon, but then I thought, "Well hell, if I can play Halo and Halo 2 on it will be worth it." :)
I might be mistaken, but aren't the now ubiquitous 80 minute CDs contrary to the redbook standard? After all, my first generation Discman does have problems with 74+ minute CDs.
Retain counts and the NSAutoreleasePool beat garbage collection AND manual allocation imho :)
Being a jerk isn't always bad, like when he got fired from Disney :)
Intentionally and explicitly inciting illegal action is already illegal. If you start banning things that might cause people to do illegal things, I guess Nazis can't have websites or play Grand Theft Auto. Besides, the whole idea of permitting free speech on utilitarian grounds is contrary to the idea that it is a fundamental human right.
Small-minded? Personally, I would call it sane. I would not be surprised if a strong world government ever arose, but if it did I would sure as hell want to move to another planet. The greater concentration of power you have, the more corruption there is.
You say that it would be havoc for everyone to go to D.C. and shout their opinions, but it would be less bad if they could go to their state capital or their town hall (which is fortunately often the case). I believe in having a strong federal government, but in the U.S. we are getting much closer to a national government.
You insensitive clod! /. users don't use eevil .gifs :)
In fact, due to the 21st amendment, interstate transport of alcohol is in state hands and excepted from the federal government's otherwise carte blanche power over interstate commerce.
You forgot to mention that dithering affects bitdepth and not sampling rate. I guess I should get my stuff together a bit more before I post :)
Nobody needs an audio format that has a frequency range of more than 40kHz anyway because they can't hear the difference. You can only hear up to 20kHz, and you only need twice that because of the Nyquist theorem. What people need is good engineers mixing and mastering at ludicrous frequency ranges and then dithering it to something reasonable. Even though sound is also mixed at higher (and often floating point) bitrates, having 24-bit sound for the consumer would be more practical since it offers a wider dynamic range. Not that any rap or pop music has a dynamic range :)
Yeah, you can overclock your processor to 50THz but the electrons will only move at 2 mph :)
The future of computing is closed architecture--millions of cats in closed boxes. Of course the first cat computer will be enormous like ENIAC on account of the space taken up by so many cats, but eventually we will learn to shrink cats at a rate defined by Moore's Feline Law until they are so small that it is not certain whether or not they are uncertain as they should be, or merely certain. This is called the Uncertainty Recursion Problem, and is discussed here.
I guess I can't even use my good old scytale anymore :)
Sort of. The duck-billed platypus is the mascot of Darwin.
The Supreme Court IMHO hasn't been strictly Constitution-centric since Marbury v. Madison.
TV executives couldn't give a crap about what anybody thinks. Why? Because they want money. But if nobody watches their shows or even worse boycotts products from advertisers on a show, they lose money. This is something they understand very well.
Funnier would be if the original Slashdot article on Nigritude Ultramarine won the contest.
Really? They have a list of all the kiddie porn sites? I know "British Telecom decides to block illegal child pornography websites" might not sound as catchy, but it's also a tad less untrue. Before you know it BT will take the very rational and agreeable step of blocking all spam.
You can use IE for Mac, though I honestly don't know why you'd want to. 99% of the Mac IE users probably just used it because it was the default, but now that Safari is the default I bet neither the nerds nor the lusers use it en masse.
I don't read much Japanese, but the first word I picked up after "yes" was "shit." I'd bet good money it'll be translated as "darn."
You could install Darwin at least.
Actually the Scientologists got pissed off because their ubersecret documents which you have to spend years and thousands of dollars to get to are now a matter of public record since they were evidence in court.
Before everyone finds photos of my house and comes to beat me up, at least let me say that we only send to people already on mailing lists 99% of the time. The only real junk mail I've sent was ironically from a guy in a pyramid scheme trying to sell people...mailing lists! He called to complain after not one person responded to his mail. I guess he was at the bottom of the pyramid :)