Social Security, Medicare, and any of the current universal health care proposals will fail and do nothing but line the pocket of large corporations while the US still pays more than any other country for its health care. What is needed to make universal health care work is PRICE CONTROLS. Yet no one seems to be talking about this. Price controls is why prescription drugs are cheaper in Canada, and why other countries don't pay as much for medical care.
Another reason is that the AMA is a bunch of crooks who keep prices artificially high by strictly limiting how many people go into the medical profession. Their sole purpose is to protect their guild.
It would just need to be published in another jurisdiction. Contrary to the delusions of the Bush administration, the rest of the world is not a colony of the USA. The same applies to other countries. Thankfully we don't have a "world government" yet (although things are moving that way, unfortunately).
Yeah, it would be great to have something like a local cache of what has been played on the internet radio stream you are listening to.
You could set something up like this using Streamripper using the -r relay server option and a cron job that runs a shell script to delete saved music files older than a certain amount of time.
Ideally, it would be nice to have a little graphical application to flag the songs you like so you could save them. Maybe it could write out a list of files to save and then those could be excluded when the delete script runs or something.
Hmm...I might need to play around with this. A little QTPython app, a shell script, and a cron job should be easy to set up.
Copyright and trademark are entirely different things. IANAL but I'm quite certain that at least in the USA you cannot lose copyright by not prosecuting cases of infringement. Trademark on the other hand, can be lost if it isn't "protected".
I agree with you Dominic that 256 kbps AAC may sound fine. But what if you want to play it on a device that doesn't support AAC? If you re-encode a lossy format it may not sound so good anymore. I rip my cds to FLAC so that I have a choice later in what format I want to listen to the music in. A simple shell script is all that is needed to convert a directory full of flac files to MP3 or Ogg. Disk space and bandwidth are cheap, but rebuying music in another format is not.
The key things to look for on the new tv are "ATSC" which is the digital OTA replacement for NTSC, and "QAM", which is for cable (unencrypted digital).
I replaced a 1980s 27" RCA with an new 27" Magnavox with a digital tuner a few months ago for under $250 US. The picture for the over-the-air digital stations is pretty awesome compared to the old RCA, even in SD.
Yes, this is suprisingly stupid move on Novell's part. SuSe has always been primarily a KDE distro. I really like SuSe 10.0 and was even considering buying stock in Novell, but not now after this announcement. I guess I'll either just stay on 10.0 for a long while and not upgrade, or will go back to Mandrake/Mandriva.
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Social Security, Medicare, and any of the current universal health care proposals will fail and do nothing but line the pocket of large corporations while the US still pays more than any other country for its health care. What is needed to make universal health care work is PRICE CONTROLS. Yet no one seems to be talking about this. Price controls is why prescription drugs are cheaper in Canada, and why other countries don't pay as much for medical care. Another reason is that the AMA is a bunch of crooks who keep prices artificially high by strictly limiting how many people go into the medical profession. Their sole purpose is to protect their guild.
It would just need to be published in another jurisdiction. Contrary to the delusions of the Bush administration, the rest of the world is not a colony of the USA. The same applies to other countries. Thankfully we don't have a "world government" yet (although things are moving that way, unfortunately).
Oracle HRMS + iRecruitment would do the job.
Yeah, it would be great to have something like a local cache of what has been played on the internet radio stream you are listening to.
You could set something up like this using Streamripper using the -r relay server option and a cron job that runs a shell script to delete saved music files older than a certain amount of time.
Ideally, it would be nice to have a little graphical application to flag the songs you like so you could save them. Maybe it could write out a list of files to save and then those could be excluded when the delete script runs or something.
Hmm...I might need to play around with this. A little QTPython app, a shell script, and a cron job should be easy to set up.
Copyright and trademark are entirely different things. IANAL but I'm quite certain that at least in the USA you cannot lose copyright by not prosecuting cases of infringement. Trademark on the other hand, can be lost if it isn't "protected".
I agree with you Dominic that 256 kbps AAC may sound fine. But what if you want to play it on a device that doesn't support AAC? If you re-encode a lossy format it may not sound so good anymore. I rip my cds to FLAC so that I have a choice later in what format I want to listen to the music in. A simple shell script is all that is needed to convert a directory full of flac files to MP3 or Ogg. Disk space and bandwidth are cheap, but rebuying music in another format is not.
SD=Standard Definition TV (480i), as opposed to High Definition (1080i, etc.) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-definition_t elevision
Sorry about the confusion!
The key things to look for on the new tv are "ATSC" which is the digital OTA replacement for NTSC, and "QAM", which is for cable (unencrypted digital). I replaced a 1980s 27" RCA with an new 27" Magnavox with a digital tuner a few months ago for under $250 US. The picture for the over-the-air digital stations is pretty awesome compared to the old RCA, even in SD.
Yes, this is suprisingly stupid move on Novell's part. SuSe has always been primarily a KDE distro. I really like SuSe 10.0 and was even considering buying stock in Novell, but not now after this announcement. I guess I'll either just stay on 10.0 for a long while and not upgrade, or will go back to Mandrake/Mandriva.
Summer heat is not a big problem. I have a PC (800Mhz AMD Duron) running in my garage in Dallas and have not had any problems.