I have been using this shaving oil for probably close to a decade now. I use it with regular multi-blade razors, after I scrape off the soap-based lube-strip on them. I can go for about 6 months averaging about 5 shaves per week on a single blade cartridge. I go through one little bottle of oil about once per year - and I use about twice their recommended amount of oil.
The key thing is to have lots of water, so I shave in the shower with one of those fog-free mirrors.
Got started using it when an ex tried it out to shave her legs and above. She still uses the same stuff today too.
The guys who make ceramic kitchen knives - Kyocera - had something about ceramic shaving blades on their website - they still might, but I am too lazy to dig for it. They said that the edge was too sharp, metal blades tend to have a rounded edge at the micro-level, but ceramic blades just have corners. The end result was that in their testing they found that men cut their faces a whole lot more with the ceramic blades than the old fashioned kind.
I hope slashdot has got heaping big bags of money. Because you just copied the entire content of four copyrighted works onto the front page of a commercial, for profit website - ain't no way you can hide behind the fair use defense on this one.
At $250,000 per violation, that will be One MILLION DOLLARS!
I'll be happy to accept the fine as proxy for Wired. Just to make things go smoothly, you understand, right?
I think that says it all. Pirated music is just a slightly bigger problem than illegal fishing.
I don't know how much 'legal' vs 'illegal' has to do with it, but in recent years almost all fishing grounds world-wide have seen severe reductions in population.
Isn't address segmenting a throwback to the old 8086 days anyway? I used to have to deal with 64kb segmented addresses back in the day, and I can say it was a horrible PITA.
Not necessarily. HP-UX on PA and presumably Itanic uses segments (they call them quadrants because they divide the address space into 4 equally sized segments) which makes some things a lot simpler and faster in the kernel. For example, quadrants usually break down as text vs data or shared vs private. By limiting shared pages to a specific quadrant, the kernel can "know" if a page is shared just by looking at its virtual address. That's a lot less record keeping required and thus some operations are a lot faster. When you have 64-bit processes and each segment is up in the terabyte size, almost all of the nightmarish segmentation problems from the old 16-bit days go away but you still get to keep most of the benefits.
What? You can still drink in the navy? After they took away the porn from the bases and the local legal prostitutes from off the bases, seemed like a stint in the military wasn't much different from a stint in the big house.
to use a dark night-time satellite image as proof to bolster that assumption, is pretty ignorant and Amer-Euro-centric[TM].
Hello, McFly?
It ain't a western presumption, its a modern-world-centric presumption. Even most 3rd world countries put out a lot of light in their cities and all the 1st and 2nd world countries are bright and shiny light bulbs.
And keep in mind that investments in technology need not necessarily compete with investments in farming or healthcare.
It is more than simply not compete - they complement each other.
For example, the local farmer with net access via a town internet cafe is able to find out about potential markets for his crops that are much further away and possibly much more lucrative than a farmer with no network access could ever hope to.
You're getting into useless semantics instead of focusing on his actual point.
The "useless semantics" are what matter here.
The OCGuy doesn't get it that the GPL license is not for other developers, it is for the end user. The GPL guarantees that the code will never be used in any product that the end user is locked out of, it guarantees MORE freedom to the end user than the BSD licenses do.
The BSD lets you do what you want, while the GPL license defines Stallman's personal definition of "free" and then imposes it on you, which isn't freedom at all.
You again. You are to GPL articles like Krell is to Islam articles - always making ridiculous, unsupportable claims in cute little sound-bites of vapidity. Just like Krell, no matter how often you are corrected, you can be counted on to spout the same tired old baloney in the next story on the GPL. Sure makes it easy to rebutt you, I can even use the same response I used last time.
The GPL does not impose anything, it is the author of the software who choose what rules to impose on the people he gives his software too. The GPL is just one pre-defined set of rules that an author may choose to use. RMS ain't making the author chose a single one of the rules in the GPL, the author is completely free to choose whatever rules he likes.
Don't like the author's choice? You are FREE to use some other code instead.
Do you understand the reason people insert the latin word "sic" when they include quotations?
I'll give you a hint, it does not mean "spelled incorrectly."
The use of "sic" is indication to the reader that all though the quotation looks funny, it really was originally written thus. On slashdot, when all you are doing is quoting the damn post you are responding to, there is no question of the accuracy of the quote, anyone can click on "parent" and read the original themselves.
When you use it the way you have, all you do is call attention to yourself as a pseudo-intellectual spelling nazi. So quit waving your e-penis around and put it back in your pants, it isn't anything to be proud of in the first place.
I mean, I'm not sure of the details of the current system, but is the software available before the election?
Of course it is available before the election, they don't just code it up on the spot.
Just because it is not widely available does not mean it is not available to a sufficiently motivated organization. When you consider the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on campaigning, it is not hard at all to envision a situation in which an insider is offered a couple of million dollars to provide "early access" to the code. It is no giant leap from that to paying an insider a couple of million dollars to insert some specific code into the system too.
You gave him the ability to listen to it, which was yours, and to give it away further -- which was not
Lol. What part of "nothing going away" was so difficult to grasp? I gave away the abilty for him to give it away? A self-referential definition is no definition at all.
As an aside, a future where the only music is that commissioned by movie moguls and television producers seems terrible.
Hello? That is the world you live in today.
The 'recording studios' pay a commission (the advance) to the artists with the additional condition that in the unlikely event that end sales exceed a certain stratospheric amount, that the artist will receive further payments (royalties). Only a handful of the highest earning bands ever sell enough to earn royalties that end up in the bank. Thus, almost everything available to you via the major commercial distribution systems is commissioned by people who don't care an once about the music itself, only its value as a (re)sellable product.
"Fellow traveler" is a term with very explicit conotations. It is just about impossible to use without implying communism. If that was not your intent, I apologize for the accusation.
fits nicely with whole ethos of the malware authors and their fellow travelers.
Cute dig at the Free software supporters. Ya got balls to make it so blatant right in the middle of the enemy camp here on slashdot. Just for the record, Free software is NOT communisim any more than copyright is communisim, and nothing about Free software is sympathetic to malware.
whatever your hate-filled heart predicts for US, we are wealthy now
Lol! It's 2006 man, "Why do you hate America?" is so passe. I suggest sticking to the tried and true, like drinkypoo needs to think of the children, you know the classic personal attacks never go out of style.
Call me crazy here, but wouldn't you wanna take advantage of *both* lossy and lossless compression techniques to get the smallest file with the best sound quality? It's not one or the other.. is it?
Lossless compression is applied to the results of the lossy compression, it would not be useful to do it the other way around. The result is that low entropy in the original data does not necessarily translate to low entropy in the results of the lossy stage.
Lossy audio compression is not about entropy - i.e. information theory - it is about psychoacoustic modeling. In other words, it is about trying to throw away data that the human brain would throw away anyway. Thus your idea is probably highly unlikely to work in practice - when listening to a solo instrument, the human brain will be more 'focused' and probably throw away less data than when listening to a complete mix of instruments and vocals. Thus, in order to achieve relatively the same level of quality the total size of two discrete tracks compressed with mp3 is likely to be larger than even six tracks mixed together and then compressed with mp3.
large companies almost ALWAYS ruin smaller ones when they buy them (out).
But, sometimes that leads to excellent sales. Like when Rio bought the empegcar player. It had been selling for like $2000, but when Rio cancelled it, they had a firesale and you could pick them up for like $200.
Oddly enough, slim's new "transporter" is also $2000. Here's to Logitech cancelling it and dumping inventory for 90% off MSRP! I'll buy two if that happens.
Slashdot Mirror
The only kind of anti-fog mirror that works is one that circulates the water behind it to keep the temperature differential to a minimum.
I have been using this shaving oil for probably close to a decade now. I use it with regular multi-blade razors, after I scrape off the soap-based lube-strip on them. I can go for about 6 months averaging about 5 shaves per week on a single blade cartridge. I go through one little bottle of oil about once per year - and I use about twice their recommended amount of oil.
The key thing is to have lots of water, so I shave in the shower with one of those fog-free mirrors.
Got started using it when an ex tried it out to shave her legs and above. She still uses the same stuff today too.
The guys who make ceramic kitchen knives - Kyocera - had something about ceramic shaving blades on their website - they still might, but I am too lazy to dig for it. They said that the edge was too sharp, metal blades tend to have a rounded edge at the micro-level, but ceramic blades just have corners. The end result was that in their testing they found that men cut their faces a whole lot more with the ceramic blades than the old fashioned kind.
Last man on Earth hears doorbell.
I hope slashdot has got heaping big bags of money. Because you just copied the entire content of four copyrighted works onto the front page of a commercial, for profit website - ain't no way you can hide behind the fair use defense on this one.
At $250,000 per violation, that will be One MILLION DOLLARS!
I'll be happy to accept the fine as proxy for Wired. Just to make things go smoothly, you understand, right?
I think that says it all. Pirated music is just a slightly bigger problem than illegal fishing.
I don't know how much 'legal' vs 'illegal' has to do with it, but in recent years almost all fishing grounds world-wide have seen severe reductions in population.
Isn't address segmenting a throwback to the old 8086 days anyway? I used to have to deal with 64kb segmented addresses back in the day, and I can say it was a horrible PITA.
Not necessarily. HP-UX on PA and presumably Itanic uses segments (they call them quadrants because they divide the address space into 4 equally sized segments) which makes some things a lot simpler and faster in the kernel. For example, quadrants usually break down as text vs data or shared vs private. By limiting shared pages to a specific quadrant, the kernel can "know" if a page is shared just by looking at its virtual address. That's a lot less record keeping required and thus some operations are a lot faster. When you have 64-bit processes and each segment is up in the terabyte size, almost all of the nightmarish segmentation problems from the old 16-bit days go away but you still get to keep most of the benefits.
What? You can still drink in the navy? After they took away the porn from the bases and the local legal prostitutes from off the bases, seemed like a stint in the military wasn't much different from a stint in the big house.
to use a dark night-time satellite image as proof to bolster that assumption, is pretty ignorant and Amer-Euro-centric[TM].
Hello, McFly?
It ain't a western presumption, its a modern-world-centric presumption. Even most 3rd world countries put out a lot of light in their cities and all the 1st and 2nd world countries are bright and shiny light bulbs.
And keep in mind that investments in technology need not necessarily compete with investments in farming or healthcare.
It is more than simply not compete - they complement each other.
For example, the local farmer with net access via a town internet cafe is able to find out about potential markets for his crops that are much further away and possibly much more lucrative than a farmer with no network access could ever hope to.
You're getting into useless semantics instead of focusing on his actual point.
The "useless semantics" are what matter here.
The OCGuy doesn't get it that the GPL license is not for other developers, it is for the end user. The GPL guarantees that the code will never be used in any product that the end user is locked out of, it guarantees MORE freedom to the end user than the BSD licenses do.
The BSD lets you do what you want, while the GPL license defines Stallman's personal definition of "free" and then imposes it on you, which isn't freedom at all.
You again. You are to GPL articles like Krell is to Islam articles - always making ridiculous, unsupportable claims in cute little sound-bites of vapidity. Just like Krell, no matter how often you are corrected, you can be counted on to spout the same tired old baloney in the next story on the GPL. Sure makes it easy to rebutt you, I can even use the same response I used last time.
The GPL does not impose anything, it is the author of the software who choose what rules to impose on the people he gives his software too. The GPL is just one pre-defined set of rules that an author may choose to use. RMS ain't making the author chose a single one of the rules in the GPL, the author is completely free to choose whatever rules he likes.
Don't like the author's choice? You are FREE to use some other code instead.
[sic]
Do you understand the reason people insert the latin word "sic" when they include quotations?
I'll give you a hint, it does not mean "spelled incorrectly."
The use of "sic" is indication to the reader that all though the quotation looks funny, it really was originally written thus. On slashdot, when all you are doing is quoting the damn post you are responding to, there is no question of the accuracy of the quote, anyone can click on "parent" and read the original themselves.
When you use it the way you have, all you do is call attention to yourself as a pseudo-intellectual spelling nazi. So quit waving your e-penis around and put it back in your pants, it isn't anything to be proud of in the first place.
I mean, I'm not sure of the details of the current system, but is the software available before the election?
Of course it is available before the election, they don't just code it up on the spot.
Just because it is not widely available does not mean it is not available to a sufficiently motivated organization. When you consider the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on campaigning, it is not hard at all to envision a situation in which an insider is offered a couple of million dollars to provide "early access" to the code. It is no giant leap from that to paying an insider a couple of million dollars to insert some specific code into the system too.
You gave him the ability to listen to it, which was yours, and to give it away further -- which was not
Lol. What part of "nothing going away" was so difficult to grasp? I gave away the abilty for him to give it away? A self-referential definition is no definition at all.
As an aside, a future where the only music is that commissioned by movie moguls and television producers seems terrible.
Hello? That is the world you live in today.
The 'recording studios' pay a commission (the advance) to the artists with the additional condition that in the unlikely event that end sales exceed a certain stratospheric amount, that the artist will receive further payments (royalties). Only a handful of the highest earning bands ever sell enough to earn royalties that end up in the bank. Thus, almost everything available to you via the major commercial distribution systems is commissioned by people who don't care an once about the music itself, only its value as a (re)sellable product.
Which part of the "nor give away something, that is not yours" was so difficult to grasp?
Gee, I don't see anything going away. That song my friend just copied is still right here.
By now only idiots and fools with axes to grind try to apply the 'rules' of physical things to non-rivalrous and non-excludable things.
"Fellow traveler" is a term with very explicit conotations. It is just about impossible to use without implying communism. If that was not your intent, I apologize for the accusation.
fits nicely with whole ethos of the malware authors and their fellow travelers.
Cute dig at the Free software supporters. Ya got balls to make it so blatant right in the middle of the enemy camp here on slashdot. Just for the record, Free software is NOT communisim any more than copyright is communisim, and nothing about Free software is sympathetic to malware.
whatever your hate-filled heart predicts for US, we are wealthy now
Lol! It's 2006 man, "Why do you hate America?" is so passe. I suggest sticking to the tried and true, like drinkypoo needs to think of the children, you know the classic personal attacks never go out of style.
but you will not have access to their's. Asymmetrical.
That's not just asymmetrical, it's Asymmerican!
Call me crazy here, but wouldn't you wanna take advantage of *both* lossy and lossless compression techniques to get the smallest file with the best sound quality? It's not one or the other.. is it?
Lossless compression is applied to the results of the lossy compression, it would not be useful to do it the other way around. The result is that low entropy in the original data does not necessarily translate to low entropy in the results of the lossy stage.
there's a lot less entropy in each track
Lossy audio compression is not about entropy - i.e. information theory - it is about psychoacoustic modeling. In other words, it is about trying to throw away data that the human brain would throw away anyway. Thus your idea is probably highly unlikely to work in practice - when listening to a solo instrument, the human brain will be more 'focused' and probably throw away less data than when listening to a complete mix of instruments and vocals. Thus, in order to achieve relatively the same level of quality the total size of two discrete tracks compressed with mp3 is likely to be larger than even six tracks mixed together and then compressed with mp3.
large companies almost ALWAYS ruin smaller ones when they buy them (out).
But, sometimes that leads to excellent sales. Like when Rio bought the empegcar player. It had been selling for like $2000, but when Rio cancelled it, they had a firesale and you could pick them up for like $200.
Oddly enough, slim's new "transporter" is also $2000. Here's to Logitech cancelling it and dumping inventory for 90% off MSRP! I'll buy two if that happens.